San Francisco 49ers QB Brock Purdy

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1:07Rich Eisen:Lions and Chargers, oh my. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. I could make a great case that the best division in football is represented by one of those two teams on the field in Canton, Ohio. And it's Lance throwing a tough touchdown. Chargers! Earlier on the show, NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero. Pelissero, five-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle in Domikin Sioux. Coming up, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of our show is on the air. Phone lines are lit. We'll take your call shortly. And just in case you missed what the first two hours are all about, Tom Pelissero joined us from Bucs Camp and gave us an update on what's going on with Terry McLaurin and Micah Parsons.

1:59Rich Eisen:If you missed that, there's our podcast. All three hours are available that way through the Cumulus Podcast Network. We also chop up some of the show on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash RichEyesAndShow. We also re-air on the Roku channel as well. And then in hour number two, Ndamukong Su checked in. He just recently retired. We had an interesting exit interview with him. What's more likely as well. In terms of the Terry McLaurin update, he has demanded a trade as i said off the top of the show i mean so did lamar jackson once upon a time and he did it so famously that he tweeted it out just as john harbaugh was meeting with the media at the owners meeting which kind of clowns your coach um and yet he's a raven for life it appears he signed brandon iuk said i want to be a somebody other than a 49er well his quarterback Brock Purdy of the 49ers is joining us in less than 20 minutes.

2:56But that said, it doesn't stop people from thinking that Terry McLaurin should be on their team.

3:02Rich Eisen:I just gave you five destinations in a top five list. I got a text from somebody who wants him. Put up on the screen. Oh, pardon me. And he also wants Micah Parsons as well. That's what he wants. He wants Micah Parsons. Hey, tell Micah we got money from him in Philly. Tell my biggest fan there I'm calling Howie. That's from Carl Anthony Towns. Wow. I can't deal with this dude again this year, man. So how do you pronounce that first word? Hey. Tell Micah we got money from him in Philly. Tell my biggest fan there I'm calling Howie. Look, this is collusion. It's interference. It's all a bunch of negative stuff.

3:46Rich Eisen:He can't do that. And so I responded, LOL, I'm putting this on the air. And he just responded, during the commercial break, five words all in caps, tell him what I said. Carl Anthony Towns. So he doesn't want McLaurin, he wants Micah. Yeah, well tell him to back up. I'll tell him, hey, cat, back up. Better bring that stick with you. I'm going to need to. Longer stick. Nice. So there's an update on that front. Hall of Fame game, we haven't talked about it yet. Listen, Chargers looked incredibly impressive, but it's, again, game one. Daniel Jeremiah, when he's flying out there, before he flew out there, he stopped by here and he's complaining about not having a great seat on the plane with the team because it's filled with players that aren't going to be with the team, and he knows he's going to be with the team.

4:31Rich Eisen:And I'm like, wow, normally DJ's a little bit more empathetic than that. But, I mean, if you're stuck in a middle seat between two guys that are not going to be on the team, I understand your point. Especially two guys away about 290 through the bills. Yeah, I mean, you're losing the armrest battle there. You know what I mean? Big boy, big boy. I'm still reclining my seat. I don't care. See, that's wrong. But that's neither here nor there. And the one thing, though, that I, two aspects of this game I won't talk about. First one is certainly in light of the fact that we have Brock Purdy on the show in our number three.

5:12Rich Eisen:Trey Lance may finally have found the spot where he can rehabilitate his career as a bona fide starter in this league. And I don't mean this to say he's going to knock Justin Herbert out or supplant Justin Herbert. That is not what I am saying, because clearly when the head coach in charge talks about how I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, how am I going to get Justin Herbert to the Hall of Fame? As he said in this chair to my right when he was here last month, or as he said in one of his opening press conferences of the training camp season, that Justin Herbert's biggest challenge is his teammates all working hard enough to get up to his level.

6:01Rich Eisen:this is Justin Herbert's team but Trey Lance is in a spot where he's going to get a lot of reps in the preseason and he's in a spot where the offensive coordinator and the head coach together are the ones who turned Colin Kaepernick into a major star in the league because they saw his ability to run and throw and be a physical beast and unlocked it. Now, he got a shot there because Alex Smith wasn't potentially, in their mind's eye, the ultimate guy there. That's not the case here for the Chargers. I'm saying, in the same way Sam Darnold spent some time in San Francisco, right? Baker Mayfield spent a few weeks with the Rams.

