Brock Purdy’s incoming Prime re-opening our SB window?
December 30, 2025
Brock Purdy’s incoming Prime re-opening our SB window?
30 comments
Yes, I hope so
Don’t say it. Don’t even think it.
Let BCB cook.
Don’t jinx it.
We need the crowd to be super loud this Sunday and put Darnold under pressure with regards to communication.
Our defense is young and energetic. They need to feed off the crowd energy.
Btw The 2006 Colts mentioned in the article had the worst rush defense in the NFL that year and even gave up a 300 yards rushing game to the Jags a few weeks before the SB.
This thing is doable
It never closed. For Brock’s whole career we’ve had teams that can win super bowls every year, we’ve just dealt with an unbelievable amount of injuries. Either way the roster should go into next season better on paper than this year with Aiyuk and Debo’s contracts off the books we’ll have all the money we need to resign the contributors who are free agents and hopefully add a few impact pieces.
the window is determined by the health and output of CMC, kittle, Trent, Warner, Bosa, and Juice.
With that strong of a base, taking advantage of current cap space to draft and sign free agents wisely could open anywhere from 1-4 more years.
I literally just want ONE ring guys. I think just seeing a ring happen would make me be ok with decades of ass because I’d at least have those highlights lmfao. Why can’t we atleast have what tampa has.
A QB is really all you need to have a window in this league.
I said it to all the doomers in the offseason and I’ll say it again now, windows don’t exist. It’s a nothing buzzword floated by B list ESPN talk shows until it found its way into the lexicon.
Our “window” has supposedly shut 3 times now in the Shanahan era alone. Yet every time, without fail, we’re still competing in the playoffs the next year. Good teams with good coaches and solid management are *always* at most 2 seasons away from contention. If you’ve already got your QB you’re even closer.
If you can make it to the playoffs, you can win it all. It’s that simple, always has been.
As long as CMC has a productive game, we have a chance.
How do you reopen something that wasn’t closed?
Absolutely. While trying to get the defense younger with key pieces who are signed. It’s health that’s holding us back. We would easily be the favorite to win this year if everyone is healthy. And I would bet a good amount that next year we will be one of the favorites for another Super Bowl run if key pieces return healthy.
A little health and some good draft picks and this could be a GREAT team. The key pieces are there.
Yeah, I don’t know why people are saying it closed. We should have a fair amount of cap room next year and could add a couple really good players, so if 13-4 is good with what we have, I don’t see why we wouldn’t be amongst the favorites next year with a good crop of rookies going into their 2nd season + getting back two HoFers + offseason adds.
As long as we have Brock and Shanahan, the window stays open.
You know what a game manager is? He’s the guy who continuously throws to check downs, whose drives end in field goals, whose main positive is that he doesn’t turn the ball over.
Brock Purdy is far beyond that.
Best qb in the division for the next 5 years. The window never closed.
“The 49ers have a really bad defense.”
That’s a strange thing to read, since we’re so used to the Niners having an elite defense that often drags the offense over the finish line. I really hope that Salah finds some solutions because we can’t rely on the offense to score 40 points every game in the playoffs. The defense is going to have to do its part.
Worth repeating, Brock’s cap hits:
This year- $9mil 25th amongst QBs
2026- $24.8mil which would be 16th on the current list
2027- $30.8mil which likely won’t be top
15 by the time it rolls around
2028- $57mil which sounds high now but if the cap keeps going up at the rate it’s going it would be manageable. Also the deal can easily be restructured at this point and in the HIGHLY unlikely situation that the Niners wanted to trade or cut Purdy (emphasis on HIGHLY unlikely) either could be done with relatively little dead cap money.
Everyone who has been waiting for the Niners demise when they had to “pay Purdy” are going to be waiting quite a while
One of the things I have said about Purdy getting paid is that he can no longer just be “not the problem”, he has to carry the offense and he’d been doing just that since he got back. The question now is whether or not this is the Brock Purdy we are going to get at least somewhat consistently or if this is just an abnormally-great stretch of games.
After that comes the defense. Are we ever going to get that other pass rusher opposite Bosa while Bosa is still great? If we don’t then I don’t think the window will be open in the same way it had been in previous years.
I get that some people are gonna be upset at that analysis because of our current record but keep in mind that our best players (aside from Purdy) are getting old, especially Trent and CMC (old for a RB) and we only get paired with the NFCS every three years. So while I think Brock being great CAN re-open our window, I don’t think it’s enough to guarantee it.
