QB Brock Purdy Thread

Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:

Six 10+ yard completion and three 30+ yard completion difference in 4 games is a ton. That's nearly 200 more yards of explosive plays through 4 games.. Brock's the man.

Originally posted by Dshearn:

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by picklejuice:

Originally posted by tankle104:

The Bay Area is so expensive that Brock Purdy has to live with a roommate. The #49ers starting quarterback is making $870,000 this year. pic.twitter.com/Uk3orQPpl0

— Cameron Salerno (@cameronsalerno1) October 4, 2023

i like him even more.

This is so dumb, you dont need to make almost a million/yr to rent an apartment in the bay area

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by picklejuice:

Originally posted by tankle104:

The Bay Area is so expensive that Brock Purdy has to live with a roommate. The #49ers starting quarterback is making $870,000 this year. pic.twitter.com/Uk3orQPpl0

— Cameron Salerno (@cameronsalerno1) October 4, 2023

i like him even more.

This is so dumb, you dont need to make almost a million/yr to rent an apartment in the bay area

There is probably a breakeven point that combines security/location/privacy that made his current arrangement more attractive then what it would cost to go solo.

Steve Young and Mike Cofer were roommates in Mountain View in 1992, I used to rent Laser Discs to them. Young went by Jon Smith, Cofer used his real name.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
Brady didn't carry crap his first few years in the league. He was in full on game manager mode, making the smart throws but that team was built on the basis of a dominant defense with Belichick scheming his ass off, never giving up more than 17 points in the playoffs. It took Belichick a couple of years but by 2001, that defense was legit as hell and would only get better over the next few years.

Patriots fans wanted Brady to be replaced by Bledsoe in the playoffs that first year and even after winning a SB, there were a lot of them still calling for Bledsoe. It wasn't really until 2005 where Brady started to take over games and began looking like the Tom Brady people would see for the rest of his career. If Purdy continues to progress then its reasonable to expect that at some point he'll be able at least somewhat make up for any drop offs in talent levels on offense with the hope being that Shanalynch and Co continue making sound investments in the OL and defense long term.

Brady in his second full year threw the ball over 600 times and led the NFL in TD passes....to guys who aren't exactly household names. That is basically doing everything he can to do the heavy lifting.

As for Patriot fans wanting Bledsoe....it may not been until 2005 that fans started seeing that keeping Brady over Bledsoe was the correct decision....but it was Belichick who decided that in 2001 when Bledsoe could return to the lineup, and Belly said no. It was Belly who fully trusted him in the last minute of a Super Bowl to throw the ball instead of sitting on it and hoping for OT miracles. Those fans....were wrong.

Purdy? If he continues on his pace and improves with every game/season, then he most definitely will make up for the potential losses largely due to the contract that he may earn. If that is the case, then it is an acceptable trade-off.

Originally posted by TheWooLick:
Steve Young and Mike Cofer were roommates in Mountain View in 1992, I used to rent Laser Discs to them. Young went by Jon Smith, Cofer used his real name.

Damn that's an awesome story, haha!!

Originally posted by Dshearn:

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by picklejuice:

Originally posted by tankle104:

The Bay Area is so expensive that Brock Purdy has to live with a roommate. The #49ers starting quarterback is making $870,000 this year. pic.twitter.com/Uk3orQPpl0

— Cameron Salerno (@cameronsalerno1) October 4, 2023

i like him even more.

This is so dumb, you dont need to make almost a million/yr to rent an apartment in the bay area

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by picklejuice:

Originally posted by tankle104:

The Bay Area is so expensive that Brock Purdy has to live with a roommate. The #49ers starting quarterback is making $870,000 this year. pic.twitter.com/Uk3orQPpl0

— Cameron Salerno (@cameronsalerno1) October 4, 2023

i like him even more.

This is so dumb, you dont need to make almost a million/yr to rent an apartment in the bay area

There is probably a breakeven point that combines security/location/privacy that made his current arrangement more attractive then what it would cost to go solo.

Speaking of privacy, anyone here still do that whole calling Marriott thing during the free agency period?

Sorry if this is a repost, but check this out (pay wall but worth it!):

https://theathletic.com/4226466/2023/02/24/nfl-quarterbacks-s2-cognition-test/

Purdy aced the S2 cognition test, which supposedly only the elite QB can ace!

I copy and pasted the good parts, so this isn't the entire text, but most of the good stuff......

The test he absolutely aced — and one that predicted his brilliant rookie season for the 49ers — was administered out of public view. Purdy landed in the mid 90s on something called the S2 Cognition test, a score you might consider Drew Brees-like.