6:53Rich Eisen:That if you're around a quarterback room and a coaching staff, even for a short period of time, or in the case of Darnold for a full year, right? that gets you ready for a next step. It prepares you, if you're with a quarterback whisperer, to succeed elsewhere and maybe get you on a radar screen somewhere else. And again, I know it's game one of the preseason, but he looked comfortable and terrific. And it's a great start. It's a great first step. Do we have Trey Lance? This is what he was talking about, his opportunity that he took advantage of last night in Canton. I was excited to be able to play.

7:39I was excited we got this fourth preseason game. If they would have told me I could play four full games, I'd be fired up about it. So, yeah, it was cool. Yeah, I think, you know, going into free agency and everything this offseason, you know, my goal was to take a big step in my career. And, you know, I want to be a starter one day. That's my goal. I believe it will happen. I'm just waiting for that opportunity. So for me, coming to the Chargers, it was a great, obviously, Justin, great guy to learn from, as well as Coach Harbaugh and Giro. Great situation for me to be in. And like I said, for me, I want to take a big step.

8:11And these four preseason games will be a big part of that. Giro being Greg Roman and the offensive coordinator.

8:19Rich Eisen:And, you know, every now and then, Herbert's got the high ankle. He's got the rib. He's got this. He's got that. He misses a game. And then suddenly, you know, Easton Stick was not the guy. And maybe Lance could be under those moments of emergency. This was Jim Harbaugh on the subject matter after the game. I mean, he hasn't had enough game action, you know, and just wanted to give him. That was the game plan, you know, get out there and play him. He's been playing good. And, you know, college, not as much as most guys have coming out of college in terms of starts and games. And then he gets into pro ball and, you know, wins a starting job and then gets hurt.

9:02And so he hasn't had a lot of game experience. And that's what we're trying to give him. And he acquitted himself well.

9:10Rich Eisen:I think he's in a great spot, don't you guys? Am I overstating it? Obviously off of one Hall of Fame game. But it's good to see. Remember when he came out of the Super Bowl?

9:25Rich Eisen:when he was with the Niners, that was after Jimmy Garoppolo basically said farewell, and it's going to be his gig, and he's just like, I need to earn it, right? Then we all know he got a shot, and then he got hurt, and then they went to Jimmy G, he got hurt, and then Brock Purdy's born, and yada, yada, yada. He's 50 million plus a year, and he's going to be our guest in 12 minutes as the clear now starter in San Francisco. I just think good for him. Learn, get up to speed. They're going to give him a ton of time. I don't know how much Herbert's going to play in the preseason. I would imagine. Very little, right?

10:02Rich Eisen:Zero probably. So we're going to see a lot of him. And we're going to see some of the ones, and let's see what he can do and learn there and then maybe go somewhere else at some point. Because if he's the starter in the Los Angeles Charger world, then something way wrong has happened with Justin Herbert. Right. So please understand what I'm saying here. Yeah, he just needs an opportunity. Sam Monson last night tweeted, last night was 5 % of Trey Lance's entire NFL pass attempts. Like, think about that. That's insane. This guy just hasn't played football, like Jim said. He missed a year. He sat out the COVID year, and he just hasn't got an opportunity to play.

10:41Rich Eisen:And so anytime you can get in this situation where you're going to get live game reps, and then you're going to learn behind Jim Harbaugh, great Roman, Justin Herbert, you're in a great spot. Whether he sees regular season action or not, this is a chance for him to learn and eventually become a starter, which is what he wants. And this may eventually be not much ado about nothing, to be honest. But that's what I came out of the Hall of Fame game thinking. Coach Ray Lunds is clearly the biggest winner from last night's game. The other aspect to come out of last night's game is the virtual video, if you will, virtual chain gang, where the referees still spot the ball, the humans still put the ball down on the ground, right?

11:26Rich Eisen:And then now we use GPS and Hawkeye technology, I guess, right? Yeah, like tennis. Like tennis. And we see the football on the field, and then we see the first down line, and it says at the bottom, first down or not. And I just think it's time-consuming. I guess time saving because it's time consuming to get the chains out there and the folks run. And now you're adding another aspect of, well, where are you planting one flat part of the, uh, pole? Like we're in, and you're extending the other. So it does remove some human error out of it. There's still some human aspect to it. Unless we're going to start spotting the football, you know, by using GPS and then you get in the ear of the human to say, put it right there.

12:21Rich Eisen:I think that's probably further down the line. But as in terms of right now, yeah, there's still that human element, but I thought it looked great. I thought it worked great. I would just add an arrow. You know what I mean? Where the football at one point, you know, last night it said first down and the yellow line was in front of the football, right? Unless it was. Unless it was behind the football and they were just using this technology because it's so far in front of the first down line. They just wanted to start using this thing. Right. Because when you just are walking past the television set and you're just seeing like, that's not a first down.

