[Lombardi] Brock Purdy is #1 in NFL QB efficiency by a huge margin playing behind a 49ers’ offensive line that ranks #28 in pass-blocking grade. @benbbaldwin ‘s graph shows just how much of an outlier Purdy is:

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  1. Wow I’ve been saying it over and over over. He gets the worst pass blocking and still makes a lot happen.

    Last night Mahomes specially at the end seemed to have all day to throw. His receivers just dropped catchable passes

  2. Brady but mobile. He’s basically god

    The greatest human to exist

    Also someone post this to nfl because of the oline stat. People think we’re stacked everywhere

  6. I mean last game and one before they did decent. They struggle more when they have play makers out. Having Deebo cmc and Trent back helps the team big time. We also have receivers that are open by miles too so gotta take that in to account.

  7. He won’t get media recognition until he wins a superbowl. He’s just not exciting enough in their calculations.

  10. really hoping with at this time a projected 11 picks in the 2024 draft the 49ers finally address OL with a couple of those early round picks specifically in the first 3-4 rounds where they’ll have a 1st, 2nd, but two picks in both the 3rd & 4th rounds

    i’ve thought shanahan probably values skilled position players more than pass blocking and if you look at the very least his draft picks that’s been the case as the 49ers have spent an endless amount of picks addressing both RB and WR since 2017

    just in the first 3 rounds the 49ers have used a total of 8 picks on WR & RB

    RB – sermon, davis-price

    WR – pettis (2 picks), samuel, hurd, aiyuk, gray

    for OL they’ve used only 2 picks within the 3 rounds on OL with mcglinchey and banks

    course the 49ers traded for williams and tomlinson but they also traded 2 picks for sanders too in 2019 and of course for mccaffrey in 2022 for 3 picks

    i think shanahan believes he needs real talent at his skilled positional players to make this offense work but he possibly thinks he can “scheme” for an OL that even is league average or is okay at best

  11. I said this in the other thread of this chart, but just for visibility and because this topic is really interesting to me, I’ll add it here, too:

    I love this chart but whenever I see a huge outlier like this, it makes me wonder two things:

    Why?
    Can it hold up over time?

    I’m not smart enough to answer these questions but here’s my attempt:

    From what I’ve seen, Purdy has been getting a TON of pressure. Teams seem to love to blitz the ever living shit out of us. This causes us to give up pressures, not just because our line is not super great but blitzes in general do what they are designed to do, get pressure.

    Clearly, Purdy is an elite processor and is making teams pay for these blitzes. When teams blitz, they are creating a hole somewhere in their coverage. Purdy is highly effective at finding it, and exploiting it.

    So, can it hold up? I think so, as long as the blitz continues to gets stuffed just enough to give him time to get the ball out.

    I wonder if teams stopped trying so hard to blitz him, and tried a more coverage focused defense, disguising coverages, keeping more guys back, trying to clog the anticipatory zones he throws to, if that might be more effective for them?

  12. Crazy thing imo about our awful pass protection is that our run heavy/play action scheme helps mitigate how bad our O-line is, yet we’re still really bad.

    We also keep Kittle as an extra blocker on a lot of drop back passes, and CMC is quietly one of the league’s best RB’s at blitz pick ups. There are parts of our scheme that do a lot of heavy lifting to help our O-line in passing situations.

    But then we’ll have recurring pass pro design errors (or mental errors) on certain drop backs that completely ruin the play.

    I agree with JT O’Sullivan’s take on our pass blocking when he said:

    >[“The issue with protecting the Quarterback in the drop back game has been an issue in this offense for years. In my opinion, they don’t spend near enough time in this type of stuff, with these kinds of tools and checks for the Quarterback to be able to have answers. To me this is just unsound, and this flirts with how people get hurt playing Quarterback. And it’d be one thing if this happened every once in a while. It’s another because it’s happening multiple times in this game. That’s a free runner on your Quarterback. There’s some disconnect between the pass pro unit, the design, and the execution…”](https://youtu.be/k_-Ryl1h9cw?feature=shared&t=960)

    Obviously Purdy’s so good he’s been able to overcome our sieve of an O-line, but he basically has to dodge free rushers and do his best matador impersonation several times per game. As a fan it’d be easy to place all the blame on our O-linemen, but there seems to be pass pro design issues that allow these free rushers.

  14. It helps when you have 2 pro bowl receivers, a pro bowl tight end and 2 pro bowl backs lol. Purdy is a young Zeus

  15. O line is trash and it will be what costs this team everything if knocked out of playoff contention. Hopefully Lynch and company invest heavily into it next off-season. Purdy injury should have encouraged acquisitions last off-season.

    This and Wilks play calling duties. He has an overly talented defensive team who is just playing average Passing Defense. Turnovers and Niners Offense is what’s keeping them from being exposed. See Baker Mayfield Bucs last week and any above average QB stats lines.

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