Analyzing how Brock Purdy holds back the San Francisco 49ers wide receivers.
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00:00 Does Brock pretty hold back the wide receivers?
00:03 This is an interesting little wrinkle.
00:05 Uh, obviously Brandon, Iuke is on pace for like 1400 yards and he gets a lot
00:10 of targets and, and a lot of catches, but he doesn't have that many touchdowns
00:15 as Larry Kruger pointed out.
00:18 He only has two this year.
00:19 And is that, I mean, Larry Kruger made it seem like that's a failing of Brandon
00:23 Iuke, but if you actually look at Brock, Purdy's, um, history, he really never
00:30 threw a bunch of touchdown passes to a wide receiver in college.
00:33 And last year, like he didn't throw a bunch of wide touchdown passes.
00:38 I, I had eight TDs last year and only two came from Purdy this year.
00:42 He has two touchdown catches from Purdy.
00:43 Uh, and so that's four touchdowns total from Purdy from I to Iuke since,
00:48 uh, and that's including the playoffs.
00:49 Debo has one receiving touchdown since Purdy took over, including the playoffs.
00:53 Juwan Jennings has zero touchdowns since Purdy took over, including the
00:56 playoffs, a pretty as 12 touchdown passes here at eight or two backs and tight ends.
01:01 I mean, that's very like Gaelic Smithian.
01:04 If you want to, you know what I'm saying?
01:05 Like, that's just what it is.
01:08 I I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
01:11 What's interesting to me is Brandon.
01:14 I, you only has three red zone targets, not near the end zone.
01:18 Just when they're inside the twenties been targeted three times.
01:22 I don't think it's a look at Brock on that one.
01:24 Yeah.
01:24 Yes.
01:26 Yeah, kind of.
01:28 But also I look at Shanahan's offense.
01:30 Remember he's the one that built all of these guys to be certain types of players.
01:35 Even Debo, who is a wide receiver is more of a running pack.
01:39 Really?
01:40 He catches the ball near the line of scrimmage on a regular basis.
01:43 He does run from the backfield.
01:44 It seems like he built this team to take advantage of bad linebacking
01:51 course throughout the NFL, because there's not very many good ones
01:54 throughout the NFL, maybe three or four in the four dinners have one of them.
01:57 So that means chances are weekend and week out.
02:00 You're not playing against great linebackers and that's how he's built.
02:04 This team tight ends running backs and Debo, who's essentially a running back
02:09 himself, that's just the way the team's built.
02:11 So, you know, you, you can put Brandon out there, but he's also not going to be
02:16 the guy that goes up and gets it in the corner of the end zone.
02:19 If you throw fade routes to him, we can say what we want about Brock, but.
02:24 How, first of all, the 49ers haven't been great in the red zone period.
02:29 This year is the best they've been in a long time.
02:32 As far as scoring touchdowns in the red zone, a lot of that is due to CMC.
02:35 I understand that, but red zone issues have been present before Brock.
02:41 So I can't necessarily put it on Brock.
02:43 I would say that's a Kyle thing.
02:45 Yeah.
02:49 But if it's a Brock thing, if it's a Brock thing, then maybe you should think
02:56 about that before giving like $20 million a year to Brandon.
02:59 I, because if Brock's like a good quarterback who just happens to use
03:03 tight ends and running backs more in the red zone, then maybe don't give
03:07 another $20 million wide receiver contract.
03:10 I mean, you already got one guy making $24 million a year.
03:14 Who's a running back according to Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
03:16 Now you want to do it again, and this is a quarterback who leans heavily
03:20 on his backs and tight ends.
03:21 Maybe, maybe not.
03:22 Not, I'm just saying.
03:24 I'm actually in favor of trading Brandon Ayuk.
03:26 Hell of a player, but maybe not going to reach his full potential on this team.
03:30 And maybe not, never will be truly elite.
03:32 And yet he's going to make 2021, $22 million a year.
03:36 Go do that in a tax-free state and go get your, your paper,
03:40 baby, but like not here.
03:41 Yeah, I don't know.
03:43 But then go to Houston with Tomiko.
03:46 Because Houston, most of the explosive plays are coming from Brandon Ayuk.
03:51 So if you remove him from this offense, where are the explosive
03:53 plays for a pick, a first round pick, and then draft a wide receiver.
03:57 You'd have to do, you have to get that pick right.
03:58 Minnesota did that when they got Justin Jefferson, but other teams.
04:03 I have a feeling that both of them will probably be here next year.
04:07 And I say both them Debo and Ayuk.
04:09 And then the year after they'll have to make a decision just because
04:13 of that, you know, that's the way it is.
04:14 When you extend a player, I think the move is to get rid of Debo.
04:18 If you're choosing.
04:18 It's just hard because getting rid of Debo comes with like a $30
04:22 million dead cap hit, whereas trading.
04:25 I, you could post June though.
04:26 It doesn't, it's only a $6 million hit.
04:28 So the next three years, post June, they have outs on Debo.
04:31 Post June.
04:34 Doesn't that spread it out over two years though?
04:35 Like when you get a hit the following year, I don't really know how that works.
04:38 Yeah, it does.
04:39 You basically spread it out over two years, but it's not, you
04:42 know, 6 million versus 30.
04:45 I'll take that.
04:46 Yeah, that's true.
04:47 That's true.
04:47 Yeah.
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