Analyzing why the San Francisco 49ers are the overwhelming Super Bowl favorite.
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00:00 It seems like this is the Niners year to win the Super Bowl.
00:05 I don't know if they're going to win the Super Bowl, but it doesn't seem like there's really
00:10 anyone in their way.
00:12 It doesn't seem like they're going to get much better than they are right now.
00:16 What do you think?
00:17 Is this their year?
00:18 It's got to be, man.
00:19 Honestly, I feel like this year and next year are really high chances of winning the Super
00:24 Bowl.
00:25 Think about Brock Purdy.
00:26 First of all, let me just say this.
00:27 I'm a Brock Purdy fan right now.
00:29 I have evolved from a skeptic to just a straight up fan.
00:37 What I saw from Brock Purdy yesterday was just to me the best thing I've seen in a long
00:42 time.
00:43 This team is now a dynamic, passionate team.
00:47 They can run the ball really well.
00:50 Best in the NFL maybe, possibly, probably.
00:52 They can also pass the ball at all levels.
00:55 They can dink and dunk if that's what the game plan calls for.
00:58 They can hit you in the intermediate or they can take the top off and go, "That's what
01:02 I've been missing, Grant.
01:04 This is what I've been missing since Kat."
01:08 Brock Purdy is the cure for Jimmy G PTSD.
01:11 There's a quote from Brock, man.
01:13 I don't know who asked him.
01:14 I know you were there.
01:16 They talked about Brock Purdy's evolution from last year to this year.
01:19 Someone asked him about him passing deep this year.
01:22 He says, "Was I afraid to go deep last year?
01:24 I don't think so.
01:25 This year I feel like I'm just more aware of what our offense is.
01:29 If the defense gives us a look, I'm ready for it.
01:31 I have taken deep shots this year."
01:34 Even Brock Purdy knows that this year is different from last year.
01:38 I believe last year he was two for six, 33% with an interception over 30 yards.
01:42 This year the guy is 17 for 23 with, I think, six touchdowns over 30 yards.
01:49 It's night and day difference.
01:51 Even Brock realizes it.
01:52 That's what's been missing from this 49ers team.
01:54 The entire time Kyle Shanahan has been here with this roster, with Brock Purdy, and his
02:00 passing game, his running game, his defense, the depth.
02:03 This is the year, man.
02:04 I really believe.
02:05 I think this is the year.
02:06 Yeah.
02:07 I mean, I think what's interesting about this team, it feels like it's the most complete
02:11 team in the league.
02:12 We've known it, but if you have a quarterback making $900,000 a year, then you really can
02:17 have no weaknesses.
02:19 Every week you see these teams in the Niners' face.
02:21 They're just riddled with weaknesses.
02:24 None of these teams are complete.
02:26 They're like, "Well, you got this and this, but really you have none of that."
02:31 Every week, and the Niners are the one team in the league that's not even built that way.
02:34 We're thinking about when they get to the Super Bowl, maybe they'll face the Chiefs.
02:38 Chiefs are not built that way.
02:40 The Chiefs, they have a hero at quarterback.
02:42 In the AFC, some teams with some heroes at quarterback, but there isn't a complete team
02:46 like the Niners.
02:47 We thought the Eagles were that, but they're not.
02:48 They're frauds.
02:49 At a certain point, the Niners are going to have to pay Brock Purdy, and there'll be a
02:53 normal team like the rest of the league, but right now, they're working with a stacked
02:58 deck.
02:59 They absolutely should win the Super Bowl this year.
03:01 A stacked deck, and the quarterback is playing phenomenal.
03:04 It's not just that he's cheap, but he's cheap and playing like the best quarterback in the
03:08 NFL right now.
03:10 I'm a big Patrick Mahomes guy.
03:12 I still think he's probably the best quarterback in the NFL.
03:14 If I had a gun to my head, I had to pick, that's who I'm picking.
03:17 But it's stocked down a little bit based on his behavior after the Bills game, just whining
03:23 and complaining.
03:26 I don't know, man.
03:27 I see the 49ers as the all-around best team in the NFL, and Brock Purdy's playing like
03:34 the best quarterback right now.
03:35 It's crazy.
03:36 I cannot ... If you would have told me that all this was going to happen last year, I
03:41 wouldn't have believed you.
