This guy being Kurt Warner, a God-loving man if we ever knew one.
Kurt is a great QB analyst because he understands the position, understands offensive concepts, understands defenses, and can package and relay that huge amount of information in a way that allows us non-NFL-QBs to understand it as well. (Chase Daniels is also pretty good, I find.)
And here Kurt is, breaking down Brock's 3 INTs. Watch this. It's so educational.
Now those two are slightly different as they won Superbowls. Which means, God, how much greater would it have been for the Niners to have beaten the Chiefs in OT two years ago. The rings for Trent, Fred, George, CMC, Deebo, Bosa, Charvarius Ward (would have been his 2nd), Dre Greenlaw, etc etc. BUT ALSO - maybe, just maybe a silencing of some of the "analysts". That golden silence, I would love so much.
But that did not happen, despite Brock coming as close to winning as SB as you can possibly get - putting up the first points in OT - without actually winning. (And don't be fooled by anyone's revisionist history, he and Jauan Jennings were earning that ring. JJ was going to be the MVP if the Niners won. And I do still think about the missed assignment on 3rd down where Chris Jones ran straight through the line and forced Brock to throw way too early to JJ in the end zone, leading to the incompletion and then the field goal instead of the TD.)
Instead, after a 3-INT performance against the Panthers on Monday, people are still wailing, decrying and insisting that Shanahan should re-insert Mac Jones as starting QB.
No.
Did any of you watch the game? The interceptions were bad, there's no doubt. I too was yelling at my TV. I wondered whether his toe injury was not allowing him to drive the ball in his throws. All three picks were bad floaters just waiting to drop into someone, anyone's arms. The last one everyone said was a great play by Horn, and it was - but if Brock threw a laser then that may have been a Pearsall touchdown. I don't remember seeing a safety in the vicinity behind Ricky as he waited for that ball to come down.
So, at the start of the third quarter, Brock went into a more conservative mode, giving up big play hunting and taking the shorter throws and checkdowns. And GUESS WHAT? THAT SURE LOOKED LIKE WHAT MAC JONES WAS DOING. That scoring drive was exactly what Mac has been doing all year. If Kyle wanted that, he would have (and maybe did tell Brock at the half) to just do that. No need to swap him out for Mac, he can do all those things Mac does.
This is NOT a slight on Mac Jones. That is efficient QB'ing. But that's also not what Kyle is willing to settle for, clearly, when he knows Brock can also hit the seam or sidelines or end zone corners.
Did anyone with wring-ed hands watch the Cards game? That's exactly what Brock was doing, and that is what Brock brings to the table above and beyond Mac Jones. How quickly, or conveniently, everyone forgets.
Brock is prone to these types of INTs. We've seen it before, last Xmas vs Baltimore for example. It's the style he plays. He has the same floor as Mac Jones, but he also has a higher ceiling. That is the boiled down truth of why Shanahan knows Brock is his starting QB.
So please, shut up about QB controversies. Especially if you know football, which the "analysts" absolutely know better than I do. I mean seriously, it's just making you sound dumb.
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As a side note, though equally important, the defense sure stepped up to cover up Brock's mistakes and ultimately win that game. Loved what I saw out of those young young dogs out there, swarming and playing a full team game. Protect the pack mentality. Go Niners!