Which is to say, it's elite.

The S2 isn't an intelligence test like the 50-question Wonderlic exam but rather measures how quickly and accurately athletes process information. It's like the 40-yard dash for the brain.

"The game will never be too fast for Brock, I'll say that," said Brandon Ally, a neuroscientist and cofounder of Nashville-based S2 Cognition. "I don't think he'll ever have trouble adjusting."

He couldn't give out Purdy's exact score because it's privileged information but said it was in the "mid 90s." That's about where Brees, the former Saints quarterback famous for lightning-fast decision-making, scored and where two of the top passers in the league now, the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes and the Bills' Josh Allen, also landed. The Bengals' Joe Burrow took the test while at LSU and agreed to allow S2 to disclose the information.

Of course he did — he scored in the 97th percentile.

"We consider anything above the 80th percentile to be elite," Ally said.

For decades the NFL used the Wonderlic to measure intelligence. The questions start out easy — What's the eighth month of the year?, for example — and get progressively more difficult. Most people can't finish the 12-minute exam. While a high Wonderlic score suggests a quarterback knows how to study and will remember the playbook, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll hold up well against a zero blitz.

Brees is a good example. He got a 28 on the Wonderlic, which is very good, but not superior. His S2 score, meanwhile, was exceptional. Ally said the cognition test not only can forecast whether a quarterback will be successful in the NFL, it comes close to predicting the quarterback's career passer rating.

The company recently looked at 27 starting quarterbacks. (Some of the older veterans like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers had entered the league before S2 began testing in 2015 and there are no scores for them; Brees took the test while already playing in the NFL.) Of that group, 13 had a career passer rating above 90. The average S2 score of those players was the 91st percentile. Those with passer ratings below 90 had much lower test results.

"Those 14 guys, the average score was in the low 60s," Ally said.

Top-tier quarterbacks have the highest average scores, followed closely by safeties. That makes sense considering safeties are known as the "quarterback of the defense" and must keep an eye on multiple moving opponents.

"The average human being can keep track of about three and a half objects at a time," Alley said. "The average safety in the NFL, it's closer to six."

The positions with the third-highest scores: linebacker and cornerback.

The highest S2 score in last year's draft class, in fact, was turned in by a cornerback, Trent McDuffie, who started 15 games for the Chiefs, including the Super Bowl.

Purdy's score wasn't too far behind. According to Ally, the 49ers quarterback did particularly well in three areas. One of them was spatial awareness, which translates in several aspects of the game, including how well a quarterback can assess a defense before the snap.

Another area in which Purdy excelled was distraction control.

"Those are the guys — and Drew Brees was one of those — who, the pocket, the world could be collapsing around them and they can just maintain that steely focus on what they're supposed to be doing," Ally said.

Finally, Purdy was especially impressive when it came to depth perception speed.

"He was in some pretty elite company," Ally said. "I mean, he was in the high 90s on that."

As for the 49ers' other young quarterback, Trey Lance?

Ally couldn't reveal the exact number but said Lance "scored well."

"He's not in the Brock Purdy range but he didn't score poorly," he said.

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:
Sorry if this is a repost, but check this out (pay wall but worth it!):

https://theathletic.com/4226466/2023/02/24/nfl-quarterbacks-s2-cognition-test/

Purdy aced the S2 cognition test, which supposedly only the elite QB can ace!

I copy and pasted the good parts, so this isn't the entire text, but most of the good stuff......

The test he absolutely aced — and one that predicted his brilliant rookie season for the 49ers — was administered out of public view. Purdy landed in the mid 90s on something called the S2 Cognition test, a score you might consider Drew Brees-like.

Which is to say, it's elite.

The S2 isn't an intelligence test like the 50-question Wonderlic exam but rather measures how quickly and accurately athletes process information. It's like the 40-yard dash for the brain.

"The game will never be too fast for Brock, I'll say that," said Brandon Ally, a neuroscientist and cofounder of Nashville-based S2 Cognition. "I don't think he'll ever have trouble adjusting."

He couldn't give out Purdy's exact score because it's privileged information but said it was in the "mid 90s." That's about where Brees, the former Saints quarterback famous for lightning-fast decision-making, scored and where two of the top passers in the league now, the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes and the Bills' Josh Allen, also landed. The Bengals' Joe Burrow took the test while at LSU and agreed to allow S2 to disclose the information.

Of course he did — he scored in the 97th percentile.

"We consider anything above the 80th percentile to be elite," Ally said.

