Football GM: Brock Purdy & the 49ers, Brandon Beane’s comments, Bill O’Brien’s return to Patriots & more
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🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Can Brock Purdy lead the 49ers to the Super Bowl? Mike Sando and former GM Randy Mueller discuss what they’ve seen from the rookie QB ahead of conference championship weekend. Then, they talk about Brandon Beane’s comments towards the Bengals, the likelihood of an Aaron Rodgers trade this offseason and Bill O’Brien’s return to the Patriots. Plus, they rate the head coach vacancies and share their AFC and NFC picks.
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1:11 Brock Purdy & the 49ers
17:07 Brandon Beane’s comments towards Bengals
26:13 Likelihood of an Aaron Rodgers trade
34:34 Would a contender rather add Rodgers or Brady this offseason?
41:14 Rating head coach vacancies
53:47 Bill O’Brien returns to Patriots as OC
58:05 GM Notebook
1:01:29 Championship weekend picks
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome everyone to the Football GM podcast, Mike Sandow here from The Athletic, along with Randy Mueller, the three-time GM, former NFL |
| 0:57.8 | exec of the year. I'm trying to butter you up, Randy, as we go here. You can find all his work |
| 1:03.0 | at Muellerf Football.com. He's on Twitter at Randy Mueller underscore. I'm really trying to get |
| 1:09.9 | in your good graces, Randy, because you're going to educate me today. You're going to set Sando straight. It ain't the first time, believe me. I don't know, Mike. You might want to set your standards a little higher. You're taking direction from me. I will say this. I am fired up because championship weekend is actually, I think, the best four teams in the league. So that's kind of the caveat behind all of our discussion. And it's just my opinion. I think these are the best four teams in the league. I think we got them too. I think you're right. I think we got them too. And, you know, certainly at Buffalo at one point might have been one of those. I think we got the right teams right now. |
| 1:45.8 | Everybody, of course, can look at all the great topics we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:49.5 | But we are going to start out talking about Brock Purdy in particular and the 49ers. |
| 1:56.4 | And Randy has from day one, I think, said, hey, it's kind of interesting here. |
| 2:00.8 | They are not dumbing it down. |
| 2:02.3 | They're not changing the offense for this guy. |
| 2:05.0 | And, you know, I think as we look at this championship weekend, Randy, there's a lot of knowns. |
| 2:13.9 | Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, Mahomes, Andy Reed, Kelsey, Kyle Shanahan, Debo, Samuel, Christian McCaffrey. |
| 2:20.0 | Some of the Eagles are a little newer in Jaywin Hertz. |
| 2:22.9 | But of all of the participants that play prominent roles, I think, without question, |
| 2:28.2 | Brock Purdy is the most enigmatic one. |
| 2:30.9 | Hasn't lost a start since coming in there, has played some really good football. And |
| 2:36.4 | people like you, Randy, taught me early on. I've joked before when I was first starting |
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