No matter your opinion was of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy going into Saturday’s divisional playoff recreation towards the Inexperienced Bay Packers, it in all probability stays unchanged following the 49ers’ 24-21 win.
When you see him as a game-managing, system quarterback who’s a product of the expertise round him, you in all probability watched a sloppy, lackluster efficiency for three-and-a-half quarters the place he missed throws and struggled to maneuver the ball as quickly as large receiver Deebo Samuel left the sport. That’s to say nothing of a possible pick-six that was merely dropped early within the recreation.
When you see him as a franchise quarterback, an MVP-caliber participant and a “winner,” you watched him shake off some early struggles and put collectively a very powerful drive of the sport with the 49ers’ season on the road. That is a winner transfer, and what separates the nice gamers from the nice gamers — particularly on the most important stage.
Either side have their opinion on Purdy, and each will see Saturday’s recreation as a defining second for his or her argument.
They each have good motive to take action. That’s the magnificence — and typically insanity — of sports activities. A number of the talk merely comes right down to what you imagine going into the sport and what you wish to imagine after the very fact.
The fact is that Purdy’s last stat line (23-for-39, 252 yards, one landing and no interceptions) is pretty pedestrian. A greater quarterback would have simply made extra performs and never required the sport to come back right down to a drive on the finish of the fourth quarter.
It finally comes right down to notion. If he had been a first-round choose on a beforehand unhealthy staff placing up these numbers, he would merely be dwelling as much as expectations and the focus of a staff’s turnaround. However as a result of he was the final choose in his draft class, by no means anticipated to be a starter and was becoming a member of a roster that’s arguably probably the most gifted staff within the NFL, he’s seen extra as a passenger.
Nearly the one factor that may finish the talk is that if Purdy leads the 49ers to a Tremendous Bowl. Even then there nonetheless may be a section of doubters.