03:43 The fact that just the story of him and just coming off of UCLA ... He hasn't even had
03:47 an off-season yet.
03:48 That's why I think the next two years, not only this year, it's next year too, because
03:51 they're going to be able to retain a lot of these players, and Brock Purdy's going to
03:55 have a whole off-season to prepare for the season.
04:00 I can't believe how much of a Brock Purdy fan I am.
04:01 I never expected this guy to be like this.
04:04 It's freaking great, man.
04:06 Well, I think we just haven't seen a 49ers quarterback improve like this in a long time.
04:11 Maybe it's because they have ... I keep coming back to the salary thing, but he still has
04:15 to earn that next contract.
04:17 With Jimmy Garoppolo, he had a five-game audition, and they paid him.
04:22 All of a sudden, he became one of the highest-paid players in the league, and he wasn't proven.
04:26 Colin Kaepernick played a season and a half, and then they paid him, became one of the
04:29 highest-paid players in the league, still wasn't really proven.
04:32 By the time Brock Purdy gets paid, he's going to be proven.
04:35 He's going to have started two and a half seasons, been to three different playoffs,
04:40 most likely, if he stays healthy.
04:42 You'll know exactly what you're getting, whether he's elite or not.
04:44 It's trending that he will be.
04:47 That's a good thing.
04:48 He needs to ... This is like the Joe Montana thing.
04:50 You're just a guy.
04:52 You got to grind.
04:53 You got to prove yourself, and by the time you do, you might just end up being a Super
04:56 Bowl winner.
04:57 I think we haven't seen a quarterback this earnestly working on his craft in a long time.
05:01 Jimmy seemed like he was sort of like the lifestyle.
05:04 Colin Tudor would agree.
05:05 Guys who like being on the red carpet, things like that.
05:07 That's not what Brock is, at least yet.
05:10 Yeah, and two big differences, Brock over Jimmy and Kaep.
05:14 Brock wants to continuously be better.
05:16 He wants to be great, and he's willing to put in the work, and he knows he has things
05:20 that he can still improve on, I'm sure, especially coming off from last year.
05:24 To me, he gets better.
05:25 He looks at himself every week and is like, "Oh, I could do this better.
05:28 I could do that better," whereas with Jimmy, I don't think he cared.
05:33 I don't think Kaep ... I think Kaep's ego is a little too big, where he just thought
05:37 he was already there.
05:40 He already arrived and didn't have to work on anything.
05:44 I got to interview Kaep.
05:45 I like Kaep.
05:46 He was super nice to me, but people talk about, "Are you going to work on your mechanics?"
05:51 He had some big, loompy, wump, and he was offended by it.
05:54 He was like, "No, I'm good."
05:57 With Brock, it's just humble, and maybe a lot of it is because of how he entered the
06:01 league last pick in the draft, Mr. Irrelevant, making $900,000.
06:05 He's still got to go out there and prove himself through next year before he can get paid.
06:12 I also just think it's who he is.
06:13 He's just a humble, good guy, smart guy.
06:18 He focused on the right things.
06:20 Family and football.
06:21 He's that kind of ... Faith, family, and football.
06:23 You've heard that expression a ton of times.
06:25 That's who Brock Purdy is.
06:26 I think $400,000 is just really fortunate.
06:29 Even when he has to get paid, if he plays like this, there's still might be in good
06:33 shape, man.
06:34 Yeah, I think so, too.
06:37 The one thing I want to say is that the Niners are in the NFC, and they're beating up on
06:41 some bad teams.
06:42 The NFC is trash.
06:43 I just want to point that out.
06:46 There's five good teams in the NFC, maybe.
06:50 Even the good teams aren't that good.
06:51 In the NFC, there's 11 teams over 500.
06:52 I guess the AFC, the Niners are two and two, I believe.
07:00 Are they two and two?
07:03 Who are they beating?
07:04 Pittsburgh?
07:05 They beat the Steelers, and they beat-
07:08 They lost to Cleveland, Cincinnati.
07:11 Who else is in their league?
07:14 The Ravens, we still got to play.
07:16 The Jaguars?
07:17 They beat the Jags.
07:18 Jaguars, yeah.
07:19 Two and two.
07:20 Yeah, but you're right.
07:21 This Christmas game, to me, is a Super Bowl preview.
