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Amy Trask Says Brock Purdy is the Worst QB in the Playoffs

A controversial thing to say, considering Purdy led the league in quarterback rating this season and probably will be a finalist for the MVP award.
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Amy Trask Says Brock Purdy is the Worst QB in the Playoffs
Amy Trask Says Brock Purdy is the Worst QB in the Playoffs

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Brock Purdy still hasn't won over all his critics.

Former Oakland Raiders CEO Amy Trask recently went on a podcast and shared her opinion that Purdy is the worst quarterback remaining in the NFL -- a controversial thing to say, considering Purdy led the league in quarterback rating this season and probably will be a finalist for the MVP award.

Here's what Trask said:

TRASK: "Four games this weekend. Eight quarterbacks. Seven terrific quarterbacks, and Brock Purdy. Now Brock Purdy is a good quarterback, make no mistake about it, be calm 49ers fans. I'm not suggesting Brock's not a good quarterback. He is. I simply don't put him in the same category as the other quarterbacks."

Q: What do you not like about him?

TRASK: "It's not that I don't like him. He does things very well. He is surrounded by a tremendous supporting cast both on offense and defense. He is a good quarterback. I don't put him in the category of the other seven."

I interpret Trask's comments as good-natured ribbing from an Oakland Raider to a San Francisco 49er. Raiders aren't supposed to like 49ers. I'm guessing Al Davis thought Joe Montana was a system quarterback, too.

Here's how I would rank the remaining quarterbacks in the playoffs:

1. Patrick Mahomes. One of the best quarterbacks ever.

2. Josh Allen. No team wants to face him because he can single handedly beat anyone. He also can single handedly beat himself, which he might do this weekend.

3. Lamar Jackson. The best player in the NFL during the regular season. Jackson still hasn't had a dominant playoff performance, though.

4. C.J. Stroud. One of the most impressive rookie quarterbacks ever.

5. Brock Purdy. An MVP candidate in his first full season as a starter, which is extremely impressive.

6. Jordan Love. Has been good for only the past 10 weeks, but during this time he has been elite. Can do everything.

7. Baker Mayfield. On his fourth team. Seems more serious about his craft than when he was younger. Tough, mobile enough and has a strong arm.

8. Jared Goff. On his second team. Delivers the ball well when he has time and space in the pocket. Folds with bodies around him. Not particularly tough.

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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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