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George Kittle Defends Brock Purdy

On Thursday in the 49ers locker room, George Kittle defended Purdy strongly. Here's what Kittle said.
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George Kittle Defends Brock Purdy
George Kittle Defends Brock Purdy

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SANTA CLARA -- Everyone on the 49ers agrees that they lost to the Ravens because they turned the ball over so much, meaning they lost because Brock Purdy turned the ball over so much. Essentially, it's all his fault, even if he was the victim of some bad luck.

On Thursday in the 49ers locker room, George Kittle defended Purdy strongly. Here's what Kittle said:

Q: Brock was just saying that in the second half against the Ravens, he was stuck between being playing the position and trying to erase the deficit all at once. He hasn't been in that situation before. Did you notice anything in terms of the way he approached the end of that game with those picks?

KITTLE: "I thought Brock stayed pretty consistent to the things he has done. I think Brock is trying to give you guys good answers. I don't really know. There might have been a couple plays where he didn't have to force something and could have checked it down, but I'm not going to tell Brock how to play the position. I trust his instincts. He has done a great job the last two seasons. However he wants to play the quarterback position, I'm okay with it."

It's refreshing to hear a star player speak so deferentially about the 49ers quarterback. No one ever spoke deferentially about Garoppolo. When the 49ers lost, the team seemed to lose confidence in him.

Kittle clearly hasn't lost confidence in Purdy. Now we'll have to see if Purdy has lost confidence in Purdy when he plays this Sunday against the Commanders.

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Grant Cohn
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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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