13:01Rich Eisen:I could see that much space between the ball and the yellow line. No, it's past the yellow line. Right. So add the line, like an arrow as to which direction the football is going. I like that. Like we need a little bit more visual on the screen. and then of course just uh and i'm happy to be part of this and the league knows this too clearly i've been around a while you just got to get it out there as to what the actual technology is so there's not all these gambling nuts out there that think that this is you know somebody creating the video replay virtual looking thing because that person's bet the over you know like this is because at least you could see the chain being put down and know oh my eyes can see that's a first down i'm just trusting some computer to tell me where the ball is in relation to the line you know but you can't conduct yourself you know in this world of tinfoil hat nut jobs yeah that are out there who think everything's a conspiracy and nothing's true anymore right everything you can't operate you know in fear of that group of people yeah that appears to be getting larger in our crazy mixed up world every day but you know long story short is i think this is an improvement i think so and i just need to see a little bit more on the screen like an arrow and getting it out there and describing what is the exact gps system that is being used how do we know where the first down line what like the first original line of scrimmage for the new sets of downs was how are you measuring it and of course you know nance wants this now to be how you can tell if you can tell whether the ball has gotten past the line again you can see if it's gotten past the end zone uh the the line that you need to crease in order for to be a touchdown.

14:57Rich Eisen:That, though, there's usually bodies all over the place. And that may be the case for a first down, too. Like, how are you going to use this for a tush push? Like the Josh Allen play last year. Same thing. So there's still a human element of where the ball is going to be spotted. Right. Unless we can essentially GPS exactly where it is based on forward progress, and then you get in the ear of somebody and say, you need to place it on that blade of grass. I don't know how that's possible. and certainly you're not speeding the game along in that way that seemingly would not make the game quicker no but i mean anybody else have a problem with what we saw last night i think it's a huge hit visually it looks cool and away we go i add music a little music element to it no interesting i mean each so if it's a first down there's like a first down music it's first down music like for instance on fox if it's a first down you play the upbeat fox music right if it's not a first down you play that slow music the injury music yeah you go womp womp like womp womp not a first down you play the yodels the the yodeler yeah sort of like that again we're just we're spitballing this is what rich eyes and consultants about just like out of the price is right we're yodeling towards the first down i don't know do we have like a family feud it was missing a little bit of production value it is seriously it is seriously missing the direction you like the direction idea yeah yeah you know what i mean like so just because not everybody is sitting in front of the television you're walking past in a bar you're walking past in a living room you're not true you know you just need to know visually in the same way that when you walk past the television during a football game you know exactly the score you know exactly the time you know exactly everything because it's non-stop on the screen in the same way when you're watching a game prior to that you're like how the hell did we watch this not knowing what down and distance is and what time it is and the quarter and what the score is how did we how do we i have no idea just had to wait to hear like yeah like that's what it used to be R.E.S.

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18:53Rich Eisen:Get started by posting your job for free at linkedin.com slash Eisen. Terms and conditions apply. QB of the San Francisco 49ers, Brock Purdy here. How you doing, Brock? Good to see you. Doing great. We're in camp. Just got a baby. Life is good. Hey, I think you buried the headline. I'm not going to lie. Congrats. I'm not going to bury the line, the lie right there. So who? What do we, what do we, boy, girl? What do we have? We have a little baby girl. Her name is Millie. So she's our first child and our hearts are so big right now, man. Look at that picture. All right. Let's be straight up here.

19:30Rich Eisen:There's Millie right there. Your wife's name is, what's her name? Jenna. Okay, Jenna. Straight up. You've got to be honest with me. Did Jenna say that white t-shirt would be good for the picture? She wanted, she told me what to wear, actually, so I'm going to point to her on that. This is not my first it's not my first rodeo you know i mean i got i got this sign here i've had three of them and for sure you know the white t-shirt i i've i've been directed before and produced by my my wife i get it that's a that's a lovely photograph thank you that's you're most welcome so um how how how's that changed your perspective on things brock i mean it's um it's what matters you know just with what we're doing in life and why I'm doing it.

20:20I get to go home to my wife and our little baby and to be able to raise her up in this world. And obviously you want to teach her all the good things and everything for everything to go perfect. But it's handling all of that. And then coming here and work and playing football. But at the end of the day, it's like, it doesn't matter what happens. I get to go home to my beautiful family and just be so grateful for what matters. And so I'm still learning. But, man, my heart is big right now, and I'm just so thankful.