I still don’t understand where the “window closing” narrative even came from.. the 49ers window has been open for awhile now. Still open as it’s ever been. Warner will be back healthy next year. Hopefully bosa too. Williams looks like a promising draft pick and hopefully he’s back healthy. Kittle Purdy Shanahan. We will be just fine.
The only window is the Trent, Kyle, and Kittle window. They’ve gotta get those guys a ring. Long term, the franchise is set up for long term success
A couple of moves to reinforce the secondary and this defense can be scary again.
As long as Kyle Shanahan is our head coach we will be at worst a year away from another window opening.
Obviously
I mean I always looked at this year as a retool year not as our window being closed I’d still be surprised if we go on a run but it was a “come back in a year or two”
Windows aren’t real
Head coach + QB in sync = SB window. I’ve been saying this for years now…. We’re seeing it in real time right now.
The 49ers SB window will always be open as long as Kyle Shanahan is the HC of this team. He’s that good.
If you have a hall of fame QB and an elite coach, your SB window never completely slams shut. There will be times when the window is closed but it doesn’t take a ton of effort to reopen it with a new core of supporting pieces as long as the FO drafts/develops/signs those pieces properly, as long as your QB/coach foundation is rock solid. The Brady/Belichick dynasty is a good example where they won 3 titles early, then had around 10 years where they didn’t win a title, then had a 5 year span where they won 3 more with pieces vastly different than what they had 2001-2004, but the two main guys (QB and coach) were always there. You had Brees/Payton where they won the SB in 2009, had some success around the turn of the decade, faded in the mid 2010s, then had another resurgence in the late 2010s with a different cast of supporting players than what they had in the late 2000s/early 2010s. etc.
Time will tell if Purdy is truly a HOF level QB, but he is definitely a solid QB. Right now I think he’s more like Tony Romo (last pick vs undrafted, sneaky mobile but otherwise average physical traits, managed to put up good numbers) who is in the Hall of Very Good, but fingers crossed that Purdy eventually becomes Joe Montana 2.0.
Even the 49ers in the 1980s didn’t have a Super Bowl window every year. 1985-1986 especially were no chance.
30 comments
Yes, I hope so
Don’t say it. Don’t even think it.
Let BCB cook.
Don’t jinx it.
We need the crowd to be super loud this Sunday and put Darnold under pressure with regards to communication.
Our defense is young and energetic. They need to feed off the crowd energy.
Btw The 2006 Colts mentioned in the article had the worst rush defense in the NFL that year and even gave up a 300 yards rushing game to the Jags a few weeks before the SB.
This thing is doable
It never closed. For Brock’s whole career we’ve had teams that can win super bowls every year, we’ve just dealt with an unbelievable amount of injuries. Either way the roster should go into next season better on paper than this year with Aiyuk and Debo’s contracts off the books we’ll have all the money we need to resign the contributors who are free agents and hopefully add a few impact pieces.
the window is determined by the health and output of CMC, kittle, Trent, Warner, Bosa, and Juice.
With that strong of a base, taking advantage of current cap space to draft and sign free agents wisely could open anywhere from 1-4 more years.
I literally just want ONE ring guys. I think just seeing a ring happen would make me be ok with decades of ass because I’d at least have those highlights lmfao. Why can’t we atleast have what tampa has.
A QB is really all you need to have a window in this league.
I said it to all the doomers in the offseason and I’ll say it again now, windows don’t exist. It’s a nothing buzzword floated by B list ESPN talk shows until it found its way into the lexicon.
Our “window” has supposedly shut 3 times now in the Shanahan era alone. Yet every time, without fail, we’re still competing in the playoffs the next year. Good teams with good coaches and solid management are *always* at most 2 seasons away from contention. If you’ve already got your QB you’re even closer.
If you can make it to the playoffs, you can win it all. It’s that simple, always has been.
As long as CMC has a productive game, we have a chance.
How do you reopen something that wasn’t closed?
Absolutely. While trying to get the defense younger with key pieces who are signed. It’s health that’s holding us back. We would easily be the favorite to win this year if everyone is healthy. And I would bet a good amount that next year we will be one of the favorites for another Super Bowl run if key pieces return healthy.
A little health and some good draft picks and this could be a GREAT team. The key pieces are there.
