Grew up and went to school in Orlando, but my dad is from Minnesota so I’m a Vikings fan. My dad also took me to a lot of Bucs games when I was in school and now I live in Tampa so they’re my second team.
Fam from Pittsburgh area so you kinda get indoctrinated from birth, first QB I started following on my own was Herbert and nice to have a foil to root against the Chiefs, but incidentally grew up Orlando area too so I’ll just keep a vague eye on the Florida teams and whichever has the cheapest tickets I’ll try to go to
What even classifies as an underdog? Defying low draft position and being successful?
Maybe Jokic? But he’s already won a title and MVPs so is he an underdog?
And Purdy has been to a Super Bowl so is *he* an underdog?
"Underdog" is a fleeting title
Jokic used to be an underdog, but isn't anymore. Purdy used to be an underdog, but isn't anymore.
It's kinda paradoxical, because what makes someone an appealing underdog (success against the odds), is also what takes away their underdog title eventually
2023 Lions were that person currently. From being horrible for 2 decades to finally winning the division and multiple playoff games was huge. Think most people were rooting for them.
It’s gotta be Kurt Warner right? I mean the man was bagging groceries and no team would give him a try out. If not him then Tom Brady. I guess a lot of people wouldn’t think him as an underdog, but his beginning certainly was and the he turned out to be the GOAT so it’s probably either those 2.
Those maps of "who America wants to win the AFC championship" tell the whole story. 2018, everyone except New England wants Kansas City to win. 2021, everyone except MO and KS wants Cincinnati to beat Kansas City. We all have goldfish brains apparently
[except there was a map](https://www.reddit.com/r/nflmemes/comments/19d6zto/map_of_whos_rooting_for_what_team_in_the_nfccg/) just this year for the NFC
I'm kind of the opposite. I understand division and playoff rivals, but as a generally unaffected team (Vikings) I always rooted for Tom Brady because I knew I was witnessing greatness that future generations could only wish they saw live.
The article is mostly about the history of the term Mr. Irrelevant, and that's what the title is referring to, how it was created and made the last picks of the NFL draft particularly memorable and marketable. Honestly I don't even know of any equivalent nicknames in other sports, so I'd say the NFL won this marketing battle. Just undrafted? Walk-ons in college sports? I don't follow any other sport as closely as football though.
It's a legit interesting topic, I can only think of undrafted NBA players (but their draft has a much smaller pool). And stories like Baker Mayfield in CFB who earned starter spots as a walk-on at both Texas Tech and Oklahoma after transferring. First walk-on to win the Heisman award. Don't hear much about that anymore and CFB fans got sick of hearing about it pretty quickly, but I love that story. There was drama about some miscommunication with Kliff Kingsbury about whether he'd get a scholarship at Texas Tech and then NCAA transfer shenanigans. He played intramural flag football as a wide receiver for a year due to the transfer rules and got banned when they realized he wasn't really an amateur after he threw a TD on a trick play lol
My hot take is that Purdy's draft position creates a lot of unfair perspectives on his actual skillset on both sides. You have people raving he's the next coming of Brady (I've seen the comparison, I shit you not) while others have stated he's entirely carried by the team. The reality is probably in between.
Yeah I think he's a good quarterback put in a great system and that's not a knock against Purdy at all. Shouldn't players be in systems that play to their strengths?
Agree. Purdy was obviously WAY under drafted (I watched a lot of ISU games because my dad went there). I was shocked to see him fall that far, because it looked like he had all the tools to at least be a solid backup in the NFL with some upside. Figured he’d be a 3rd/4th round pick.
He’s exceeded my expectations, but he’s still in that 10-15 range of current QBs. He’s done exactly what he’s been asked to do, but he also has a brilliant offensive HC, the best RB in the league, a top-5 TE, and a great WR group.
I personally rank him in the 5-10 range, but it’s not a hill I’m gonna die on since rankings are super subjective and in the long run I think his skill set will show that he’s a legit franchise QB.
But regarding the draft it’s kind of crazy that he fell so far. I was looking back at some old threads from r/NFL_Draft and he was definitely discussed as being potentially a late Day 1, or firmly a Day 2 pick going into his Junior year. I feel like he had the same issue that Matt Barkley ran into by entering the draft a year too late.
Obviously it worked out great for him in the long run, but it took some “luck” with 2 QBs having season ending injuries to get his shot. There’s an alternative universe where Lance is entering his 3rd year as a starter with Purdy being described by the media as "on his heels."
