Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson, and NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss how Purdy can prove doubters wrong by stepping up while his top offensive playmakers are out with injuries. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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We can talk all we want about, you know, oh, it’s unfair like people keep calling him a system quarterback and like it, well, the league’s not fair.
He got drafted last, OK, everybody passed him over repeatedly and then he comes in and has success and that continues.
People focus it through Shanahan.
It’s Shanahan, it’s the skill position players.
It’s Debo, it’s Christian mccaffrey, it’s George Kittle, it’s the offensive line.
It’s all these things around him that make Brock Purdy great and not once has anyone stopped and said, maybe we’re carrying around the stigma of this guy being the last pick in the draft.
And so to us, we’re always saying he’s an overachiever when maybe it’s the NFL teams that underachieved in their draft assessment.
Maybe he actually was a better player than anybody thought.
And yet we still are carrying around this thought process of, yeah, he’s just, he’s playing above his head right now and it’s because of all the surrounding pieces.
Well, he has an opportunity to affect that right now.
Christian mccaffrey goes out looks like it’s gonna be multiple weeks.
Debo Samuel goes out looks like it’s gonna be multiple weeks.
George Kittle hobbled now by a hamstring, you have an ability to now step in and say it’s me.
It’s not the system.
I am the system.
And I’ll just bring up a conversation I had with him in training camp where in the off season he had made this conversation public about how he wanted to be a dominant NFL player.
And I asked him, I’m like, why, why, like why put that out there?
He told me and this is, this is paraphrasing here, but he was like, I want my teammates to hear that.
I want…
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Publish date : 2024-09-20 17:20:40
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