00:00Do you remember who his first career start?
00:04Do you remember who the other quarterback was?
00:06It was some fly-by-night, late-round, never-did-nothing-for-nobody-bum.
00:14He's the gamote.
00:15Oh, it was Tom Brady.
00:16Tom Brady on Fox.
00:18We got a new team in the top spot.
00:20Yeah, and you know what?
00:21They were pretty much unheralded all the way through the offseason
00:23because everyone was talking about Seattle and the Rams,
00:26but it's the 49ers at number one.
00:28Why? They're undefeated.
00:30Yeah, we know that, but they have the best point differential in the league.
00:33Brock Purdy's playing as well as anybody.
00:35Should be considered in the Tier 1 QB discussions.
00:37At least he is in my eyes.
00:38Playing within the system, throwing the ball accurately,
00:41no negative plays, getting his team in and out of the right plays.
00:44I love the way that he's managing every single game.
00:46Oof, that's a boom.
00:49When you get Tom Brady to sit down and talk about you that way,
00:53that had to feel like a warm fuzzy to Brock.
00:56I'm sure it was awesome.
00:57I mean, Tom said everything, but he kind of looks like I did at my best.
01:03Because if you think about Tom Brady at his best, it was in the pocket,
01:08look, look, look, boom, boom, boom.
01:10Like, you know, no wasted motion.
01:12I think Brock runs better than Tom.
01:14I don't know if Tom throws a better deep ball than Brock.
01:16I don't remember Tom throwing a ton of deep balls, but Tom was the king of,
01:21okay, I know what you're doing, and I know what we're going to do,
01:24and it's going to work.
01:25So just watch me.
01:26Watch me go.
01:27I think the biggest thing for Brock Purdy and why the public is finally,
01:33like, all seemingly, for the most part, coming around on his play,
01:37the numbers and the wins, and sure, there's all that.
01:41But have you noticed over the last three weeks how many quarterbacks talk about Brock?
01:47Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, Dan Orlovsky, Chase Daniel.
01:53Who am I missing?
01:55The quarterback portion of the media is just, they're smitten.
02:03Smitten right now with the way he's playing football.
02:06And that's pretty hard to argue.
02:08You know, all of us with nacho stains on our shirts while we're watching,
02:12and we're like, I don't know.
02:13I don't know about this guy.
02:15Can't see over the line.
02:17Like, I don't know.
02:20I don't know what to see.
02:21Like, the quarterbacks are smitten with this quarterback.
02:25Right.
02:25They're gushing because what they see is exactly what we all see,
02:29but they're seeing it in a higher level as far as, like, okay,
02:33he's thrown one pick, and he's been sacked zero times.
02:37And through two games, he had an 80% completion percentage,
02:39and he's thrown nine touchdowns, which is tied for first in the league,
02:43and they're 3-0.
02:44So it's hard to not, even at our rudimentary level,
02:48it's hard to not look at it and go, yeah, he's playing great,
02:50he's playing awesome, but when the quarterbacks,
02:53who actually break it down and see it like he sees it,
02:56when they say those things, it has obviously more weight.
02:59We want to go to the phones, but, Grandy, do you want to hop on real quick
03:03and explain the text of why there was a piece of you,
03:07and I think you're going to get your wish, it sounds like,
03:09Brandon Cook's being called up,
03:11certainly suggests that Mike Evans is not going to play.
03:14He worked on the side, but quote-unquote gingerly today.
03:17I don't think that Mike Evans is going to play,
03:20and you had made the comment that a piece of you is looking forward
03:24to seeing the 49ers play without Mike Evans.
03:27Yeah, because I want to see Brock Purdy go against a good defense
03:32in the Broncos' defense, maybe not as good as we thought they were going to be.
03:35They're certainly more talented than the Cardinals and the Dolphins
03:38the last couple of weeks, and do that without a great receiver in Mike Evans,
03:43and listening to Greg Cosell, you can play the sound in a little bit,
03:46talk about what Mike Evans means to the offense and how he changes things.
03:49I'm curious to see Brock Purdy playing at an MVP level
03:52can maybe elevate the guys around you and still put together
03:57a really good offensive performance against a good defense
03:59without your best weapon.
04:02I know the way you took that was you don't really, you know,
04:05maybe fully believe that this is who Brock is.
04:07I just want to see him against a bigger challenge,
04:09and I'm excited to see him show that he can do it in this kind of challenge.
04:12I have mixed feelings about this, because yes, I totally hear what you're saying.
04:18The other piece of me, though, goes, it sounds to me on some level
04:23like you are still waiting for Brock Purdy to prove something to you.
04:31I don't ask for Joe Burrows, like, okay, Joe, but do it without Jamar and T,
04:38and then you're good.
04:40I don't, that's not totally where you're coming from, Grandy.
04:43I'm not saying, like, have a bad game and I think you're bad.
04:45I'm just like, this is the biggest challenge, I think, for Brock of the season,
04:49because against the Rams, you had a fully healthy complement of wide receivers.