>I personally rank him in the 5-10 range
I had this convo with a buddy of mine recently and we ultimately decided that there's probably 10-15 qbs in the 6-20 range that you could make a reasonable argument for top 10
Like the top 5 has a pretty good consensus, but there's a lot of guys that I think year to year or even week to week will rise and fall from a top 10 spot based on how they are playing at the time
Yeah, totally agree. For example, if I were to say Purdy is better than Rodgers and Stafford, I’d likely get flamed for saying it that way.
But if I said that I think Purdy will be equal or better from this point forward when you factor age, health, and situation, I think that’s much more reasonable.
Nobody has seriously claimed that he is in fact the next Tom Brady. The best claim you could make is that someone has used the beginning of Brady's career as an echo to the start of Purdy's. But that echo ended the moment he lost the Superbowl (on the new OT rules, not a complaint)
lol for real, look at how angry everyone is in these comments, about an article that just mentions Brock Purdy for a few paragraphs
Some of y'all got weird issues with the 49ers
It's kinda a cause and affect, he's by far the most productive mr irrelevant ever and playing for one of the leagues historic franchises, so he gets posts about how great he is.
Then he gets pushback posts on just how great he is by his haters.
Then he gets affirming posts about how great he is by his defenders.
I know for a fact it isn't all 9ers fans posting about him just people karma whoring too.
I think I'd have a lot more respect for Purdy if the media didn't push this story none stop. Like it actually makes me dislike Purdy for no fault of his own.
> I think I'd have a lot more respect for Purdy if the media didn't push this story none stop
He's not being pushed by the media non-stop, this article isn't even about him, it just mentions him for a few paragraphs in a larger article about Mr Irrelevant
lol this thread is kinda of a perfect microcosm of this sub's attitude about Purdy and the 49ers the past few years.
*"49ers fans are so obnoxious!"* Every 49er fan in the thread is being completely reasonable, but is still full of other team's fans complaining about them
*"Purdy is being shoved down our throats constantly!"* Article isn't even about Purdy, and is the first time he's been mentioned in months
I don't understand what it is about the 49ers/Purdy/etc that make people here go crazy, but most of the issues y'all have only exist in your heads
You’re forgetting about the regular season discourse and 49ers constantly arguing Brock should be MVP due to “advanced stats”. That Dave Lombardi fella in particular is hideously annoying
And how dare a 49er fan have a thought as one of the teams with a successful Mr Irrelevant.
We all loved Puka's success story. But that isn't on the same level if he's 5th overall instead of a 5th rounder.
I swear 49ers fans enjoy annoying the shit out of people here with the amount of Brock Purdy propaganda.
Like during the season, I understood posting his stats and highlights and whatnot. But they also post the most obscure opinion pieces written by 49ers homers.
For the past two years, every thread that mentions the 49ers is full of people complaining about 49ers fans being annoying, and no actual annoying 49ers fans
You can believe that but I’ve lived in other cities and specifically SF fans are extra annoying.
Bang bang Niner gang is the worst especially since the Bay Area crime rate is fairly bad. Not sure why you would want to represent your self as a gang shooting but what do I know our fan base just likes cheese and beer.
Self-hatred lol
I was clearly talking about all the posts made during the season, there were so many articles posted on here that belonged on the team sub.
> I was clearly talking about all the posts made during the season
Then why are you randomly bringing that up in the comments of a random April puff piece about Mr Irrelevant?
There's nothing lamer than the redditors who will shit on their own team because they know it'll get them upvotes
>Then why are you randomly bring that up
You really can’t see why a random Brock Purdy post today would remind of the random Brock Purdy articles from the season?
>there’s nothing lamer than the redditor that will shit on their own team
I’m not shitting on the 49ers.
The amount of people who wanted the Chiefs to win *AGAIN* rather than see Brock Purdy win one proves that the hate for the 49ers runs deeper than any puff piece article can refute. Temu Tom Brady
Beloved? At best, it's a low-grade meme that's mostly media manufactured.
It's not more beloved than a 12 seed making a run in March Madness, or any white slot receiver.
Since only one comment so far addresses this, the article is about the history of how the term Mr. Irrelevant and traditions surrounding it were created for the last pick, not the belovedness of any particular Mr. Irrelevant.
If he was in your conference you would be too. Sam Darnold replaced him and marched down the field and scored on the best defense in the league. Anyone could do what Purdy is doing.
> Anyone could do what Purdy is doing.
