Brock Purdy Continues to Shine: Randy Cross Discusses 49ers' Path

Let's go to this 2026 team here. How come every time I watch Brock Purdy play, I mean, I just see this guy getting better and better and better. I mean, Randy, he is just maybe not so great in the second half of this one here, but man, is he a great football player. Are you surprised at his development with Kyle Shanahan? Well, if you separate those questions or you separate those subjects, are you surprised that an un you know basically the last guy in the draft from Iowa State would be dominating at the NFL level right now at record levels you'd be a liar if you said no i expected this um Kyle Shanahan has done unbelievable things with Brock Purdy but also give credit to Brock Purdy Brock Purdy has worked his ass off um and he's got some pretty good weapons at his disposal he's got a real good offensive line and he has got that thing and you saw it with that number 16 guy from Notre Dame he had it for his whole career so did Steve Young to a degree so did Jeff Garcia that timing that bounce that you know the accuracy and he's just refined it and refined it and refined it in fact you know as good as he was last few years I think this year he's probably having his best season he's ever had uh doing that i mean his his accuracy can be pretty scary when you watch that thing from the end zone you see the size of the windows he's hitting you know Kyle Shanahan made a comment in his uh post-game press conference you know he was like hey it's great being six and oh it's great being you know where we are right now but he's going to be gauged on what he does in the postseason just as you guys were you know i mean no matter how many wins you have it's now time to another win another championship in San Francisco and that's the only time that he's going to be gauged when we're talking about whether or not he's truly one of the greatest coaches of all time right right he's getting there um but like you said it's not you know how you win during the regular season it's how you finish uh and the standard which is a term that's you know pretty common in the San Francisco 49er building the standard is the standard and the standard is a platinum trophy it's got a little football on top of it um and that's how you're supposed to end seasons end the report period and if there's anything i wish for that organization all those people in there all those players is a chance to finish the season the right way and once they do it could be contagious it could get ugly again they could win a bunch but it's there's no other way to put it i mean you're supposed to finish things off and they know that. And I think the fans know that. And I think, you know, that's why they get so nervous during the season when guys start going down and guys start getting hurt. But one thing that doesn't get talked about enough, because we all talk about Shanahan and we talk about Purdy and we talk about some of the individuals. How about the job that John Lynch and the personnel department has done, not only drafting, but free agency and everything else, because they keep coming up and churning out these guys that you see them on the field they're going damn where did they find this guy and they just keep hitting on them and I think that's that's something you got to pay a lot of attention to as far as their success goes