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Why Brock Purdy’s Stock is Up

Immediately after the game, I gave Purdy a B for his performance. But after watching the film and realizing how the 49ers failed to put him in positions to succeed, I'd raise his grade to a B-plus or an A-minus.
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Why Brock Purdy’s Stock is Up
Why Brock Purdy’s Stock is Up

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The 49ers thoroughly embarrassed themselves in their latest Super Bowl loss, but Brock Purdy's stock went up.

No, he didn't play quite well enough to beat Patrick Mahomes, but also was far from the reason the 49ers lost. As opposed to Kyle Shanahan who couldn't figure out how to pick up a blitz, or Christian McCaffrey who fumbled, or George Kittle who gained four yards and failed to recover the fumble because he was talking during the play, or Deebo Samuel who caught 3 of 11 targets or Trent Williams who committed two penalties and got pushed around all game. Those five 49ers' stocks went down.

Despite those players falling short in the crisis moment, despite chaos all around him, Purdy didn't turn the ball over. In fact, he threw a touchdown pass and made some incredible plays. To the best of his ability, he overcame his coach and his teammates, something we haven't seen him do before.

Immediately after the game, I gave Purdy a B for his performance. But after watching the film and realizing how the 49ers failed to put him in positions to succeed, I'd raise his grade to a B-plus or an A-minus.

And Purdy was even more impressive after the game than during it, because he took full responsibility for the loss even though he didn't have to, as opposed to Shanahan who threw everyone under the bus and took zero accountability himself.

Purdy is the quarterback and the leader the 49ers need. If only Shanahan were more like him.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

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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