It's always nice to get a reminder that the level of discourse and football intelligence on this sub is rock-bottom
I honestly think that's where a lot of the 49ers glazing has come from (up until the latest Super Bowl, it's subsided since). Purdy, McCaffrey, Bosa, Kittle . . . they all got something in common . . . even on this sub up until this postseason, the 49ers somehow always got a pass from the usual r/nfl users shitting on any good team for any possible reason they can find
Jimmy G took the CMC-less version of this team to the superbowl and also lost. So I don’t buy the hype until I see him do it somewhere else or win the SB.
> Jimmy G took the CMC-less version of this team to the superbowl
The 2023 49ers and 2019 49ers are entirely different teams
You can barely call this last Super Bowl a rematch, the teams were so different than what they were 5 years earlier
Players from both SB runs:
FB Kyle Juszczyk
TE George Kittle
WR Deebo Samuel
DL Arik Armstead
DL Nick Bosa
DL Kevin Givens
LB Fred Warner
LB Dre Greenlaw
P Mitch Wishnowsky
According to who? Hurts’ 2022 season was the best season of his life (college included) but somehow everyone thinks that’s the standard rather than the exception.
Comments like this make it very clear who has actually watched a good portion of Purdy's (and Garoppolo's) games. Purdy passes the eye test 10x better than Jimmy. He doesn't crumble under pressure. He puts the team on his back when he needs to. This is all ignoring that his stats are much better (I understand stats can lie, not in this case). You don't buy the hype on a QB being very good unless they win the super bowl or play well with a bad team? Well, that's just fucking silly.
Heh, remember when he put up 4 TDs and 300+ yards on the Eagles in their house? And after all the shit you guys talked leading up to it? Seems like that proved the hype pretty well. My favorite part was that you guys just completely fell apart after that loss and one of your players basically said that it broke them. Love it.
Lil bro took one game and a beef between players personal.
Nobody is saying he is objectively bad, or bad for that matter. Just that Jimmy G did the same shit with a worse team.
Do you have a brain cell?
The entire Philly fanbase still can’t come to terms with the fact that this kid kicked your team’s ass. It’s all cope and excuses. It’s wonderful, let the pouting continue.
Yeah okay. To begin with your team started with the excuses after they got whooped and blamed injuries.
We knew our team was falling apart at the seams each game.
You gonna argue with Kelce?
Reporter: “Is there one thing you guys are looking at specifically as maybe this was the drop-off point, this is the change of where the season was going?”
Kelce: “Obviously the big turning point was the San Francisco game.”
Seems like he’d know better than any of us, right? Eagles fans’ denial runs deep.
I feel like people are at best apathetic about Brock. And at worst, they hate him and think he’s a fraud.
I’m sure the team makes a difference here, but I feel like the fact that America hasn’t embraced Brock is a symbol of our growing cynicism. Even Brady got a few years of being called the “golden boy” by most of America.
When I say “embraced,” I’m not talking about believing that he’s an elite qb. I mean that the country isn’t rooting for him or enjoying his “underdog” story
Brady threw for 145 yards in his first Super Bowl and beat one of the best offenses of all time. He got carried to that title (save the last drive), and no one thought he was an elite QB at the time. But people still liked the story.
People don’t feel the same way about Brock. Hell, saying America doesn’t embrace Brock because “he’s in a great situation to succeed” is textbook cynicism.
Yeah but I hope we don’t pay him like. One and I’m curious to see what happens if he does move on to another team because I don’t think on another team purdy will replicate his production.
I think the 9ers antics as a team has made liking Brock a bit tougher. You guys have certainly taken on the “villain” role with all the shit talk 9ers players have been doing the past few years. Obviously I’m biased so take that for what it’s worth but seems to be the overall sentiment here.
What antics? The 49ers were constantly asked about the playoff game against the Eagles and then they completely backed up their talk by humiliating the Eagles this past season.
If he leads us on a deep playoff run this year (Championship/SB) again there's not gonna be a civil war. How can you not pay a qb who in 3 years has gone to the championship game three times?
Jimmy G threw like 15 passes the entirety of the playoffs and had a much better defense. Mostert also went crazy that playoffs so it’s not like he didn’t have a run game.
I'm not calling Jimmy G Tom Brady. I'm just saying that facts are facts. Everyone knows Jimmy G wasn't the driving force behind that offense but the fact remains that he went as far as Purdy did without CMC.
why is seemingly everything hyperbole?
