Peter King on favoring Purdy over Lance, Shanahan’s coaching style and 49ers’ health problems

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Football, Nfl, San Francisco 49ers, Sports, Matt Maiocco

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan are joined by NBC Sports’ Peter King to discuss why he believes Brock Purdy will be the starter for the 49ers next season, the key to Purdy’s standout rookie season and the interesting way Kyle Shanahan handles roster decisions. Plus, Matt and Jennifer recap the 49ers' season and give out their awards. (3:12) Recapping the 49ers’ season (9:16) Looking back to Purdy’s debut (16:05) Is McCaffrey the focal point of the 49ers’ offense? (22:30) Where can 49ers improve? (30:36) King discusses the 49ers’ quarterback situation (35:19) King on why he thinks Purdy will start next season (41:20) King explains why he doubts a QB competition will happen (48:40) King on Purdy’s underdog mentality (54:30) What to make of Purdy’s delayed surgery

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0:00.0	The 49ers have a team that is set up to win.
0:03.0	But again, the biggest question remains at the quarterback position.
0:07.0	One year ago at this time, Trey Lance was installed as a team starter entering his second NFL season.
0:14.2	But this off season, there appears to be even more uncertainty
0:17.8	at the quarterback position.
0:19.9	Brock Purdy appeared to do enough to win the starting job, but now there's a lot of uncertainty
0:24.4	with his elbow injury after surgery was postponed, thus setting back indefinitely his timetable
0:30.8	for returning.
0:32.4	Peter King of NBC Sports joins us to give his views
0:35.4	on the 49ers entering the off-season.
0:37.7	And Jennifer Lee Chan and I will provide our season recap
0:41.7	along with some highs and lows from the team's NFC West wins. our season
0:44.7	recap along with some highs and lows from the team's NFC West winning season.
0:45.8	All that and more coming up on 49ers Talk right now.
0:50.1	Welcome to another edition of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:56.0	Introducing your host, Matt Mayoko.
0:59.0	This is 49ers Talk presented by Bigo Tires with Matt and Jennifer and we're going to do
1:05.0	something that we really haven't had time to do Jennifer. We are going to
1:09.6	recap the 2022 season. It just seems like the season was over. There's so much looking ahead and all this, but you know, I think the 49ers coming off a 10 and 7 season of 2021.
1:25.0	You know, I don't know, it's finishing 13 and 4,
1:29.0	the number two seed, it wasn't the way the four designers wanted the season to end but all things considered like how would you consider this season?
1:41.0	I think after you look at where they started three and four I think it ended up being quite a kind of a Cinderella story of a season now they've got a lot of star players on both sides of the ball, but the way they started out compared to how they finished,
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