How Many QBs Would Win the Super Bowl on the 49ers?
Analyzing how many quarterbacks would win a Super Bowl playing for the San Francisco 49ers.
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00:00 I said something kind of reckless, my dad wanted to call me on it.
00:03 I said 25 other quarterbacks in the league could win on this team.
00:07 And my dad wants to start the discussion right there and ask what I mean by that.
00:13 Okay.
00:14 You know, I listened to a lot of the stuff that Iggy does and I heard him say 25 other
00:20 quarterbacks in the league could win with the 49ers.
00:25 Let's say 25 is an approximation because we haven't gone through a list, but we'll let's
00:31 say it means a lot, a lot of quarterbacks in the NFL could win with the 49ers.
00:36 And I agree.
00:37 I think a lot of them could.
00:41 But I want to refine the topic.
00:45 Could a lot of them do as well on the 49ers as Brock Purdy?
00:49 It's a different question.
00:50 And I think a more important question.
00:53 My guess is no, that a few could do as well and maybe one or two could do better.
01:02 But when it comes to the, what the 49ers do, what they need and what they want, and they
01:08 want excellence and they have excellence in him, he's probably in the top four of quarterbacks
01:16 who could really do well with the 49ers.
01:19 So first of all, he do accept my premise.
01:22 I love your premise.
01:24 The reason I came to my premise, like the how many quarterbacks could win with this
01:26 team.
01:27 I was thinking about Jimmy Garoppolo, who currently is a backup quarterback, not because
01:30 he's injured, just because he's a backup quarterback and he won with the 49ers.
01:34 And if I was thinking like if he's like the maybe the 33rd best quarterback in the league,
01:38 does that mean that 33 quarterbacks could win with this team?
01:41 Maybe it's that good of a team, but your question is more pertinent.
01:46 How many quarterbacks play as well with the, and is Brock Purdy the perfect fit for this
01:50 team?
01:51 And I can see in a lot of ways he is because the Niners don't need a physically like a
01:56 superhero quarterback to transcend the limitations of the supporting cast and the coach.
02:03 They don't need that.
02:04 They have a great coach.
02:05 They have a great supporting cast and people are open all the time.
02:07 They just need a guy who can see it and throw it accurately and on time.
02:11 That's what he can do as well as anyone.
02:14 Stand and deliver.
02:16 Stand and deliver.
02:17 That's right.
02:18 Remember that movie?
02:19 I love that movie.
02:20 Stand and deliver.
02:21 I love that movie.
02:22 Stand and deliver.
02:23 He can stand and deliver.
02:24 So now it's true Jimmy could win with them, but not longterm.
02:30 No, no, he couldn't.
02:33 Not longterm.
02:34 So I eliminate Jimmy from the conversation.
02:37 I think Jimmy is too much.
02:40 No, he couldn't win a Super Bowl.
02:44 Sure.
02:45 Anyway, he could win games, but he was not ultimately a winner with the 49ers.
02:52 I see.
02:54 Let's get rid of Jimmy real fast.
02:56 I see Brock Purdy as a way better quarterback than Jimmy Garoppolo ever was and ever would
03:01 be.
03:02 Can we agree on that?
03:03 Yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo threw a pretty pass.
03:05 Brock Purdy does that and he can see the field.
03:07 Jimmy would just lock on to receivers.
03:09 He didn't see what was going on.
03:11 Right, right.
03:12 Yeah.
03:13 Okay.
03:14 So, what quarterbacks in the league, two questions.
03:17 What quarterbacks in the league could do as well or better than Brock and what is it specifically
03:24 that the Niners want from Brock?
03:27 Can we do the other players first?
03:30 Sure.
03:31 The other quarterbacks.
03:32 I would pick Mahomes over him.
03:33 I would pick Mahomes over anyone unless he gets injured.
03:37 This is a Hall of Fame quarterback.
03:39 I'd say with no question.
03:42 He's so enjoyable, so adventurous, imaginative.
03:51 He could do everything that Kyle Shanahan would want and plus if it came to it, he could
03:57 save Kyle Shanahan's butt in a tough game.