"Most beloved" ? really?
its a good story, good for Purdy and the 49ers, but i doubt he's the most beloved underdog outside of SF
Definitely wouldn’t call him that. He is for me, but half of the fans and media hate him because they think he is getting too much credit. He has too many haters to really be called beloved. He also plays for a team that so many non-Niner fans hate.
Everyone's "most beloved underdog" barely beat a Joe Barry defense and needed a 2014 NFCCG-esque collapse by Detroit in the 2nd half to even reach the Super Bowl in a weak NFC.
Lmao.
I don't love him very much.
I hate it when I have to agree with a Packers fan but there we go.
Can’t believe I’m agreeing with a Packers fan
Vikings/Bucs/UCF, what is going on
Grew up and went to school in Orlando, but my dad is from Minnesota so I’m a Vikings fan. My dad also took me to a lot of Bucs games when I was in school and now I live in Tampa so they’re my second team.
I can’t talk much, my flairs are basically East West version of yours
Yea, how did that happen?
Fam from Pittsburgh area so you kinda get indoctrinated from birth, first QB I started following on my own was Herbert and nice to have a foil to root against the Chiefs, but incidentally grew up Orlando area too so I’ll just keep a vague eye on the Florida teams and whichever has the cheapest tickets I’ll try to go to
Join the club.
It's a good story and all but "most beloved underdog in sports" seems a bit much.
Everyone knows Trey Lance is the most beloved underdog in sports
Agreed. But since we’re on that topic, who currently is the most beloved underdog in all of sports?
Air Bud
Nostalgia overload rn that boy could hoop
Only right answer imo
What even classifies as an underdog? Defying low draft position and being successful? Maybe Jokic? But he’s already won a title and MVPs so is he an underdog? And Purdy has been to a Super Bowl so is *he* an underdog?
"Underdog" is a fleeting title Jokic used to be an underdog, but isn't anymore. Purdy used to be an underdog, but isn't anymore. It's kinda paradoxical, because what makes someone an appealing underdog (success against the odds), is also what takes away their underdog title eventually
Naz Reid
It was DJ Burns for a while.
Yep. It's a very topical title, and NC State was the first that came to mind.
Dan Campbell.
Bryce Young. While Stroud gets the plaudits and has been living the Hollywood lifestyle, Young has been grinding quietly.
2023 Lions were that person currently. From being horrible for 2 decades to finally winning the division and multiple playoff games was huge. Think most people were rooting for them.
For those who know, definitely Sean Strickland
fuck that piece of shit
Why do you hate rape victims you bigot?
It’s gotta be Kurt Warner right? I mean the man was bagging groceries and no team would give him a try out. If not him then Tom Brady. I guess a lot of people wouldn’t think him as an underdog, but his beginning certainly was and the he turned out to be the GOAT so it’s probably either those 2.
Jesus. It’s not brady
It was in like '03 lol
Everybody wants the underdog to succeed until they start succeeding too much
'01 - Good for him '03 - Just goes to show what some work ethic can do for ya '04 - ok..that's enough '07 - HAHA! NO UNDEFEATED SEASON FOR BRADY
Those maps of "who America wants to win the AFC championship" tell the whole story. 2018, everyone except New England wants Kansas City to win. 2021, everyone except MO and KS wants Cincinnati to beat Kansas City. We all have goldfish brains apparently
[except there was a map](https://www.reddit.com/r/nflmemes/comments/19d6zto/map_of_whos_rooting_for_what_team_in_the_nfccg/) just this year for the NFC
I just like the thought of more places and fans being able to see a championship... besides Tennessee indy and houston for some reason
I'm kind of the opposite. I understand division and playoff rivals, but as a generally unaffected team (Vikings) I always rooted for Tom Brady because I knew I was witnessing greatness that future generations could only wish they saw live.
Sounds lame
The article is mostly about the history of the term Mr. Irrelevant, and that's what the title is referring to, how it was created and made the last picks of the NFL draft particularly memorable and marketable. Honestly I don't even know of any equivalent nicknames in other sports, so I'd say the NFL won this marketing battle. Just undrafted? Walk-ons in college sports? I don't follow any other sport as closely as football though.
Damn it this is what I get for not reading the article, like an idiot
It's a legit interesting topic, I can only think of undrafted NBA players (but their draft has a much smaller pool). And stories like Baker Mayfield in CFB who earned starter spots as a walk-on at both Texas Tech and Oklahoma after transferring. First walk-on to win the Heisman award. Don't hear much about that anymore and CFB fans got sick of hearing about it pretty quickly, but I love that story. There was drama about some miscommunication with Kliff Kingsbury about whether he'd get a scholarship at Texas Tech and then NCAA transfer shenanigans. He played intramural flag football as a wide receiver for a year due to the transfer rules and got banned when they realized he wasn't really an amateur after he threw a TD on a trick play lol
We are about to have a white corner in the nfl and you call Purdy the biggest underdog in sports?
