It’s insane to me that some people were calling for them to trade for Cousins last night. By some people I mean idiot Gottlieb and is trolls.
1.) With Cousins price tag they couldn’t afford half of the excellent cast around Purdy. I realize this is the last year of Cousins’ deal, but if you trade for him what do you do at QB next year? Cause you can’t resign him and keep all these other players.
2.) Cousins has pretty freakin good weapons too (Jefferson, prime Thielen, Addison, Cook before this year, did he play with Diggs?) and still has never won a playoff game, had the 4th-most turnovers of any QB in 2022, has roughly half the TO/turnover ratio that Purdy has, and has a 13-basis point worse QBR than Purdy. Even if you think he’s a better QB than Purdy (which I don’t), he doesn’t objectively manage the game better then Purdy and wouldn’t give SF a better chance to win.
I’ll also say McCaffrey was a huge addition to SF. Huge, no doubt. But Deebo, Kittle, Aiyuk, the OL, Bosa, Greenlaw, etc were all still there with Lance and Jimmy G at the helm. And they were 3-4 before Brock took over. They lost to my freakin Broncos and the Bears for God sakes. So he’s also objectively doing more with almost all the same weapons than other starting QBs have done