04:01 So I would put him over Brock Purdy and I think Brock Purdy would put him over Brock
04:07 Purdy.
04:08 I think so.
04:10 The other contenders are Josh Allen and Justin Herbert for me and maybe Josh Allen is a better
04:17 quarterback than Purdy, but I don't think for the 49ers.
04:21 I think a couple of things about him.
04:24 He's a little reckless.
04:26 There's a Brett Favre in him and he might cause trouble and I think he would feel limited
04:33 under what Kyle wants him to do.
04:36 So although he may be a better quarterback than Brock and that's debatable, I don't think
04:41 he's better for the 49ers.
04:43 And again, Justin Herbert's good.
04:45 I like Brock Purdy better and there's no one else.
04:49 Now you may please.
04:51 He's hurt.
04:52 What about Joe Burrow?
04:53 Oh yeah, Joe Burrow.
04:55 I would put him over Brock Purdy.
04:58 Joe Burrow, my God.
05:00 And what he did to the 49ers.
05:05 I would use the adjective wonderful.
05:07 Joe Burrow's wonderful.
05:09 He is.
05:12 So okay, Burrow and Mahomes for the 49ers and I'd put Brock in third place.
05:19 Yeah, I think what's interesting, what are we looking for for the quarterback of the
05:23 49ers?
05:24 Again, this whole distinction that Cam Newton made I think was great.
05:26 The game manager, the game changer.
05:28 And Cam Newton was a game changer, but he had to play that way because he played for
05:33 Ron Rivera who had really middling offensive coordinators and they built through their
05:37 defense and they didn't have great wide receivers or running backs.
05:40 So his whole thing was to transcend what was given to him and make a play.
05:47 And that's what Josh Allen has to do a lot.
05:49 He plays for a defensive coach.
05:51 Their offensive coordinator got fired mid-season.
05:52 He has to make things happen because guys aren't just open for him.
05:57 On the Niners, the quarterback is not asked to make things, a couple times a game, a couple
06:00 times a game, make some things happen.
06:02 But essentially, find the open guy and get on the ball.
06:05 And Brock Purdy does it as well as anyone.
06:07 If he had to go to another team that wasn't as good, maybe he couldn't transcend it the
06:10 way some of the more physically gifted quarterbacks can.
06:13 But this seems to be a much better way to build a team anyway.
06:17 And Brock Purdy's perfect for it.
06:19 And plus he doesn't have to go to another team.
06:22 In reality, he's the 49ers quarterback and unless something weird happens for quite a
06:26 long time.
06:28 So we're talking about reality as it is, not as it might be.
06:32 And as it is, I'd say he's for the Niners.
06:36 Uh, three.
06:37 I think the Niners are this good.
06:41 Let's name all the quarterbacks we think could win a Super Bowl on this team.
06:45 I think Brock's in that list for sure.
06:46 He can win a Super Bowl with this team, Brock.
06:48 But I think there's got to be about 10 people we could, we could name, maybe more.
06:52 Hold on.
06:54 First of all, I do think he could win a Super Bowl with this team.
06:58 I think this season he, he is going to win a Super Bowl with this team unless he gets
07:04 hurt or, uh, something really weird happens.
07:08 And believe me, weird things happen.
07:10 But putting that aside, he's going to win a Super Bowl with this team.
07:16 So okay.
07:18 Other quarterbacks who could win a Super Bowl with this team.
07:21 Why don't we go back and forth?
07:22 I'll say my homes, Joe burrow.
07:27 No question.
07:28 Yeah.
07:29 No question.
07:30 Um, okay.
07:31 Um, probably Josh Allen.
07:36 Okay.
07:38 Uh, two, two.
07:42 Okay.
07:43 Justin Herbert.
07:44 Yeah.
07:45 Okay.
07:46 Um, Lamar.
07:47 Oh, we're going to talk a lot about Lamar later.
07:54 Um, I question that, but let's move on.
07:58 I'm going to give you a dark horse.
08:00 Yeah.
08:01 Jake Browning.
