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Brock Purdy Says the 49ers Need to Man Up

Sunday after the 49ers lost their seventh game, I asked Brock Purdy to make of the terrible season the 49ers are having. Here's what he said.

Grant Cohn

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy relays the play in the huddle during first half action of their home game against the San Francisco 49ers in Orchard Park on Dec. 1, 2024.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy relays the play in the huddle during first half action of their home game against the San Francisco 49ers in Orchard Park on Dec. 1, 2024. / Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat and Chronicle / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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Sunday after the 49ers lost their seventh game, I asked Brock Purdy to make of the terrible season the 49ers are having. Here's what he said.

ME: How do you wrap your head around how you've gotten yourself in this position as a team?

PURDY: "It sucks. All the game that we've been in outside the last two. Every drive matters. Every time you touch the ball matters. Finishing close games matters. And so now, here we are, 5-7. That's just the reality of it in the NFL We have to man up and do something about it. We have the right guys in the locker room to do that. I know that. I have faith in that. And it starts with myself. I have to do my job better. Everybody just has to be accountable and come together and make it happen."

Q: How do you view the next five games?

PURDY: "Every game has to be must-win for us. We don't have any room clearly. If we want to make the playoffs and get ahead and do the thing that we set out to do before the season, every game is a must-win. That's plain as day. We all know that. Like I said, we all have to be accountable and grow from it. We don't have a lot of room for error right now. We have to go."

Q: How odd does it feel not having Trent Williams, Nick Bosa, Brandon Aiyuk or Christian McCaffrey?

PURDY: "Obviously those are some guys who have a lot of credibility with their careers and what they've done and are the best of the best. When you don't have their presence around, you can feel that it's not there. And so yeah, it stinks. But at the same time, it's the NFL. We do have guys who can step in and do their jobs well. So we've all got to grow up here and grow together. We can still get it done."

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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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