Your daily San Francisco 49ers news for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
49ers’ Brock Purdy: The moment Kyle Shanahan panicked him during 2022 cutdowns
“We’re in the quarterback room, and then Kyle opened up the door,” Purdy recalled. “He goes, ‘Hey, Brock, can you grab your stuff and come talk to me?’ I was like, ‘Bro.’ I was like, ‘Am I getting cut?’ I was like, ‘Dang, dude.’”
“And then he goes, ‘No, I’m kidding. Set your stuff down,’” Purdy said. “He’s like, ‘Congrats, bro,’ and then dapped me up.”
Purdy added, “I was like, dude, my heart was pounding.”
‘I need my binky’: 49ers’ Brock Purdy reveals Trent Williams’ impact—and his funny Toyota tale
“He does this ninja move thing, and then pushes guys in the ground,” Purdy said. “And then, outside of that, just pass [protection] and stuff, he’s locked down over there. And so, year after year, for me, blindside as a quarterback, right-handed quarterback, knowing that my left side is good, I can’t even describe to you. It’s like a sense of freedom…..He’s like my little safety blanket,” Purdy said with a laugh. “I’m like, ‘I need my binky and I need him to be in the game.’”
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“I literally went up to him and I was like, ‘Hey, dude, Toyota’s helping us out. We got 10 of them for all the O-linemen and stuff. Just curious, do you still want yours or not?’” Purdy said. “And he’s like, ‘Hell, yeah.’ He’s like, ‘I’ll paint that thing pink.’ And I’m like, ‘All right.’
“But then, sure enough, he forgets about it somehow. Everyone gets their cars and stuff, and they’re like, ‘Trent, what’d you think about yours?’ And he’s like, ‘Brock, what did I get? A truck or a car?’ And I was like, ‘Bro, Trent doesn’t even know.’”
49ers legend draws comparison between Brock Purdy and Joe Montana
“Joe Montana was, in my mind, the greatest processor that I’ve ever seen,” Jones told Haberman. “He knew where he was going to go with the ball. And it could be the fifth read on a play, but he knew instantaneously that it was going to that guy just because of the way the defense ended up moving or checking or bouncing. He’d read it immediately, no matter what, and he knew where he was going with the ball a majority of the time.”
“What I started to see early on in Brock’s career was, man, he processes fast, and gets rid of the ball, and is accurate, and a lot of times, hits the open man,” Jones shared. “And I think it’s been fantastic to watch him……You don’t have to have the strongest arm in the NFL, and his arm is plenty strong,” Jones added. “But Joe wasn’t [John] Elway or Jim Kelly or Dan Marino [when it came to arm strength], but he’s the one with all the Super Bowl rings. And it’s because his anticipation and his accuracy and his ability to read the defenses were unlike anybody that I’ve ever seen.