Wouldn’t you rather just have Christian McCaffery, DJ Moore…

[LinvilleGorge]

57 minutes ago, BrianS said:

This is a media narrative that needs to be killed off.  Purdy doesn't get significantly more YAC than any of the top 10 QB's.  Here's a quick table:

Purdy gets 32 fewer yards per game from YAC than Mahomes does . . . and no one is remotely saying Mahomes benefits overly from YAC.  Purdy gets 18 yards per game more than the LEAST YAC - closer to the bottom than the top!

The other thing that then pops off the page is that Purdy has thrown far fewer passes per game than the rest of this crew.  So with fewer attempts and YAC differences largely irrelevant Purdy has put up top 10 yardage numbers.  The only remaining answer is that Purdy throws it farther downfield than these other guys.  Yep, Air Yards per completion checks out.  The only guy who throws it farther is Stroud.

The truth is that Purdy is a top QB this year.  Maybe it doesn't last.  Maybe the situation in SF changes.  Anything can happen.  But credit where credit is due.  The guy has played exceptional football this year as a whole.

Bonus round, because we're the cursed fan base of the Carolina Panthers:

If Stroud had played 16 games this year, his line would be - 4393 yards on 342 completions out of 541 attempts.  Yes, CJ Stroud would be the second leading yardage QB in the league.

Watch the games. Every QB in the modern NFL gets a ton of YAC yards as screens have largely replaced a lot of the outside running game. Where Purdy gets significantly more yardage than other QBs is on the intermediate routes. Shanahan does a great job of scheming up crossing routes that create opportunities for YAC. His scheme is brilliant. I don't see any other offense getting the type of YAC that SF does on their passing beyond the LOS.

[LinvilleGorge]

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/receiving#avgYAC

Deebo is #1 in the league in YAC per reception. Kittle is #4. It looks like they don't include RBs in the numbers but you can guarantee CMC is right there too.

[CRA]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/stats/receiving#avgYAC

Deebo is #1 in the league in YAC per reception. Kittle is #4. It looks like they don't include RBs in the numbers but you can guarantee CMC is right there too.

Where is Carolina's best YAC aid to the QB? #70 something Mingo lol. 

[CPantherKing]

I'll take...

Brock Purdy, CMC, Isiah Pacheco, Chris Rodriguez, Adam Thielen, DJ Moore, Parker Washington, Trey Palmer, AT Perry, Andrei Iosivas & Zack Kuntz

... over...

Young, Sanders, Hubbard, Blackshear, Thielen, Mingo, Chark, TMJ, Shenault, Smith-Marsette & Thomas.

The lesson here is a better offensive roster can be built with 6th & 7th round picks over the last 2 years compared to what Fitt has done with a ton of expensive draft capital & trades over the past 3 seasons.

[Captroop]

This, I feel, is the ultimate, "I told you so" outcome. I could go back to this time last year and pull hundreds of posts from dozens of posters who were saying the exact same thing:

"We need to do everything possible to get a franchise QB. Darnold won't work. Baker won't work. No more retreads. I want to get off the 6 and 7-win roller coaster."

 

Well, what do y'all know. You monkey pawed that wish. We got off all right. We're looking up through 20 feet of dog poo at 6 wins, and are liable to get worse before we get better.

Mediocre is the launching pad for a good team. Pushing all your chips into the center and going bust helps no one. Embrace mediocrity, meatheads, because it can always be worse!

Edited January 3 by Captroop

[frankw]

15 minutes ago, Captroop said:

This, I feel, is the ultimate, "I told you so" outcome. I could go back to this time last year and pull hundreds of posts from dozens of posters who were saying the exact same thing:

"We need to do everything possible to get a franchise QB. Darnold won't work. Baker won't work. No more retreads. I want to get off the 6 and 7-win roller coaster."

 

Well, what do y'all know. You monkey pawed that wish. We got off all right. We're looking up through 20 feet of dog poo at 6 wins, and are liable to get worse before we get better.

Mediocre is the launching pad for a good team. Pushing all your chips into the center and going bust helps no one. Embrace mediocrity, meatheads, because it can always be worse!

Meh.

What it really boils down to is we did not need to keep Darnold or Baker. We did not need to trade to 1. We could have kept Moore kept this years first rounder and drafted Levis at 9 or even traded down and still taken him a little later and been better off than we are now.

[SmokinwithWilly]

The problem with all of this from Cam to T2G, Baker, Darnold, CMC, Moore, BY and so on is the wrong people in charge. This team could have TB12, Prime Moss, Irvin and Megatron, Barry Sanders and Gronk and still turn out a horrendous offense under Ron, Rhule and Frank. 

[Zaximus]

With our coaches I would bet CMC was on the IR 4 games into this season.  We just never used him correctly.  

[MechaZain]

21 hours ago, hepcat said:

McCaffrey probably privately requested a trade and he’s in the ideal place for his career. They should NOT have traded DJ Moore, especially when drafting a rookie QB. I said it the day they traded for the #1 overall pick, you need to have solid receivers around a rookie QB. I can’t believe Fitterer still has a job. 

He definitely requested a trade. I remember how the media at the time kept suggesting he go elsewhere and he sounded more open to the idea each time. Then Mama McCaffery showed their hand. 

CMC was the entire offense and we didn't even get a first round pick back, I can't see Rhule doing that willingly.

[Towelboy]

On 1/3/2024 at 4:43 AM, MechaZain said:

It's a cruel joke how the weapons we gave up for Young are like made for his skillset

Tailor made for a game manager. Young in San Fran would be pretty good. Purdy in Carolina would look about like Young.