All of us recognize the best throw of Thursdays game against the Seahawk was the deep ball to Aiyuk.
One of the interesting nuggets post game was Shanahan saying he was surprised by that play because it was supposed to be a check down. Brock took the shot.
And this is when I realized, Brock is what Shanahan has needed. The one criticism that is fair to levy on Shanahan is that he is often too conservative in big games. As great of a job he’s done. I think he gets too tight when the big games come.
Enter Brock Purdy, a QB that has Shanahan’s complete confidence and who plays like he has nothing to lose. He’s BCB for a reason. The approach may hurt us sometimes. But you need those guts when the game matters most. I can’t imagine a more perfect compliment to Shanahan.
It wasn’t “supposed” to be a checkdown. What Kyle said was, he thought he would take the check down since the LBs dropped so deep.
This notion that Kyle is a conservative play caller is ludicrous. He just simply has the QB to hit the deep shots that Jimmy couldn’t.
His offense was far from conservative when he had Matt Ryan in Atlanta.
I somewhat disagree here. Kyle is a “controlling” play caller (conservative??). Meaning he want the plays to be executed THE WAY he designs them to be executed. Having a QB who goes off script bothers him.
Will he eventually trust Brock completely and adapt his play calling style to be a bit less “controlling”. Maybe.
An example is when Kyle said that the pick 6 was partially his fault. Why? Because he gave Purdy the CHOICE to flip to a pass play there. And he probably shouldn’t have.
Welp, so much for Kyle / trust.