20:48Rich Eisen:Okay. So who had more labor pains, your wife for the baby or you for your contract? Brock? No, I'm going to say my wife. She definitely has to with you. Good answer. You know, that pleases the whole front for the management front. Good answer. Good audible right there. Okay. So, I mean, lots has changed in your life in 2025, pretty much. Would you say? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously, you know, our baby and then earlier this offseason, the contract, getting that handled. So, I mean, there's been a bunch of different moving parts and whatnot. But being married to, you know, Jenna and being my best friend, we've been able to handle all of this.

21:30And then our faith background and understanding what matters most in life and what we're trying to do. What's our purpose? Where are we going? And and keeping things simple. So that's just where we're at right now. It's we're very thankful. but um it's just one day at a time you know not getting caught up in too much stuff i bet i bet

21:49Rich Eisen:what is listen money's great but what is the contract and the the dollars cents term length mean to you from the organization what what does that signify to you and mean to you at the end of the day brock purdy yeah i think it's you know it's them showing you know they're putting their faith and trust in me to lead this organization and, and be the guy that can, you know, help take, take us to new heights. And obviously we're chasing the, the sixth Superbowl ring for this organization and, and for them to, you know, pay me, um, to show me that, Hey, you know, they're putting their faith and trust in me to go do that.

22:26And so that's my goal. Um, taking it one day at a time. And my process is the same with, you know, how I go about studying and the scheme and working with Kyle and my teammates. Um, but, you know, going into year four, it's like, all all right, it's time to obviously be the guy consistently week in and week out, and let's put a season together. Let's get to the playoffs and make a run. And that's how I'm looking at it. I don't want to think too much more than that and make it complicated, but keep it simple and go win games.

22:54Rich Eisen:Now, the dollar figure is robust, without a doubt. And that beautiful baby that we just saw a picture of at the very beginning of this conversation is set. and that's a pretty neat feeling for you and your wife that you can know that right now. That said, what do you say to people who think you could have gotten more based on your situation, your leverage, your performance? What do you say to folks? Could have gotten more, Brock. What do you say to that? I mean, you know, it's a business, so there's a bunch of different things that, you know, can happen. For me, it's, you know, getting what I deserve, yes, but also, you know, we got to put together a team and guys around me and, you know, let's win.

23:37At the end of the day, man, let's win. And that's all I care about. And, you know, to keep fighting for more, you know, millions of dollars and things like that, it's like I got to keep it simple and I know what's most important in my life and that's my family, you know, my faith. And then obviously coming here and elevating everybody else's game and helping us win. And, you know, for me, another however many millions of dollars, like that's not going to satisfy me. Like I have everything that I need. And before this contract with obviously my wife and Jenna, my faith in Jesus Christ, like that's all I need, man.

24:11And I really do believe that. But, you know, it's a business. So we did the business side of things. But outside of that, I'm content. I know the Niners are as well. And now you just surround yourself with a good team and go win, man.

24:22Rich Eisen:Brock Purdy here on the Rich Eisen Show. Started the San Francisco 49ers. Not to turn you into my information, NFL information, man, but there's a lot of health questions right from last year to this year, you know, and obviously getting your receiving core back healthy in terms of week one. Where does this all stand for you that you're willing to share right now, Brock? Yeah, I mean, obviously Brandon and Iyuk are starting star receiver just from his ACL injury last year. You know, I don't know where that lines up in the timeline of things, But, you know, come week one, you know, obviously we're going to rock with whoever we can that's healthy.

25:05Juwan Jennings, Ricky Pearsall, Jacob Cowling, Demarcus Robinson, all those guys, man. And we're excited for every single one of them. And obviously we still got our guys, George Kittle, Chris McCaffrey, Kyle Juszczyk. We got guys that can make plays. And so for us, whoever's out there, we know that we're going to trust come week one and find a way to win. Kyle will do great with the scheme with Clay Kubiak, Mick Lombardi, and we're going to roll, man. So obviously we want all of our guys to be there and healthy, but that's just how things are right now with, you know, Ayuk being hurt, coming back from his ACL, but we're going to be just fine.

25:41So I'm excited for it.

25:42Rich Eisen:And the offense in your third year now running it, you must be now how comfortable compared to obviously year one as a full-time starter. Where are you right now on that front? Yeah, I mean, I definitely really comfortable in it. Just when Kyle calls the play, knowing what to expect, what's my answers, getting in and out of the huddle, being more clear to guys in the huddle on certain things and looks and reminders. Just, you know, going into year four, it's like this maturity, like you've done it, you've been there. And it's another language that, you know, you've studied, you know, for multiple years and now I feel more fluent in it.