Big J wrote:49er4life1979 wrote:Big J wrote:
Team doesn't have to pay Purdy anything. We have a whole year to evaluate him and see if he's worth keeping around. Might be better to just start the cycle over with another guy on a rookie salary.
Based on his play so far, it is expected that he will continue to play well and is a franchise QB. He bounced back excellent after his elbow injury and took the team to the Super Bowl. Good QBs are very hard to find. So yeah he'll get his money. Lenoir is another guy I want to keep, probably should have extended him this past spring.
Jimmy also took this team to the Super Bowl.
I feel like we've been through this, but Jimmy didn't so much "take" the team to the super bowl as play on a team that made the super bowl. In his two playoff wins that year, he was 17 of 27 for 208 yards with one TD, one INT. COMBINED. Despite that, he won both games by 17 points and his team never trailed. That's because his RBs rushed for 180 yards and two TDs in the first playoff game and his RBs and Deebo rushed for 286 yards and four TDs in the second. For those who struggle with math, that's 208 passing yards and one passing TD versus 466 rushing yards and six rushing TDs in two games. His defense had six sacks, an INT, and a FF in the first game and three sacks, two INTs, and three FFs in the second. Jimmy was along for the ride in the playoffs that year. And every year, frankly. In six playoff starts, Jimmy has thrown for 962 yards (160 YPG), four TDs, and six INTs.
By contrast, Purdy has never had a playoff game that he started and finished in which he passed for fewer than 214 yards (or more than Jimmy threw in two games). This year, the team around him struggled and he had to carry them a bit. He threw for 252 yards and a TD in bad weather in a comeback win against Green Bay, then threw for 267 yards, one TD and one INT, along with 48 crucial rushing yards in another comeback win against Detroit. His defense allowed 21 and 31 points, though they did intercept Jordan Love twice in crunch time to seal the win. The rushing game chipped in 98 yards against GB and 107 yards against Detroit. In five playoff starts (and finishes), Purdy has thrown for 1320 yards (264 YPG), six TDs, and one INT.
Unlike Jimmy, whose job was not to mess things up for a dominant run game and defense, the team has relied on Purdy to win games for them in the playoffs. Anyone who can't see the difference just doesn't understand football.