Big J wrote:Pattersonca65 wrote:Big J wrote:
Most available QB comps will have been in the league longer than him. Who is your comp for him if mine is so crappy?
I am.not comping a 10 year vet to essentially a first year player since one player hS hit his peak and the other is still growing. We don't know where he will be in a couple of years
So we’re only allowed to compare him to other 2nd year players? That’s idiotic. None of the other 2nd year guys have a similar archetype to him. We’re also most likely seeing his Peak right now. He’s never going to have better weapons or coaching around him.
Perhaps we could look at other players in their second years who may have been comparable. I don't know that there's much of a list out there, but it's worth considering.
As far as him being at his peak, that's silly. Peak productivity? Sure, that's possible, given the collection of talent and coaching around him. And given that his and the team's productivity have been elite to date by just about any metric, that's fine. But we should expect him to personally improve as a player.
As good as Purdy's grasp has been of the game to date for a young player, we should have every reason to expect that it will improve. Year-two Peyton Manning couldn't read a defense the way year-ten Manning could. The same is presumably true of Purdy. There is also some precedent for NFL QBs improving their arm strength as they mature physically and refine their mechanics and offseason routines. There's also a good chance that he will improve those deep balls that he struggled with early in the season. Guys like Brady and Brees showed a lot of development in that area, independent of arm strength.