What Purdy, Bosa learned about 49ers after missing out on playoffs

What Purdy, Bosa learned about 49ers after missing out on playoffs originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Not much has gone right for the 49ers during the 2024 NFL season, and that domino effect resulted in San Francisco being eliminated from playoff contention before the team even played a snap against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.

After their 29-17 loss at Hard Rock Stadium, which dropped the 49ers to 6-9 on the year, quarterback Brock Purdy and defensive end Nick Bosa told reporters what they’ve learned about their team during a rare down year.

“It’s sort of tough,” Purdy said. “We’ll really see after the season, just the theme of every game and all that kind of stuff, where we need to be better and stuff. But just off the top of my head, it’s just been not clean football across the board. I just feel like we’re hurting ourselves offensively, and then when the defense gets a stop, we’ve got to go and capitalize. Last year we did that really well — last couple years, and we played team football for four quarters and I just felt like we were pretty dominant [last year].

“So this year, it’s just been hit or miss, and the momentum as a whole team and a unit has just been OK. And that’s a lot on me for our offense. I got to get our guys going and and be on top of things, and so definitely learning that. But more than anything, it’s like we have a really good team and we have good players and a lot of the core guys from obviously what we’ve done the last couple years, and so that’s what hurts is you have those kind of guys and culture here, and we just haven’t been able to get it done in some games.”

It has been an up-and-down season for Purdy and the 49ers’ offense — but mostly down. After bursting onto the scene in 2022, and then shattering records and earning NFL MVP votes in his first full season as San Francisco’s starting quarterback in 2023, things haven’t come as easily for the 24-year-old in 2024.

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Publish date : 2024-12-23 03:46:00

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