49ers’ Brock Purdy declines to address Cam Newton’s ‘game manager’ allegations: ‘I’m playing quarterback’

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is one of the leading candidates for the NFL’s 2023 MVP award. Earlier this week, Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys briefly surpassed Purdy as the outright favorite at Caesars Sportsbook, but Purdy has re-taken the top spot with odds of just +130. He also checked in second in our MVP watch poll (behind Prescott) for the second consecutive week. 

Still, there are people who do not think Purdy is doing all that much of the work, and try to discredit him. The most recent example of that was former NFL MVP Cam Newton, who said on a podcast that Purdy and Prescott, among others, are merely “game managers.”

“They’re not winning because of him,” Newton said of Purdy. “He’s managing the game. And if we were to put that in its own right as game managers: Brock Purdy, Tua Tagovailoa, Jared Goff. And really, Dak Prescott. These are game managers. They’re not difference makers.”

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Purdy was asked about Newton’s comments, but declined to directly address them. “I don’t know,” Purdy said during…


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Author : Jared Dubin

Publish date : 2023-12-15 13:48:18

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