07:26 I've been predicting the Niners are going to the Super Bowl for the last three or four
07:31 weeks, also the Ravens.
07:33 So I think this could definitely be a preview of the Super Bowl.
07:36 I don't know.
07:37 Some of the Chiefs I'm not believing in this year.
07:39 I just think Lamar Jackson.
07:41 Yeah, I know, right?
07:42 Yeah.
07:43 Something about the Ravens to me.
07:44 They lost to the Eagles.
07:45 Yeah, they lost to the Lions.
07:49 There's something just missing a little bit from the Chiefs.
07:52 I don't expect them to go nowhere long term.
07:54 I still think they're going to be a threat for years to come.
07:57 But this year, I don't know.
07:58 I feel like it's the Ravens year.
07:59 So I think this game on Christmas, to your point, it's a really good test.
08:03 It's the best team in the NFC.
08:06 There goes Grant.
08:07 Best team in the NFC.
08:08 I'm still here.
08:09 Oh, yeah.
08:10 I can't see.
08:11 I feel like I'm out of focus.
08:12 I'm trying to restart my camera.
08:13 I feel like I'm out of focus.
08:14 All good, man.
08:15 Yeah, best team in the NFC versus best team in the AFC on Christmas.
08:18 Ravens and Niners.
08:19 That's going to be the ultimate test.
08:20 If they can get through that game.
08:22 Not only do I think they're going to go to the Super Bowl, they're going to win the Super
08:24 Bowl.
08:25 I bet money on it if they beat the Ravens.
08:27 Alex T. says, "Did you see Colin Cowherd shouted you out today?
08:30 He said he appreciates real journalists and SF asking the fundamental questions."
08:33 I thought he did that a couple of days ago.
08:35 Did he?
08:36 I thought he did that a couple of days ago.
08:37 Oh, because you asked him about the hat?
08:39 Yeah.
08:40 Yeah.
08:41 It was silly.
08:42 Daniel Garcia says, "Pretty crazy to think that Brock is a little under 800 yards away
08:45 from becoming the single season passing leader for SF.
08:48 Hell of a story."
08:50 Dude has the highest passer rating out of all quarterbacks in the history of NFL through
08:53 500 passes.
08:54 That's crazy.
08:55 In the history of the NFL, dude.
08:58 I do want to point out that he's essentially having the Matt Ryan season.
09:02 The Matt Ryan MVP season.
09:04 I mean, this is like the optimization of Kyle Sanahan's offense.
09:08 You could argue that this team has more talent than that team.
09:12 Julio Jones was great, but I mean, Muhammad Sanu, Taylor Gabriel, Devontae Freeman, Austin
09:20 Hooper, not exactly what the Niners are working with over here.
09:24 And frankly, I like Brock pretty better than Matt Ryan.
09:28 Matt Ryan, he had a bunch of middling seasons in the NFL and a great one season.
09:32 Didn't move at all.
09:34 Didn't have the strongest arm.
09:35 I'll take Brock Purdy over him.
09:36 He's having that season.
09:37 And I guess he's going to be the MVP.
09:39 And what's crazy, man, he's 23 years old.
09:41 He's in the 21st game started.
09:45 The NFL got to adjust to Brock Purdy and they still can't stop him.
09:50 They saw Brock Purdy first at games, had film on him, game plan for him.
09:55 Nothing is working.
09:56 He's able to attack you in every way.
09:58 And he's only 23.
10:00 So it's very encouraging for the future.
10:02 Funny box 5544.
10:03 So did you hear what Colin Cowart said about you today?
10:05 That was today.
10:06 I thought I heard it already.
10:07 Jose Ramirez says Kyle looks younger and happy.
10:09 Lol crazy.
10:10 What a good quarterback can do.
10:11 Let's go Purdy.
10:12 Also, what does Purdy need to do to be elite?
10:15 Super Bowl win.
10:16 Just keep doing what he's doing, man.
10:17 Just keep doing what you're doing.
10:18 Stay healthy.
10:19 Yeah, he's doing some.
10:20 It's just time.
10:21 Yeah, because I mean, he could like just absolutely disappear all of a sudden.
10:25 And then, you know, it happens, but I don't see it.
10:28 I don't foresee it happening.
10:29 So just more time.
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