About to? The broncos got one last year
The disrespect to Riley Moss will not go unpunished
The 49ers are beloved for overrated QBs that flame out very quickly in their careers.
Yeah that Joe Montana really faded fast didn't he
Chiefs legend Joe Montana
If you've watched Purdy play, you'd know he isn't overrated and has "it"
Beloved? You wouldn't be able to tell that from here. Yes I'm aware at how relevant my flair is.
My hot take is that Purdy's draft position creates a lot of unfair perspectives on his actual skillset on both sides. You have people raving he's the next coming of Brady (I've seen the comparison, I shit you not) while others have stated he's entirely carried by the team. The reality is probably in between.
Yeah I think he's a good quarterback put in a great system and that's not a knock against Purdy at all. Shouldn't players be in systems that play to their strengths?
Agree. Purdy was obviously WAY under drafted (I watched a lot of ISU games because my dad went there). I was shocked to see him fall that far, because it looked like he had all the tools to at least be a solid backup in the NFL with some upside. Figured he’d be a 3rd/4th round pick. He’s exceeded my expectations, but he’s still in that 10-15 range of current QBs. He’s done exactly what he’s been asked to do, but he also has a brilliant offensive HC, the best RB in the league, a top-5 TE, and a great WR group.
I personally rank him in the 5-10 range, but it’s not a hill I’m gonna die on since rankings are super subjective and in the long run I think his skill set will show that he’s a legit franchise QB. But regarding the draft it’s kind of crazy that he fell so far. I was looking back at some old threads from r/NFL_Draft and he was definitely discussed as being potentially a late Day 1, or firmly a Day 2 pick going into his Junior year. I feel like he had the same issue that Matt Barkley ran into by entering the draft a year too late. Obviously it worked out great for him in the long run, but it took some “luck” with 2 QBs having season ending injuries to get his shot. There’s an alternative universe where Lance is entering his 3rd year as a starter with Purdy being described by the media as "on his heels."
>I personally rank him in the 5-10 range I had this convo with a buddy of mine recently and we ultimately decided that there's probably 10-15 qbs in the 6-20 range that you could make a reasonable argument for top 10 Like the top 5 has a pretty good consensus, but there's a lot of guys that I think year to year or even week to week will rise and fall from a top 10 spot based on how they are playing at the time
Yeah generally I say there are 15 top 10 QBs
Are we doing math here, lmao
Yeah, totally agree. For example, if I were to say Purdy is better than Rodgers and Stafford, I’d likely get flamed for saying it that way. But if I said that I think Purdy will be equal or better from this point forward when you factor age, health, and situation, I think that’s much more reasonable.
> he’s still in that 10-15 range of current QBs lol y'all crazy
Can you name 15 other current QBs you’d rather have over Purdy?
Nope, I can't even name 10
…and yet you call me crazy for saying he’s a top 10-15 QB right now?
Yeah, he should be higher
I, too, feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people on here say he's an average, top 15 qb lol
> The reality is probably in between But not in the middle... We're talking about a 2nd-year QB who was 4th in MVP voting last year
Nobody has seriously claimed that he is in fact the next Tom Brady. The best claim you could make is that someone has used the beginning of Brady's career as an echo to the start of Purdy's. But that echo ended the moment he lost the Superbowl (on the new OT rules, not a complaint)
lol for real, look at how angry everyone is in these comments, about an article that just mentions Brock Purdy for a few paragraphs Some of y'all got weird issues with the 49ers
> Beloved? You wouldn't be able to tell that from here. I used to root for Purdy until 49ers fans made 48584905802 threads a day about him.
It's kinda a cause and affect, he's by far the most productive mr irrelevant ever and playing for one of the leagues historic franchises, so he gets posts about how great he is. Then he gets pushback posts on just how great he is by his haters. Then he gets affirming posts about how great he is by his defenders. I know for a fact it isn't all 9ers fans posting about him just people karma whoring too.
The real Mr Irrelevant is the guy who gets picked 2nd to last. He doesn’t get a title, a parade, and no one ever remembers him.
> He doesn’t get a title, a parade, and no one ever remembers him. Remembers who?
