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49ers HC Kyle Shanahan Discusses Brock Purdy's Disappointing Season

Brock Purdy may have cost himself big money this season.

Grant Cohn

Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
Dec 30, 2024; Santa Clara, California, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy (13) warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images / Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images
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Brock Purdy may have cost himself big money this season.

He'll be eligible for a contract extension next week. And he currently ranks 16th among NFL quarterbacks in completion percentage, 13th in touchdown passes, 14th in quarterback rating and fourth in interceptions.

Most importantly, his record is 6-9, and he's largely to blame. Because in the second half this season, he has 8 touchdown passes and 10 picks. When the 49ers have needed him to be the man, he has been the problem. He has thrown no game-winning touchdown passes in his career, but he certainly has thrown a few game-losing interceptions.

On Tuesday, head coach Kyle Shanahan was asked how Purdy is handling his disappointing season.

“I think he's handled this year head on," Shanahan said. "He hasn't ran from anything. He’s attacked everything, plays as hard as he can and works as hard as he can and comes in always on Mondays and Tuesdays and faces the truth of everything and comes back and grinds and tries to get better each week. I guess I can talk about him more at the end of the year, but I thought last night he was disappointed in the turnovers, he was disappointed in the loss. But just, kind of how he always is.”

Shanahan was simultaneously praising Brock for how's handled his his bad season while acknowledging that he's having a bad season. That's "the truth of everything." Despite Purdy's best intentions, he's turning the ball over when it matters and losing.

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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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