04:53And show it. I'm excited to see it.
04:55I get it. I get it.
04:56But there's also, there's a little, there's a little of that thing in there,
05:01which is like, okay.
05:03Show me. A little bit of the show me.
05:04And we do this to Brock.
05:05We've been doing it for four years.
05:07Savers. Oh, that? Okay, now do this.
05:10Oh, you went to the Super Bowl? Okay.
05:12Oh, you went to the NFC title game? Now go to the Super Bowl.
05:15Oh, you went to the Super Bowl? Wait a minute, now you have to win it.
05:17Oh, wait a minute.
05:19Oh, you can come from ahead?
05:21And now come from behind.
05:22Can you do it on your left leg?
05:23Can you do it on your right leg?
05:25Can you do it without your receivers?
05:26Can you do it without your line?
05:27Can you do it without a running back?
05:28Can you do it without a coach?
05:29Can you? Can you?
05:31It's a little bit like Steph Curry to me.
05:34When is this going to end?
05:35Well, and for Steph, and this is a little bit of a contrived example,
05:40but they win the NBA title and Iguodala's the MVP.
05:43Then you lose it.
05:44Then you get KD.
05:45And it's like, okay, you needed KD to win two.
05:47And then you go out there and you have the COVID year and they struggle
05:51and they blow draft picks.
05:52And then 2022, they go out there, they win the damn thing.
05:56And he is the finals MVP.
05:58So at that point, it was like, okay, Steph, welcome to the Last Supper painting
06:03of the top 12 players of all time.
06:06So like before that, was Steph awesome?
06:08Yes, he was.
06:09But until he won one without KD and when he was actually the MVP
06:14and he put up 50 against Boston, I think at that moment,
06:18and Brock's not at this level,
06:19but I do think that there's a certain amount of like the haterade of,
06:23all right, Steph, you've won one.
06:25You won three, but it was only because of KD.
06:28Like, show me one where you win it, where you're the dude.
06:31And then he showed you that he won one when he's the dude.
06:34And now it's like, okay, okay, you're that guy.
06:37I like your comp because it's a reach though, because Brock is not Steph.
06:42It's on a different planet, but the planet was,
06:44it's like we all knew Steph was minted and awesome.
06:47But as soon as he won the fourth one and was the finals MVP,
06:50that's when you started to hear people go,
06:52oh, he might be one of the top 10 players of all time.
06:55Yeah.
06:55Like in order to get to that level.
06:58But yeah, there's just, I've always sensed that.
07:01There's a piece of that.
07:02Anything Brock will do, you're like, okay, all right,
07:05but could you do it with your helmet on backwards?
07:08Can you be that awesome?
07:10It's just like, I don't know.
07:11When are we going to just settle with like,
07:13you got a great quarterback here.
07:15I'm thinking about the year where he was like on the short list for MVP.
07:20And then he went and played Lamar Jackson in Baltimore,
07:24Mike McDonald, defensive coordinator on Christmas.
07:26And so whenever anybody wants to like defame Brock Purdy,
07:31you go back to that game, that game, that game,
07:33because forget what led up to it.
07:36And what led up to it was this guy was probably maybe going to be the MVP
07:40of the league.
07:41And he had one bad night, one really bad night.
07:44They had a bad night.
07:46He threw four picks.
07:47He got pulled.
07:48So if you want to like look at Brock Purdy and like disrespect his career,
07:52we all go back to that one.
07:53There you go.
07:54How many starts in are we now?
07:55How many starts?
07:5652.
07:58But that was him.
08:00That was Brock.
08:01The other ones don't care.
08:02No, forget the lead up to where if he would have gone out and had a normal Brock game,
08:06he probably wins the MVP.
08:08And I know that they beat the Superbowl favorites like a drum,
08:10but that didn't count because we said so.
08:14Well, it didn't count because they flew out their last minute.
08:16Right.
08:17So nevermind.
08:18No.
08:19Play a good team.
08:23And I do kind of like what Grandy was saying.
08:25Okay.
08:26I like what Grandy said to the extent that, okay,
08:29so if you don't have Mike Evans and you don't have Demarcus Robinson,
08:33and so now you're going to have Debo Samuel and like Jordan Watkins and Brandon Cooks,
08:39who just signed off the street.
08:41You're going to have other people who are going to be running routes,
08:44but to me,
08:45this game becomes more about Shanahan than it does about Brock Purdy,
08:48because Denver's not great against the run.
08:51So you might see a game where they try to win this thing like 16 to 11 or 19 to
08:5717.
08:58Maybe.
08:58I think that that's one matchup to watch.
09:01Denver's really good at rushing the quarterback.
09:04And the Niners are really good at not letting their quarterback get touched.
09:08So that's also,
09:09that's another matchup here.
09:10No sacks against the Niners this year,
09:13but Denver led the league in sacks the last two consecutive seasons.
09:17So there are a lot of those matchups and it's a chess match.
09:19Once I'm with you,
