San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is not a player to shy away from a challenge.
He went from being “Mr Irrelevant” to earning an outside chance to be the league MVP, and if he can get his team across the line against the Detroit Lions, he will be in line to win a Superbowl ring. Mr Relevant in the house.
He will no doubt bounce back from an inconsistent match against the Packers and is forthright about his strengths and weaknesses.
“For me you’re real with yourself,” Purdy said on the team transcript. “You understand where you’re at as a quarterback, how you played. It doesn’t matter if you played good or bad, like I don’t take really any of that with you the next week, it’s a new game, it’s a new scheme, it’s a new environment.
The 262nd pick in the 2022 draft has shown up nearly every one of the 261 players chosen before him.
He only threw for 23-39 passes against the Packers in a 24-21 win, but what he did managed to land, he did so with devastating effect.
“Everything about it is new. So it’s almost like you’ve got to clean the slate, learn from the mistakes, build off of the good things that you’ve done. But it’s a new game. That’s the mental battle that I feel like all the NFL quarterbacks go through.
Purdy played college out of Iowa State Cyclones, hardly a national winning program, and he has been stepping out of his own shadow since then, no matter how new and unfamiliar the territory.
“I think that’s where the great ones really separate themselves from the others. So yeah, that’s how I look at it.”
Purdy has earned his first Pro Bowl nomination this season, now for the NFC title then a shot at the whole nine yards, even if it is nine yards at a time.
