49ers - Brock Purdy - Still and Always #1

I don't know if USSSA has killed participation but it's definitely changed the demographics of who's playing baseball. Baseball was already an expensive sport compared to Football or Basketball adding in the club fees hasn't really helped with that. What we've got now is a group of more affluent, mostly white kids playing with private coaches and the like. What ends up happening is those more affluent suburban school have 100 kids show up for Freshman baseball when 10-12 ever end up playing so if you're not one of those 10 kids who play you go find another travel team. We don't see this so much in Iowa since the high school season overlaps with most travel ball in the summer but it's a real thing. The club sports model has taken over baseball from being a school sport.

In Iowa in the DSM burbs you either have to be an elite player or you basically quit. It's kind of the other problem. You have 70 kids go out as freshman then there are like 4 left by senior year because if you aren't part of the top guys you don't get much playing time or practice time and you fall further behind the top guys.

My middle kid joined a fairly chill club team - total cost including uniforms is going to be about 500.00. That sounds like a lot but Little League in Ankeny is 250.00. It's not a cheap sport at all.
 
A combination of three areas should be used to rank an athlete:

1. Physical skills or capabilities,
2. Sport/game knowledge, and
3. Leadership (which may also mean following or supporting someone else when necessary) skills.

Brock has always been off-the-charts with his leadership skills (which, btw, would be enough to make him moderately successful in any sport). He is clearly in the top rank for football knowledge (ability to recognize and read defenses, use his eyes to mis-direct opponents, play decoy to extend plays, etc.). Finally, although he may not be the biggest, or strongest, or fastest to ever play quarterback; he has sufficient physical capabilities to do what has to be done.

Unless and until opponents find a way to degrade him physically or come up with a series of brilliant defensive strategies (because it's unlikely that they will fool Brock twice), Brock is going to be around and be one of the top quarterbacks in the game.
 
Certainly not. I think Mama Purdy might have a few words with him if he started tanning his perineum, raving about Ayahuasca, and going on four day darkness retreats.
Guess you didn't appreciate the Beatles and Timothy Leary either. Yeah I thought they were an awful band, worse after Lennon's JC comments in "66.

The Monkeys were much better.
 
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In Iowa in the DSM burbs you either have to be an elite player or you basically quit. It's kind of the other problem. You have 70 kids go out as freshman then there are like 4 left by senior year because if you aren't part of the top guys you don't get much playing time or practice time and you fall further behind the top guys.

My middle kid joined a fairly chill club team - total cost including uniforms is going to be about 500.00. That sounds like a lot but Little League in Ankeny is 250.00. It's not a cheap sport at all.

Ankeny little league is garbage compared to the other community little leagues around the metro. I’ve coached little league the past 4 years and coach a USSSA team for our son and am not sure I want to deal with Ankeny little league moving forward.
 
Ankeny little league is garbage compared to the other community little leagues around the metro. I’ve coached little league the past 4 years and coach a USSSA team for our son and am not sure I want to deal with Ankeny little league moving forward.

Honestly I've had an awesome experience and I've coached there for probably 7 or 8 years now. That said, I have no experience with any other league other than Walnut Creek which was also pretty good. Maybe I'm easy to please.
 
Correct, KCCI could not have shown the 49's and Arizonia game today as both are in the NFC, which gives those rights to Fox. If it's an interleague game, then the home team determines if it's on CBS or Fox.
They changed it this offseason, here is an article explaining it, basically CBS has pledged to show AFC games and Fox NFC games but they can switch a few games.

Interesting, explaining the new NFL media rights contract. The "flexing" is new and should provide better matchups for the TV viewers. Good for the NFL.

Thanks for the article!
I know this has been addressed already, and the old rules of which games go on which networks no longer apply, but I just wanted to point out that under the old setup (NFC on Fox, AFC on CBS; or going further back, NFC on CBS and AFC on NBC) for inter-conference games it was the visiting team that determined which network had it, not the home team.
With the new rules, could a CBS network (KCCI) have opted to show the 49ers vs AZ game if they wanted to, according to the new 'flex' policy?

