San Francisco’s starting quarterback is past the point where he has to prove himself to those around him like the seventh-round pick did two years ago.
It’s Tuesday, and training camp is getting to the point where days are dragging—enough to tire guys, but not enough to feel like a preseason game is around the corner. It’s late in practice when the totality of that can set in.After the ball is snapped, his protection breaks down and he flips his hips to avoid a rusher, only to be faced with another. At that point, he backpedals a few steps to create space and, off-balance a bit, launches a corner route 40 or 50 yards in the air downfield.
“So, right now, practice, you can get away with it, because it’s practice. So now’s my time to learn. And take some opportunities.”Just as important, the quarterback’s past the point where he has to prove himself to those around him at Niners camp like the seventh-round pick did two years ago. Purdy knows who he is as a quarterback. So do his coaches, starting with Kyle Shanahan. His teammates are well aware, too, even if those outside of here don’t believe it.
• Sean Payton on the Denver Broncos quarterback derby, with updates on the situations surrounding the other five first-round quarterbacks as well. Shanahan on Purdy's offseason work: “It was cool, now that I’m here watching him—he was trying all this stuff that he didn’t do great on the cutups. He was really working through stuff. He’s doing things mechanically and with his feet that he’s never done before." / Robert Kupbens-USA TODAY Sports
One of those holes after studying the 2023 season was in how his feet weren’t always matching up with how he was reading the field. He could then tie that to inconsistencies in how the Niners’ offense played and, rather than shirking responsibility for things that were surely about more than just his footwork, took it on himself to rewire that part of his game. Being conscious of it in the spring, before he could commit it to muscle memory, created some bumps.
When a problem arose, as Purdy saw it, was when he would fall off the timing of the play, and his feet might be moving faster than his eyes or vice versa. So, to illustrate his own point, it could well be his eyes staying downfield on a receiver running to the post while his feet were telling him to go to a wide open back on a checkdown.
“It came up earlier in the season against the Jaguars and a bunch of other teams, the Bengals,” he says. “It’s a theme that had come up a lot. And so when we got to that Packers game, it was like, Purdy has his regrets, too, from the Super Bowl—and they mostly relate back to the regrets from earlier in the season. As he explains it, the moments where “you could’ve moved the chains, you could’ve stayed on the field.”
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