08:02 I'm not disputing it.
08:06 His quarterback rating is one Oh seven right now.
08:08 One Oh seven.
08:09 He is Brock pretty 2.0.
08:11 Yeah.
08:12 Um, okay.
08:13 I'll throw one out.
08:14 I'll throw one at you and I'm not sure of the answer.
08:18 Matthew Stafford.
08:19 I think, I think they would win with Matthew Stafford as he is currently.
08:24 Yeah.
08:25 Cause he's better.
08:26 Okay.
08:27 Okay.
08:28 Tyler.
08:29 I don't like him at all.
08:32 No, I don't like him.
08:34 He doesn't bring out the best in him.
08:36 No, I don't like him.
08:38 Okay.
08:39 Forget him.
08:40 What about Russell?
08:41 Hold on.
08:42 Hold on.
08:43 Okay.
08:44 Hold on.
08:45 Hold on.
08:46 Hold on.
08:47 I don't want him.
08:48 That's true.
08:49 Okay.
08:50 That's true.
08:51 He doesn't take his craft seriously enough.
08:52 What about Russell Wilson?
08:53 Not anymore.
08:54 I don't, I don't need more.
08:55 Not anymore.
08:56 Fair enough.
08:57 How about Dak?
08:58 I don't like them at all.
08:59 Oh, and the other one.
09:00 Yes.
09:01 Okay.
09:02 For what they want.
09:03 Yes.
09:04 Not the guy in Philly.
09:05 Not the guy in Philly.
09:06 How about Baker?
09:07 Borderline.
09:08 He might be able to.
09:09 Okay.
09:10 Borderline.
09:11 We didn't get to the borderline.
09:12 He might be able to.
09:13 Borderline.
09:14 Okay.
09:15 We just named 10.
09:16 We just named 10.
09:17 Roughly.
09:18 Yeah.
09:19 Yeah.
09:20 Yeah.
09:21 I'll tell you one who wouldn't, and I apologize.
09:23 The guy up in Seattle.
09:26 The starter.
09:27 Drew Locke.
09:28 No, no.
09:29 Or Gino.
09:30 Gino.
09:31 Hey, Gino's out.
09:32 Gino's out.
09:33 Drew Locke just took that job.
09:34 That's why.
09:35 Hey, could we talk about that for a moment?
09:37 Yes.
09:38 I have people, the ending to that game, what Drew Locke did.
09:42 God, that was interesting.
09:44 Those long passes.
09:45 And then I want to say, afterward he did the post-game interview, and usually they suck.
09:50 I wanted to say, it was not me.
09:52 It was the offensive line and he had a great def, all of that.
09:55 Right?
09:56 And you say, oh, go away.
09:58 This guy was crying.
10:00 Yeah.
10:01 There was trembling in his voice.
10:03 It meant so much to him.
10:06 It was almost like the meaning of his life.
10:09 And that interview was a one in a thousand.
10:12 And he was such, I've never met him.
10:14 He could be a jerk, but he came across as such an attractive young man.
10:18 I have to say, God love him.
10:20 That's how I felt watching that.
10:22 I wanted to say something.
10:24 Back when Trey Lance was on the team and all of us were talking about throwing mechanics
10:26 all the time.
10:27 Remember I brought on that passing coach, Austin Carter.
10:31 One of his main protégés that he worked with for a long time, Drew Luck, in college
10:37 at Missouri.
10:39 Well, when he threw long passes, he wasn't all that good in the short and medium range,
10:46 but long.
10:47 He was great and he made hurts look like an amateur at long passes.
10:51 He throws a really nice spiral.
10:53 He has that nice low three-quarter release.
10:55 He makes it look effortless throwing the football.
10:57 It's always been that way.
10:58 Yeah.
10:59 Yeah.
11:00 He can really throw.
11:01 You watch a game, you think, eh, the Seahawks, they stink.
11:06 It turned out to be a great game.
11:08 One other thing now, Philadelphia's lost three in a row.
11:11 I want to say they're dead.
11:14 They're going to get knocked off in the playoffs.
