Deebo talked that talk and backed it up…

The best thing to do, is to stop worrying about what other people think. They don’t matter right now.

The 50 media people who vote for MVP don’t matter either. That award isn’t the goal, winning a Superbowl is (and in the last 25 years only two QBs won that award and went on to win a Superbowl).

The only thing that matters is that we get to enjoy watching an elite QB on our team and he’s only in his second year as well. This can go on for a while.

If he keeps playing like that, people will have a hard time denying it. They can give Hurts the MVP and in the future people will laugh at that and say Purdy was robbed. It’s fine. We’ve seen that in sports before.

I wasn’t at candlestick for that play, was watching on TV, ever since then I treat getting pinned, or pinning a team, inside the 5 differently.

No, the average of points scored against you is not how you win games. Football is a little more complicated than that…

PPG alone can be misleading.

For example, against the Bengals one of their scoring drives was a single pass play for a 17 yard TD after a Purdy pick. The defense was put in a bad spot there. Hard to blame them for that one.

In the last game, the defense was only responsible for one drive that ended in a FG, the other FG was from a long kickoff and the TD was a pick six (usually you’d ignore that, but you still had it as 13)

On the flip side, if you’re trailing in a game and need the ball back, a long drive with a lot of 3rd conversions that kills the clock but doesn’t end in points is still bad defense.

If you really want to see how the defense is doing you need to look at more than PPG.

We all saw in the last two games before the bye the tackling was all of a sudden an issue and the pass rush wasn’t getting there. Dre was playing hurt, the bye really helped him get back. Adding Chase also made a huge difference, and Wilks made some adjustments as well as others already mentioned.

I assumed it will take Wilks time to get up to speed with this defense being an outsider coming in, just like it took Saleh a long time. With the way our offense is looking, if Wilks can keep the defense in the top 5 they should be unstoppable.

No, it’s not a no-brainer. I’d say it’s not even an option, even if Saleh is available, unless Wilks gets another head coaching opportunity.

We were all frustrated by the defense during that 3 game losing streak, but they weren’t really that bad, just not as great as we expected them to be. They’re still a top 5 defense and they’re back to dominating now.

Thinking it’s a bad defense and we need to get rid of Wilks is like thinking Purdy is a system QB. It’s a narrative that isn’t based on facts. Maybe people are saying that in NY media, but they’ve been out of touch with everything 49ers for a while…

For me it’s Cowboys, Packers, Toots, Giants.

Meeting teams multiple times in the playoffs, especially when the NFC was dominant, means more than 2 regular season games.

The Chiefs and the Eagles are teams I don’t like and not just because we lost to them in big games in recent years, but it’s not a rivalry. It’s just shitty fanbases.

I understand the Bay Area rivalry with the Raiders for many, but they were an LA team when I became a 49ers fan in the late 80s. I’d see their fans around the bay but they were irrelevant this whole time. They were only really good when Jerry went to play for them. I’d say the Raiders aren’t on even my radar.

The first 10 minutes has some Harbaugh stories from Alex Boone as well.

Some people still can’t deal with the Steelers’ record because they saw that week 1 beatdown…

Wait, this is a new article? I’m pretty sure I read an article about exactly that before the season

Because he’s Chase Young and he’s on a contract year?

Trent and Deebo coming back will help the offense.

If Chase is enough to fix the defense, if they can dominate the line and not give receivers time to get open, that will help the offense as well (not having to play from behind, which has always been a problem for Kyle’s offense)

They didn’t want to pay him because he can’t stay healthy so they got something for him instead of letting him walk.

If you look at that way, they didn’t get fleeced they extracted whatever value they could.

That’s just one game in the regular season right now, it doesn’t really matter

Those INTs were frustrating, more because of how Purdy has played until now.

If you compare him to other QBs in their first couple of seasons, it doesn’t look as bad.

As bad as the defense has looked, they still somehow only gave up 14 and it’s a 4 point game. It feels like it should be a lot worst

Last season he was away the last two months of the regular season for personal reasons, which also meant he wasn’t the same for the playoffs. That’s probably why some have forgotten how good Wiggins can be

Yea, I want Purdy benched every fourth quarter just like Steph and Klay used to get benched in 4th quarters.

Because he was picked last in the draft and won his first 10 games. There’s a big contradiction in that, even a top pick isn’t expected to perform like that so a last pick?

People are truing to justify not having him on any list or draft mock.

This is standard “next man up” talk. Even if players don’t believe it, they’ll still say it.