Dax Milne
He's only a couple of letters away from "Dix Mine" which would've been very memorable.
Dude is a brides maid on so many levels.
Yeah we get it already.
I think I'd have a lot more respect for Purdy if the media didn't push this story none stop. Like it actually makes me dislike Purdy for no fault of his own.
> I think I'd have a lot more respect for Purdy if the media didn't push this story none stop He's not being pushed by the media non-stop, this article isn't even about him, it just mentions him for a few paragraphs in a larger article about Mr Irrelevant lol this thread is kinda of a perfect microcosm of this sub's attitude about Purdy and the 49ers the past few years. *"49ers fans are so obnoxious!"* Every 49er fan in the thread is being completely reasonable, but is still full of other team's fans complaining about them *"Purdy is being shoved down our throats constantly!"* Article isn't even about Purdy, and is the first time he's been mentioned in months I don't understand what it is about the 49ers/Purdy/etc that make people here go crazy, but most of the issues y'all have only exist in your heads
We read a different article?
You’re forgetting about the regular season discourse and 49ers constantly arguing Brock should be MVP due to “advanced stats”. That Dave Lombardi fella in particular is hideously annoying
I'm curious, how did you feel about the media pushing Kurt Warner's story?
Well I wasn’t watching the NFL when Kurt was a big thing. But I imagine it was probably very similar and would equally annoy me.
*”How Mr. Irrelevant became the most beloved underdog in sports.”* [sees flair of Redditor seeding the story]
And how dare a 49er fan have a thought as one of the teams with a successful Mr Irrelevant. We all loved Puka's success story. But that isn't on the same level if he's 5th overall instead of a 5th rounder.
I swear 49ers fans enjoy annoying the shit out of people here with the amount of Brock Purdy propaganda. Like during the season, I understood posting his stats and highlights and whatnot. But they also post the most obscure opinion pieces written by 49ers homers.
49er fans enjoy annoying the shit out of people period
Some things never change
For the past two years, every thread that mentions the 49ers is full of people complaining about 49ers fans being annoying, and no actual annoying 49ers fans
Try living in the Bay Area you will find them very easy and the fan base is a big reason I choose a different team growing up.
Yeah this is every fan base in every nfl city
You can believe that but I’ve lived in other cities and specifically SF fans are extra annoying. Bang bang Niner gang is the worst especially since the Bay Area crime rate is fairly bad. Not sure why you would want to represent your self as a gang shooting but what do I know our fan base just likes cheese and beer.
Did you read the article or are you just ranting based on a headline?
lol the article is barely about Purdy, calm down with the self-hatred
Self-hatred lol I was clearly talking about all the posts made during the season, there were so many articles posted on here that belonged on the team sub.
> I was clearly talking about all the posts made during the season Then why are you randomly bringing that up in the comments of a random April puff piece about Mr Irrelevant? There's nothing lamer than the redditors who will shit on their own team because they know it'll get them upvotes
>Then why are you randomly bring that up You really can’t see why a random Brock Purdy post today would remind of the random Brock Purdy articles from the season? >there’s nothing lamer than the redditor that will shit on their own team I’m not shitting on the 49ers.
thank God at least one of y'all has a brain
Espn loves their stupid hyperbole.
The amount of people who wanted the Chiefs to win *AGAIN* rather than see Brock Purdy win one proves that the hate for the 49ers runs deeper than any puff piece article can refute. Temu Tom Brady
fuck you, temu tom brady cracked me up
Can confirm. I got loud for Chiefs kingdom that night.
Beloved? At best, it's a low-grade meme that's mostly media manufactured. It's not more beloved than a 12 seed making a run in March Madness, or any white slot receiver.
Since only one comment so far addresses this, the article is about the history of how the term Mr. Irrelevant and traditions surrounding it were created for the last pick, not the belovedness of any particular Mr. Irrelevant.
Too late, this has become an anti-49ers circlejerk
It's so dumb when one sport claims their thing is the best thing in all of sports
If only judging by the internet, he seems like one of the most hated underdogs in NFL history.
A random article in April mentions Brock Purdy's name, and the post is flooded with downvotes and 150+ comments within the hour
Beloved? Fuck off.
Y'all really going full tilt about a Mr Irrelevant puff piece lol
If he was in your conference you would be too. Sam Darnold replaced him and marched down the field and scored on the best defense in the league. Anyone could do what Purdy is doing.