Yeah, I don’t know why people are saying it closed. We should have a fair amount of cap room next year and could add a couple really good players, so if 13-4 is good with what we have, I don’t see why we wouldn’t be amongst the favorites next year with a good crop of rookies going into their 2nd season + getting back two HoFers + offseason adds.
As long as we have Brock and Shanahan, the window stays open.
You know what a game manager is? He’s the guy who continuously throws to check downs, whose drives end in field goals, whose main positive is that he doesn’t turn the ball over.
Brock Purdy is far beyond that.
Best qb in the division for the next 5 years. The window never closed.
“The 49ers have a really bad defense.”
That’s a strange thing to read, since we’re so used to the Niners having an elite defense that often drags the offense over the finish line. I really hope that Salah finds some solutions because we can’t rely on the offense to score 40 points every game in the playoffs. The defense is going to have to do its part.
Worth repeating, Brock’s cap hits:
This year- $9mil 25th amongst QBs
2026- $24.8mil which would be 16th on the current list
2027- $30.8mil which likely won’t be top
15 by the time it rolls around
2028- $57mil which sounds high now but if the cap keeps going up at the rate it’s going it would be manageable. Also the deal can easily be restructured at this point and in the HIGHLY unlikely situation that the Niners wanted to trade or cut Purdy (emphasis on HIGHLY unlikely) either could be done with relatively little dead cap money.
Everyone who has been waiting for the Niners demise when they had to “pay Purdy” are going to be waiting quite a while
One of the things I have said about Purdy getting paid is that he can no longer just be “not the problem”, he has to carry the offense and he’d been doing just that since he got back. The question now is whether or not this is the Brock Purdy we are going to get at least somewhat consistently or if this is just an abnormally-great stretch of games.
After that comes the defense. Are we ever going to get that other pass rusher opposite Bosa while Bosa is still great? If we don’t then I don’t think the window will be open in the same way it had been in previous years.
I get that some people are gonna be upset at that analysis because of our current record but keep in mind that our best players (aside from Purdy) are getting old, especially Trent and CMC (old for a RB) and we only get paired with the NFCS every three years. So while I think Brock being great CAN re-open our window, I don’t think it’s enough to guarantee it.
I still don’t understand where the “window closing” narrative even came from.. the 49ers window has been open for awhile now. Still open as it’s ever been. Warner will be back healthy next year. Hopefully bosa too. Williams looks like a promising draft pick and hopefully he’s back healthy. Kittle Purdy Shanahan. We will be just fine.
The only window is the Trent, Kyle, and Kittle window. They’ve gotta get those guys a ring. Long term, the franchise is set up for long term success
A couple of moves to reinforce the secondary and this defense can be scary again.
As long as Kyle Shanahan is our head coach we will be at worst a year away from another window opening.
Obviously
I mean I always looked at this year as a retool year not as our window being closed I’d still be surprised if we go on a run but it was a “come back in a year or two”
Windows aren’t real
Head coach + QB in sync = SB window. I’ve been saying this for years now…. We’re seeing it in real time right now.
The 49ers SB window will always be open as long as Kyle Shanahan is the HC of this team. He’s that good.
If you have a hall of fame QB and an elite coach, your SB window never completely slams shut. There will be times when the window is closed but it doesn’t take a ton of effort to reopen it with a new core of supporting pieces as long as the FO drafts/develops/signs those pieces properly, as long as your QB/coach foundation is rock solid. The Brady/Belichick dynasty is a good example where they won 3 titles early, then had around 10 years where they didn’t win a title, then had a 5 year span where they won 3 more with pieces vastly different than what they had 2001-2004, but the two main guys (QB and coach) were always there. You had Brees/Payton where they won the SB in 2009, had some success around the turn of the decade, faded in the mid 2010s, then had another resurgence in the late 2010s with a different cast of supporting players than what they had in the late 2000s/early 2010s. etc.
Time will tell if Purdy is truly a HOF level QB, but he is definitely a solid QB. Right now I think he’s more like Tony Romo (last pick vs undrafted, sneaky mobile but otherwise average physical traits, managed to put up good numbers) who is in the Hall of Very Good, but fingers crossed that Purdy eventually becomes Joe Montana 2.0.
Even the 49ers in the 1980s didn’t have a Super Bowl window every year. 1985-1986 especially were no chance.
It was never closed.