Originally posted by Young2Owens:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by Ruixx:
Oh eff Cohen, he only says that now to get clicks as he built up his negative agenda against Purdy all year. Not a journalist. Just a headline writer.
Really what should be the key to Purdy being the real deal is that this is the very first QB in decades that actually united Niners fans. No beat writer, no coach, literally no one is as hard on 49ers quarterbacks as 49ers fans (and I'm not saying that's a bad thing necessary, it's just a fanbase that really values and knows the QB position.)
Kap didn't unite the fan base?
Kap had a lot of haters that were Alex smith loyalists
Kaepernick took a lot of grief because he wasn't a particularly good QB. He had a couple of things he did pretty well, but he never learned how to play the position. As a result, he never elevated his game much beyond what it was when he first started and after a couple of years the league figured him out.
I imagine his sideline protest, which I didn't have a problem with, was a huge factor in why he never got a second chance. But still, most teams will always take a chance on talent so there must have been something in his game that they felt was lacking. Michael Vick went to prison for two years and he still had an opportunity to play when he got out. Seems to me that's a far more egregious thing than not standing for the National anthem, but I suspect that since most owners are billionaires, they're probably a pretty conservative lot, so that kind of behavior might not sit with them very well. Especially if they think a certain segment of the fans will object and so it might end up costing them money. Which is what it's all about, right? That and control. Like all big time sports the NFL is just another form of bread and circuses, without the bread, to keep the masses entertained and distracted from what's really going on.
The thing about Brock, which in the end is what made Lance expendable, is that he understands how to play the position. He seems to have elite vision and processing skills and a good enough arm to make all the throws and the mobility to make things happen if a play goes off schedule. Plus, he is just super competitive. So how can you not get behind that? One of the best things about every Brock TD pass is to watch how absolutely jacked he gets about it afterward. Jimmy had that as well but it's a quality I never really saw in Lance.
I think the main thing with Lance was that people were projecting all of their football god fantasies onto him before he even got out of the gate. They kept telling themselves he was going to be the next Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson. I watched the highlights of both of their games yesterday and I'm not sure Lance would have ever gotten to that level, especially as a runner, which was supposed to be his big thing. In that regard, even Justin Fields is way better than him. I didn't have much of an opinion about it one way or another until the Raiders preseason game this year, where he was really just awful. Not to say he might not grow into being a decent player at some point down the road, but he simply wasn't the guy that a lot of people were trying to fool themselves into thinking he would be.
