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It's interesting that based on DVOA, at least, the better 49ers teams have been recent, not the 1980s Montana or 1990s Young teams. Here are the best 49ers teams by DVOA through 5 games.
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Brock Purdy is the only QB in NFL history to start 4-0 with 1 or fewer sacks + fumbles + INT
Brock Purdy this season
W-L 4-0
Sacked 0
Fumbles 0
INT 1
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The 49ers this offseason effectively added these pieces to a 13-win team:
Mike Evans
Deebo Samuel
Dre Greenlaw
Osa Odighizuwa
Fred Warner
Nick Bosa
Yet all most could talk about was Myles Garrett (even though Rams lost Jared Verse). But reality played out on the field
I subscribed to @sfstandard during the NFL season just for @LombardiHimself‘s unparalleled 49ers coverage and analysis.
I know there are hacks to get the content for free, but I wanted to support the best journalism in the sport.
(Unsubscribing for now as I’m not SF-based.)
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Show me a team that lost...
🏈High quality QB1 (#2 QBR) for 50% of year
🏈DPOY-level EDGE1
🏈HOF-level LB1
🏈HOF-level TE1 for 50% of year
🏈Top edge-setting DL (and first-round pick)
🏈WR1
🏈WR2 for 50% of year
.. and came close to 13 wins. Outside of 2025 49ers, you can't
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Eagles fans signing "Goodbye!" to George Kittle as the injury cart comes out
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Eagles fans stood & clapped as Kittle was carted off of the field.
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Actually most sports fans are a hell of a lot more normal than e.g. this dude
It's something I've long drawn attention to. They're the shock troops of normie conformity. Anything that might strike an ESPN host as "weird" or "racist," they will rush to attack it. They were the most eager to declare Black Lives Matter and denounce Trump as a fascist.
One silver lining of the explosion in sports betting is that many of these types now just obsess over their parlays and spare little time for politics.
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For the 1st time in 25 years not a single square mile of California is dry on the US Drought Monitor. Have to go back to December 2000 to find a similar situation. If you're 25 or younger you've always lived in a world where California has been entering or recovering from drought
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How many expected points did each #NFL team gain from penalties on plays that otherwise would’ve gone for no yardage?
1. NYG 51.9
2. DAL 42.3
3. WAS 37.4
...
32. SF 13.9
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Nate Silver's new "QBERT" metric has Brock Purdy at #1 in the NFL at 113.6.
For perspective, Silver says a 100 score is "MVP-level" and a 110 score is "among the best QB seasons of all-time".
Top-3
1. Purdy: 113.6
2. Drake Maye: 109.3
3. Matthew Stafford: 104.1
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UPDATE: How all NFL quarterbacks have performed since Brock Purdy took over the league in 2022. He's stood alone
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The Democratic equivalent of the Tea Party is basically Heather Cox Richardsonism, a kind of purity politics rooted in belief in the historical righteousness of the progressive project paired with a loose grasp if not an outright disdain for the role played by public opinon.