For decades the NFL used the Wonderlic to measure intelligence. The questions start out easy — What's the eighth month of the year?, for example — and get progressively more difficult. Most people can't finish the 12-minute exam. While a high Wonderlic score suggests a quarterback knows how to study and will remember the playbook, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll hold up well against a zero blitz.

Brees is a good example. He got a 28 on the Wonderlic, which is very good, but not superior. His S2 score, meanwhile, was exceptional. Ally said the cognition test not only can forecast whether a quarterback will be successful in the NFL, it comes close to predicting the quarterback's career passer rating.

The company recently looked at 27 starting quarterbacks. (Some of the older veterans like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers had entered the league before S2 began testing in 2015 and there are no scores for them; Brees took the test while already playing in the NFL.) Of that group, 13 had a career passer rating above 90. The average S2 score of those players was the 91st percentile. Those with passer ratings below 90 had much lower test results.

"Those 14 guys, the average score was in the low 60s," Ally said.

Top-tier quarterbacks have the highest average scores, followed closely by safeties. That makes sense considering safeties are known as the "quarterback of the defense" and must keep an eye on multiple moving opponents.

"The average human being can keep track of about three and a half objects at a time," Alley said. "The average safety in the NFL, it's closer to six."

The positions with the third-highest scores: linebacker and cornerback.

The highest S2 score in last year's draft class, in fact, was turned in by a cornerback, Trent McDuffie, who started 15 games for the Chiefs, including the Super Bowl.

Purdy's score wasn't too far behind. According to Ally, the 49ers quarterback did particularly well in three areas. One of them was spatial awareness, which translates in several aspects of the game, including how well a quarterback can assess a defense before the snap.

Another area in which Purdy excelled was distraction control.

"Those are the guys — and Drew Brees was one of those — who, the pocket, the world could be collapsing around them and they can just maintain that steely focus on what they're supposed to be doing," Ally said.

Finally, Purdy was especially impressive when it came to depth perception speed.

"He was in some pretty elite company," Ally said. "I mean, he was in the high 90s on that."

As for the 49ers' other young quarterback, Trey Lance?

Ally couldn't reveal the exact number but said Lance "scored well."

"He's not in the Brock Purdy range but he didn't score poorly," he said.

That's awesome and amazing information. We have the next elite top tier QB with one of the best play callers and one of the best front offices at collecting talent on the roster. Aka FINNA BE A DYNASTY! Muahahahah

can't wait for Brock to dominate the cowgirls this weekend

Niners dynasty or Purdynasty

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
Rich Eisen calls Brock an "assassin." New nickname?

On Niners postgame they had a saying, ruthless efficiency, I liked that one
he is a lil ruthless

Brock "The Assassin" Purdy!

Originally posted by RickyRoma:

Brady in his second full year threw the ball over 600 times and led the NFL in TD passes....to guys who aren't exactly household names. That is basically doing everything he can to do the heavy lifting.

As for Patriot fans wanting Bledsoe....it may not been until 2005 that fans started seeing that keeping Brady over Bledsoe was the correct decision....but it was Belichick who decided that in 2001 when Bledsoe could return to the lineup, and Belly said no. It was Belly who fully trusted him in the last minute of a Super Bowl to throw the ball instead of sitting on it and hoping for OT miracles. Those fans....were wrong.

Purdy? If he continues on his pace and improves with every game/season, then he most definitely will make up for the potential losses largely due to the contract that he may earn. If that is the case, then it is an acceptable trade-off.

What's the point here, Brock is comparing favorably to Brady or that Brock hasn't proven to be as good as Tom Brady just yet?

Originally posted by JTsBiggestFan:

Originally posted by TheWooLick:

Steve Young and Mike Cofer were roommates in Mountain View in 1992, I used to rent Laser Discs to them. Young went by Jon Smith, Cofer used his real name.

Damn that's an awesome story, haha!!

I always figured Steve was a cheapskate.

Originally posted by picklejuice:

.@brockpurdy13 is so awesome with these kids from the Boys and Girls Club. ❤️

(via @TracyFGSN) pic.twitter.com/sMfat42Ech

— NFL (@NFL) October 4, 2023

He should be studying film, f dem kids.
jk

kinda

Originally posted by picklejuice:

.@brockpurdy13 is so awesome with these kids from the Boys and Girls Club. ❤️

(via @TracyFGSN) pic.twitter.com/sMfat42Ech

— NFL (@NFL) October 4, 2023

Me trying to get a BP autograph before these spoiled kids...

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:

Six 10+ yard completion and three 30+ yard completion difference in 4 games is a ton. That's nearly 200 more yards of explosive plays through 4 games.. Brock's the man.

But, but, but Dak.... says the national media.