{"id":179897,"date":"2025-07-04T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179897\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:47:10","slug":"brock-purdy-changed-offense-arik-armstead-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179897\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Purdy changed offense, Arik Armstead says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brock Purdy<\/a> still hears the \u201cgame manager\u201d and \u201csystem quarterback\u201d labels attached to him. There’s a population of fans and analysts believing Purdy is a product of what Kyle Shanahan<\/a> created. Arik Armstead<\/a> begs to differ, however.<\/p>\n

Armstead moved away from the Bay Area to join the Jacksonville Jaguars last season. But he still thinks highly of his old quarterback. To the point he revealed how Purdy himself changed the complexion of the 49ers offense \u2014 not walk into a system already in place.<\/p>\n

The interior defensive lineman broke down<\/a> Purdy’s impact on Fox Sports 1’s First Things First.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you this. I talked to a lot of the receivers at the time, [Brandon] Aiyuk, Deebo [Samuel]. Like what\u2019s the difference because I felt like in 2023 that was the best offense we\u2019ve had during my entire tenure of that time. When I talked to the receivers the major difference on how Brock changed our team was the receivers felt like they could get the ball on any play,\u201d Armstead said.<\/p>\n

Arik Armstead further explains Brock Purdy impact on 49ers\"D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Sounds like Armstead himself believed Purdy was more efficient than predecessor Jimmy Garoppolo. Or even the original 2022 starter Trey Lance before sustaining a broken ankle. Armstead dove further into the reasoning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt switched from \u2018OK I\u2019m out of the progression, I\u2019m just doing a run off route’ to \u2018I better run my best route regardless of the play because Purdy may just throw it to me and I feel like I\u2019m better than the DB covering me and he gives me the opportunity,’\u201d Armstead shared.<\/p>\n

He concluded with \u201cthe receivers love that and you can see how our offense took off that year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Purdy delivered a Pro Bowl campaign in that ’23 campaign. He fired 31 touchdowns and racked up 4,280 yards. Purdy ended the season taking the 49ers back to the Super Bowl \u2014 only to fall to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime.<\/p>\n

Purdy’s numbers dropped to 3,864 yards with 20 touchdowns last year, as he played in 15 games. Armstead is an ex-teammate backing Purdy amid the criticism, though.<\/p>\n

The QB gained another backer inside the locker room. Trent Williams delivered a high hopes guarantee for Purdy<\/a> on June 10. Shanahan expects Purdy to become a stronger leader for 2025<\/a>, especially following Purdy’s mega $265 million deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock Purdy still hears the \u201cgame manager\u201d and \u201csystem quarterback\u201d labels attached to him. There’s a population of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1749,2644,7,2812,6,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-179897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-arik-armstead","10":"tag-brock-purdy","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-kyle-shanahan","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114792919694510785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}