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The Play Sheet [VIDEO] Debunked: Brock Purdy for MVP

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

While Brock Purdy's statistically incredible 2023 season helps to make a MVP case for the 49ers quarterback, The Ringer’s Ben Solak argues that we may need to pump the brakes. While Purdy's play has been undeniably solid, he benefits from a supporting cast and scheme that almost no other QB has available to them. Will Purdy secure the MVP, or will it go to someone else? Watch 'The Play Sheet' on YouTube or Spotify every Wednesday at 8 a.m. PT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Howdy? I'm Ben Solak and this is the play sheet. It's a video podcast.

0:08.1

Comes out every Wednesday. Today we're talking Brock Purdy MVP discourse. So click in your Spotify

0:12.6

app, watch the film and enjoy. The opening script. Let's talk about Brock Purdy and the MVP.

0:18.4

The MVP race has been like wild this year. You had the,

0:21.8

the pole position leaders in the clubhouse to start the year, your Patrick Mahomes, your Josh

0:25.9

Allen, your Jalen Hertz. All of those guys are pretty much falling away. And now it's a two-horse

0:30.3

race between a slight favorite and Dak Prescott plus 155, talked about him last week, and Brock

0:35.8

Purdy plus 175. Now, the case for Brock Purdy to win the award is just unbelievable astronomical production.

0:43.3

Purdy is averaging 9.9 yards per attempt, which if you think about that,

0:47.6

means that if Purdy drops back and then throws it, it doesn't matter if the ball's caught

0:52.3

or not, the offense just gained 10 yards.

0:55.1

That 9.9 yards per attempt is tied with 2000 Kurt Warner for the best season of any quarterback

1:00.4

since the merger. Of course, yards per attempt is an imperfect stat, right? In this top 10,

1:04.3

we see Ryan Fitzpatrick and Nick Foles and Jake Browning. And obviously, those aren't names that we

1:10.3

associate with clear MVP's.

1:12.4

Now, by adjusted net yards per attempt, which is a better yards per attempt because it rewards

1:18.2

touchdowns and penalizes interceptions and sacks, Purdy is still third all time. Now, this list

1:24.3

passes the MVP sniff test. Purdy joins 2004 Manning, 2011 Rogers, 2013 Nick Foles, more on him in a second,

1:32.7

and 2016 Matt Ryan as one of only five quarterbacks to have an adjusted net yards per attempt over nine.

1:38.2

Rounding out the top ten, we have 1984 Dan Marino, which is nuts.

1:42.7

2020 Rogers, 2018 homes, 2007 Brady,13 Manning, all of these guys.

1:48.6

We're MVP's.

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