11:16 If they play the Niners, the Niners will kill them.
11:19 Not beat them, kill them.
11:21 Yeah.
11:22 They're like a fighter that got exposed.
11:24 They don't even believe in themselves anymore.
11:26 No way.
11:27 There's turmoil in their coaching staff.
11:31 They got the Jalop who used to be at look up Jalop if you want, used to be in Detroit
11:38 and now all of a sudden he was calling the plays on defense.
11:44 What's his name?
11:45 Matt Patricia.
11:46 There's love.
11:47 He's a Jalop.
11:49 Listen, I got to tell, we've told it before.
11:52 I have, I don't like Matt Patricia.
11:55 When he was the head coach in Detroit where he sucked, this was on the news.
12:03 There was, you know, they had the Monday press conference day after and he's standing up
12:07 on the podium wherever they have it in their stadium.
12:10 And I guess one of the reporters was slouching in his chair.
12:14 You know, we get tired too.
12:16 And so he said to them, you don't sit like that.
12:19 Sit up straight.
12:21 He's telling the reporter how to sit.
12:23 I thought that was just incredible.
12:25 And I felt, you know, the reporter couldn't, but he could have said lose 50 pounds, which
12:31 apparently he's done now.
12:32 Right.
12:33 I know.
12:34 And when you watch the Eagles with their offense, do they call plays like they have confidence
12:37 in their quarterback?
12:38 Absolutely not.
12:40 They work around them.
12:41 It's like third and six and it's a handoff.
12:44 It's like, huh?
12:45 What?
12:46 Yeah.
12:47 Didn't you just make this guy the highest paid player in football?
12:48 Why are you calling plays like you don't trust him to throw the ball on third and six?
12:51 What are you doing?
12:52 Right.
12:53 Did we finish our quarterback?
12:54 No, I, what I want you to do is no, no, no.
12:58 Explain what it is specifically that the Niners want from Brock Purdy.
13:03 It seems all they need him to do is see the field quickly, make a, make a, be decisive
13:10 and be accurate.
13:11 Make a pass rushers, miss the game, move a little bit in the pocket, make a couple plays
13:16 a game, but essentially find the open man as quickly as possible.
13:19 Jimmy couldn't do it.
13:21 Not sure that Trey could do it.
13:22 Brock can do it.
13:23 He can do it like Drew Brees.
13:24 He's just a little computer.
13:26 Boom.
13:27 There it is.
13:28 It's like Terminator.
13:29 He's seeking this little computer.
13:30 Yeah, yeah.
13:31 A computer, right?
13:32 And it's a, it's a pleasure to watch him do it.
13:36 And other quarterbacks like Dak Prescott, I don't believe was at his level on what you've
13:41 just described.
13:44 I don't think so.
13:45 It seems like Brock is off the charts and just seeing the field not easy to do.
13:49 It seems like he doesn't even go through progressions.
13:51 He just intuits where the opening is going to be.
13:54 A lot of times Kyle's like, I don't even know.
13:55 I got, it was the fourth guy in the progression.
13:57 I have no idea how he saw that.
13:59 I've heard him say that a million times about Brock Purdy.
14:01 And it seems like that's a unique compliment to give a quarterback.
14:07 Yes.
14:08 And you had mentioned to me the other day in Kyle's offense, there, someone's gonna be
14:13 open.
14:14 Yeah.
14:15 Look at their five eligible receivers are Christian McCaffrey, Debo Samuel, Brandon
14:20 Iuke, George Kittle and Jawan Jennings or Kyle Juszczyk.
14:24 Five of the best players, their position in the league.
14:26 Someone's at least one guy's going to be open and with Kyle Shanahan drawing it up, there
14:29 could be multiple guys open.
14:31 So it's just on the quarterback to like, see it and not hesitate and be accurate.
14:36 Right.
14:37 He's all three of those things.
14:38 He's so confident.
14:40 It's not like Alex Smith where he sees it and he's like, should I throw it?
14:44 Do I, do I want to throw it?
14:46 Do I want to throw it?