I guess we haven't seen too much of the new rules in play yet, as the season is still young?
 
With 81 home games MLB has an attendance problem so they have to penalize fans with the TV blackouts. I’m sure they’ve analyzed it and the numbers support their strategy but long-term you wonder if it hurts the sport. Probably already has.
It’s killed the sport. Young kids just aren’t into baseball anymore because they can’t watch it.
I don't know if USSSA has killed participation but it's definitely changed the demographics of who's playing baseball. Baseball was already an expensive sport compared to Football or Basketball adding in the club fees hasn't really helped with that. What we've got now is a group of more affluent, mostly white kids playing with private coaches and the like. What ends up happening is those more affluent suburban school have 100 kids show up for Freshman baseball when 10-12 ever end up playing so if you're not one of those 10 kids who play you go find another travel team. We don't see this so much in Iowa since the high school season overlaps with most travel ball in the summer but it's a real thing. The club sports model has taken over baseball from being a school sport.
MLB does seem to have a huge problem. If you can't interest the kids, at least the majority of them, your fans drop, both now and in the future.

Already happening with kids and older folks like me.
 
A combination of three areas should be used to rank an athlete:

1. Physical skills or capabilities,
2. Sport/game knowledge, and
3. Leadership (which may also mean following or supporting someone else when necessary) skills.

Brock has always been off-the-charts with his leadership skills (which, btw, would be enough to make him moderately successful in any sport). He is clearly in the top rank for football knowledge (ability to recognize and read defenses, use his eyes to mis-direct opponents, play decoy to extend plays, etc.). Finally, although he may not be the biggest, or strongest, or fastest to ever play quarterback; he has sufficient physical capabilities to do what has to be done.

Unless and until opponents find a way to degrade him physically or come up with a series of brilliant defensive strategies (because it's unlikely that they will fool Brock twice), Brock is going to be around and be one of the top quarterbacks in the game.
Well said! Just think of all the QB's on all of the NFL teams, most of whom are or were touted to be more successful than Brock. Then look at how they largely perform (or under perform) in comparison to Brock.

I know it's early in his career, and Brock is on a great team, and with a team and coach that he fits in well with, but he appears to be the real deal. I think he's going to be around for a long time.
 
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McCaffrey is unreal. This run where he hurdled a tackle and barely broke stride is incredible. Admittedly it was a pathetic tackle attempt, but still an incredible play.

He has GREAT vision and instinct with his blockers, is very quick, strong, and elusive, and has just enough speed to be great. And he is great. You've got to wrap him up or he'll run by or thru you.
 
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He's just lucky to have great players he can throw to. Never mind that Joe Montana had Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Roger Craig.
FWIW, Montana's first Superbowl win in the 1981 season was with WRs Dwight Clark (10'th round pick) and Freddy Solomon, and RBs Earl Cooper and Ricky Patton. #2 in 1984 had Clark and Solomon with RBs Craig and Wendell Tyler.
 
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A combination of three areas should be used to rank an athlete:

1. Physical skills or capabilities,
2. Sport/game knowledge, and
3. Leadership (which may also mean following or supporting someone else when necessary) skills.

Brock has always been off-the-charts with his leadership skills (which, btw, would be enough to make him moderately successful in any sport). He is clearly in the top rank for football knowledge (ability to recognize and read defenses, use his eyes to mis-direct opponents, play decoy to extend plays, etc.). Finally, although he may not be the biggest, or strongest, or fastest to ever play quarterback; he has sufficient physical capabilities to do what has to be done.

Unless and until opponents find a way to degrade him physically or come up with a series of brilliant defensive strategies (because it's unlikely that they will fool Brock twice), Brock is going to be around and be one of the top quarterbacks in the game.
I thought he did this brilliantly a couple times this weekend.

Even more than his eyes, he sets his feet as if he is going one direction but shifts them faster than most to pass a completely different direction. Not only does he dupe defenders one way, he is balanced for an accurate throw to be made the other way.
 
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