Are the people in this thread just trolling or are they seriously this clueless?
Brock literally set a record for deep ball accuracy last year per PFF. He leads in air yards per attempt by a landslide, as well as air yards per completion, this year. He was 2nd last year.
Steve Young had a weaker arm than Brock. He got laughed at in the distance contests. Look them up on Youtube.
Joe Montana also had a weaker arm than Purdy.
Young didn't even have a top 10 arm ON THE 49ERS. No joke. There were several skill position guys with stronger arms than Young. Jerry Rice (who played QB in HS) and John Taylor both had stronger arms than Young. So did Deion Sanders (remember he played centerfield in baseball). So did Harry Sydney. So did Terry Kirby. Honestly, I think T.O. might have even had a stronger arm than Young.
Arm strength is utterly meaningless. You don't succeed on the basis of arm strength.
Also, the people talking about getting paid know absolutely nothing about the salary cap. You don't make "60 million" per year as a cap figure. You make it as an average with the signing bonus included prorated across the years of the contract.
Football also has huge inflation, meaning that Brock's contract will be league average eventually. For some reason the people whining about paying Brock never understand this.
Furthermore, how can you people still be so dense as to talk about other players after EVERY OTHER f**kING PLAYER ON THE TEAM HAS BEEN GETTING INJURED WITHIN 10 GAMES EVERY f**kING SEASON?
How do you idiots not realize that this is always going to happen? This happens to every team, by the way. It's not just the 49ers. It's from the PEDs they use. They get injuries guys never used to get. Notice that Colton McKivitz and Jake Brendal don't get hurt. That's because they're among the only players on the team not using modern PEDs. It affects their play, as you have noticed.
Furthermore, I am so sick of this "why didn't we invest in da oooo-liiiiiine?" Nonsense. If anything, we've invested far too much in it. Most of the hits on Brock have been from blitzes that we don't have enough guys to account for because of Kyle's horrendous scheme, not from the line. It's similar to how people think you can run the ball by getting "ooooo-liiiiine." No, you get running game from scheme. Also, nobody ever talks about the tight end or fullback in the equation…they are far more important to the running game as far as actual ability than the o-line.
Since Kyle has been here, he traded for Trent Williams, took Mike McGlinchey in the top 10, traded for Laken Tomlinson, took Aaron Banks and Dominic Puni in the 2nd round, and signed Weston Richburg.
This team's fans expect 5 HOF linemen in order to have a good line, and then they'd say they're all not playing well when Brock kept getting hit by free blitzes because Kyle doesn't build in actual hot reads or allow him to adjust the protections (no, you can't just deem somebody "hot" and have that count as a hot read…they're only hot if they're not f**king covered).
The only player the team should sign to a long-term contract is Brock Purdy. They should pay him whatever he wants, because the other players are IRRELEVANT. Football is a scheme game on both sides of the ball.
Oh wait, I WOULD pay a top kicker. That's the other exception.
I'm so sick of this nonsense about "supporting cast." QBs are NEVER carried by supporting cast. That literally never happens. There are some exceptions from other eras of football where Randy Moss certainly had a huge effect since you don't have to be accurate to use him, but nobody is Randy Moss
It's offensive system, a QB who runs the system well (which Brock did before whatever injuries he has had since the Vikings game, which is when I noticed his bad ball placement on those digs to Screenbo, who is also the worst route runner in the history of the game), and defensive system. Oh, and special teams, which Kyle doesn't care about.
The off-season plan is as follows:
Pay Brock whatever it takes.
Fire Kyle Shanahan and replace him with a better offensive mind, of which there are plenty.
I like the cover 3 scheme as the team has overachieved with it, but Kocurek needs to be fired, as he gets nothing out of the defensive line. They should look at short-term contracts for rushers.
Fire this special teams coordinator.
Look for a good kicker.
Cut Screenbo and provide cap relief by designating him June 1.
Don't re-sign Banks.
Back to offensive line: You couldn't even NAME most of the linemen on most Super Bowl winning teams. Center is the least important position of all. The typical center is a player drafted rounds 5 onward, or undrafted free agent, who knows the system and makes the calls up front. As actual linemen, they're usually mediocre. No, Jake Brendel is not a significant problem. Please tell me how great a center Ben Garland was on the 2019 49ers.
Sacks are on the QB and scheme. The QBs who don't get sacked a lot won't get sacked a lot no matter who you put in front of them. The QBs regularly getting sacked are the QBs who hold the ball too long and typically are guys who run around too much.
That's just something you have to deal with with Brock, but you had to deal with that with Steve Young and Aaron Rodgers too. No QB is perfect.
Brock in 2023 was the best QB in the NFL by a landslide. Literally no other QB was even close. That alone earns him whatever contract he wants.