14:47 Can I put this off?
14:48 Yeah.
14:49 Right.
14:50 And I think that's a great question.
14:51 He's perfect for the 49ers.
14:52 Perfect.
14:53 I just, I just wonder, I mean, his other quarterback, I'd love to know what Jake Browning could
14:56 do.
14:57 Would he be better than, than Brock Purdy?
14:58 I don't know.
14:59 Would any quarterback be better than, than Brock Purdy for the 49ers?
15:01 Because again, it's not just that he has the perfect skillset for what they're looking
15:04 to do.
15:05 He's the perfect salary for what they're looking to do.
15:07 He plays for free.
15:08 Okay.
15:09 Explain why the salary is and why it makes him the most, literally the most valuable
15:14 player.
15:15 Well, it's a salary cap league and the quarterbacks are the most important, the most expensive
15:19 position.
15:20 So every team has to work around one player making $35 million a year, except the Niners,
15:24 because he's making $900,000.
15:25 So instead of spending that money on a quarterback, they can get three really expensive defensive
15:31 linemen.
15:32 They can get a really expensive running back, two really expensive wide receivers, the most
15:36 expensive tight end, a really expensive corner, the really expensive linebacker.
15:41 And you can just build an entire team and say, we're going to elevate the quarterback.
15:46 And that's what they wanted to do.
15:48 And they've had someone who's even better than they expected.
15:50 They could be winning with probably Nick Mullins at this freaking point.
15:53 I don't know how much they can win, but now they have someone who fits their price point,
15:58 who allows them to have the best roster possible.
16:00 And he elevates it.
16:02 You had mentioned to me, they had to get rid of DeForest Buckner, a great player because
16:07 they had paid Jimmy so much.
16:09 That's right.
16:10 But now, because they're not paying Brock so much, they could get Hargrave.
16:14 Right.
16:15 And this is the team they should have had when they had to choose between DeForest Buckner
16:21 and Eric Armstead.
16:22 That was a choice that Jimmy Garoppolo forced him to make.
16:25 If you don't have a quarterback who's expensive, have them both.
16:27 Look at how good this team is.
16:29 And now all of a sudden, yes, the quarterback's the most important position, but you're not
16:32 winning and losing because of the quarterback position every week.
16:36 He's just another one of the great players in your team.
16:39 Let me ask you a question.
16:40 When you watch Brock Purdy play, he drops back to pass or he runs somewhere to the right
16:46 to pass.
16:47 Do you have confidence he's going to complete the pass?
16:50 Always.
16:51 You know why?
16:52 Because the confidence oozes out of him.
16:55 It's like dripping through the screen.
16:58 As opposed to Jimmy Garoppolo, who is jittery, his feet would start patting.
17:01 Remember that?
17:02 Patting.
17:03 Yeah, like that.
17:04 Yeah.
17:05 You just look at one thing and start patting his feet like, man, he's not open.
17:10 You know he's not open.
17:11 Look at someone else.
17:12 And Brock is just relaxed.
17:14 So relaxed.
17:15 So confident.
17:16 His confidence reminds me of the way Aaron Rodgers used to always be.
17:19 Borderline bored.
17:20 Right.
17:21 Borderline bored.
17:22 This is so easy.
17:25 And the other thing, I have confidence every time he's going to throw that he's going to
17:29 make it.
17:30 Often, I have confidence when they get the ball on offense that they're going to go down
17:35 the field and score a touchdown.
17:37 I'm surprised when they don't.
17:39 Yes.
17:40 And we have a stat about that in a little bit that we're going to get to.
17:43 Okay.
17:44 All right.
17:45 I just think with the Niners as shown, it's smart to build.
17:49 They didn't draft Patrick Mahomes.
17:50 And a lot of people thought they were really stupid for that, which they probably were.
17:54 But they built a team that was ready-made for a quarterback to step in.
17:59 And all of a sudden, they have the best team in football now.
18:01 And they could have it for a while.
18:03 So it took them a while, but the vision worked out so far.
18:06 Yeah.
18:07 Yeah.
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