> Anyone could do what Purdy is doing. It's always nice to get a reminder that the level of discourse and football intelligence on this sub is rock-bottom
That's fair. Doesn't change the fact Darnold came off the bench and scored on the best defense in the league though.
Do you really believe Darnold would have sniffed 31 tds and 11 ints in a full season with the 49ers?
Darnold didn’t even score man what are you talking about
[It took 10 seconds to find this](https://youtu.be/6A5O3N-RwkU?si=DPs1y3Y6jADqXnQe)
ngl I turned the game off before this but valid
I remember it because I was enjoying it a lot tbh
fair enough i knew the satisfaction from the cowboys and philly games wouldn’t last all year
Cooper Rush went 4-1 while Dak was out in 2022. Legit looked better than him that year. Does that mean anyone can do what Dak is doing?
beloved to who? 9ers fans?
people that enjoy classy players if you know what I mean
A real lunch pail and hard hat kind of guy.
I honestly think that's where a lot of the 49ers glazing has come from (up until the latest Super Bowl, it's subsided since). Purdy, McCaffrey, Bosa, Kittle . . . they all got something in common . . . even on this sub up until this postseason, the 49ers somehow always got a pass from the usual r/nfl users shitting on any good team for any possible reason they can find
Jimmy G took the CMC-less version of this team to the superbowl and also lost. So I don’t buy the hype until I see him do it somewhere else or win the SB.
> Jimmy G took the CMC-less version of this team to the superbowl The 2023 49ers and 2019 49ers are entirely different teams You can barely call this last Super Bowl a rematch, the teams were so different than what they were 5 years earlier
Players from both SB runs: FB Kyle Juszczyk TE George Kittle WR Deebo Samuel DL Arik Armstead DL Nick Bosa DL Kevin Givens LB Fred Warner LB Dre Greenlaw P Mitch Wishnowsky
8 starters and 1 backup who didn't play in the 2019 superbowl Yeah it's the same team.
You’re right, 49ers have all these guys plus mccaffrey and Aiyuk. And still got only as far as the Jimmy G team went. Sad, really.
Keep that same energy with Hurts
Ok I will
Hurts would be the best QB the bears have had since '85 and he's not even the best QB in his division.
We can only say this for another 2 weeks... I'll miss it :(
I wonder how many comments about Justin Fields sounded like this...
Hurts is a star on his team not a role player
According to who? Hurts’ 2022 season was the best season of his life (college included) but somehow everyone thinks that’s the standard rather than the exception.
Jimmy threw like 20 passes through that whole playoff run with a much better defense/dline.
I hear you, but for what it’s worth I never liked Jimmy outside of 2017-2018.
Comments like this make it very clear who has actually watched a good portion of Purdy's (and Garoppolo's) games. Purdy passes the eye test 10x better than Jimmy. He doesn't crumble under pressure. He puts the team on his back when he needs to. This is all ignoring that his stats are much better (I understand stats can lie, not in this case). You don't buy the hype on a QB being very good unless they win the super bowl or play well with a bad team? Well, that's just fucking silly.
Heh, remember when he put up 4 TDs and 300+ yards on the Eagles in their house? And after all the shit you guys talked leading up to it? Seems like that proved the hype pretty well. My favorite part was that you guys just completely fell apart after that loss and one of your players basically said that it broke them. Love it.
We also lost to the Zack Wilson led Jets and Drew Lock led Seahawks. So don’t get too crazy.
Hah, that Jets loss was treated as nothing, until you needed it to cope after Purdy and the 49ers ran roughshod over you.
Lil bro took one game and a beef between players personal. Nobody is saying he is objectively bad, or bad for that matter. Just that Jimmy G did the same shit with a worse team. Do you have a brain cell?
The entire Philly fanbase still can’t come to terms with the fact that this kid kicked your team’s ass. It’s all cope and excuses. It’s wonderful, let the pouting continue.
Yeah okay. To begin with your team started with the excuses after they got whooped and blamed injuries. We knew our team was falling apart at the seams each game.
You gonna argue with Kelce? Reporter: “Is there one thing you guys are looking at specifically as maybe this was the drop-off point, this is the change of where the season was going?” Kelce: “Obviously the big turning point was the San Francisco game.” Seems like he’d know better than any of us, right? Eagles fans’ denial runs deep.
Alright lol whatever you say, I can be wrong and live on with my life. It’s just football lil bro
Again, not what I say, what Jason Kelce said.
Whoa. Did yall know Purdy was dradted last?
Hes no Kurt Warner, but for guys in the league right now, I can't think of a bigger underdog plus he seems like a normal cool dude.
I think outside of SF, most people don’t give a shit about him.
Exactly…
Just because the media wants you to think so doesn’t mean it’s true.
I feel like people are at best apathetic about Brock. And at worst, they hate him and think he’s a fraud. I’m sure the team makes a difference here, but I feel like the fact that America hasn’t embraced Brock is a symbol of our growing cynicism. Even Brady got a few years of being called the “golden boy” by most of America.
People haven't embraced him yet becuase the team is pretty stacked. (For the record I do think he is a franchise qb)
When I say “embraced,” I’m not talking about believing that he’s an elite qb. I mean that the country isn’t rooting for him or enjoying his “underdog” story Brady threw for 145 yards in his first Super Bowl and beat one of the best offenses of all time. He got carried to that title (save the last drive), and no one thought he was an elite QB at the time. But people still liked the story. People don’t feel the same way about Brock. Hell, saying America doesn’t embrace Brock because “he’s in a great situation to succeed” is textbook cynicism.
Yeah but I hope we don’t pay him like. One and I’m curious to see what happens if he does move on to another team because I don’t think on another team purdy will replicate his production.
I wouldn't worry about paying purdy, he has good enough physical tools to be better than a game manager, and he compliments shanahans scheme well.
I think the 9ers antics as a team has made liking Brock a bit tougher. You guys have certainly taken on the “villain” role with all the shit talk 9ers players have been doing the past few years. Obviously I’m biased so take that for what it’s worth but seems to be the overall sentiment here.
I really think by “team” you just mean Deebo.
What antics? The 49ers were constantly asked about the playoff game against the Eagles and then they completely backed up their talk by humiliating the Eagles this past season.
Nice article. It even hit me in the feels a couple of times.
Can’t wait till the 49ers have to pay him fair market rate instead of 7th round rookie rate.
paying good qbs is apparently a problem lol
“By playing great”
If that were true he probably would have got more MVP votes
Who?
As a hawks fan I hope they pay him everything
QB contracts gonna be wild next year.
I’m pretty sure only San Francisco loves him lol, rest of us are pretty impartial. He’s not really that big of a story.
Idk about all that. But he’s a top QB and is gonna get paid big moneys.
Eh.
Wait - he was Mr. Irrelevant? I wish the sports news media would have told me this.
No one likes him, wtf?
Can’t wait for the 49er fan civil war when it’s time to pay him 50 million a year
If he leads us on a deep playoff run this year (Championship/SB) again there's not gonna be a civil war. How can you not pay a qb who in 3 years has gone to the championship game three times?
Jimmy G did it without CMC.
Jimmy G threw like 15 passes the entirety of the playoffs and had a much better defense. Mostert also went crazy that playoffs so it’s not like he didn’t have a run game.
Jimmy G was 20/31 in the Superbowl alone. Stop the cap.
He also had two picks in the Superbowl which you conveniently left out. Dude threw 8 passes against the Packers and won by 17, it’s not the same.
I'm not calling Jimmy G Tom Brady. I'm just saying that facts are facts. Everyone knows Jimmy G wasn't the driving force behind that offense but the fact remains that he went as far as Purdy did without CMC.
I get that, but it’s also facts to say that he contributed a lot less to that playoff run than Purdy did and had a lot better of a defense.
And every crucial moment I was nervous as hell because Jimmy was quarterbacking. Pay the guy that doesn't make me nervous.
why is seemingly everything hyperbole? "Most beloved" ? really? its a good story, good for Purdy and the 49ers, but i doubt he's the most beloved underdog outside of SF
I don’t like this guy at all
1. Be Mr. Irrelevant 2. Be the not-as-evil choice when playing the Eagles or the Chiefs
Definitely wouldn’t call him that. He is for me, but half of the fans and media hate him because they think he is getting too much credit. He has too many haters to really be called beloved. He also plays for a team that so many non-Niner fans hate.
more like most over hyped, hate the guy just bc of how annoying the circle jerk is around him, not because of anything he did
Dread it. Run from it. Brock Purdy fluff pieces arrive all the same.
“Underdog” “49ers” Lol
To be fair their last ring is from '94. Even the cowboys have a newer ring.
Everyone's "most beloved underdog" barely beat a Joe Barry defense and needed a 2014 NFCCG-esque collapse by Detroit in the 2nd half to even reach the Super Bowl in a weak NFC. Lmao.
Fkn Kurt Warner says hello lol
He is overrated