"Pedestrian" Purdy

[FallOf81]

Nothing like some off season sports chatter to grow the fire.

CBS Sports Cover 3 Podcast discuss Iowa State's prospects in 2021 after NFL Draft early entry deadline

Tom Fornelli, Danny Kanell and Bud Elliot gave their takes on Iowa State in 2021.

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[83cy]

Brock was somewhat pedestrian. No fault on his own, he had no deep threat weapon this year.

 

[mj4cy]

First part of the year they aren't far off. However he had a stretch down the end of the regular season where he was playing as good as any other QB in the country.

 

[JM4CY]

First part of the year they aren't far off. However he had a stretch down the end of the regular season where he was playing as good as any other QB in the country.

That Baylor clusterf*ck screwed some of his efficiency #s too

 

[HFCS]

First part of the year they aren't far off. However he had a stretch down the end of the regular season where he was playing as good as any other QB in the country.

Let people think that first part of the season was the norm rather than the rest of his career.

 

[mj4cy]

Let people think that first part of the season was the norm rather than the rest of his career.

Yeah sometimes writers will catch one or two games and do the lazy thing and take the low hanging fruit.

 

[Rural]

Didn't he have multiple games with only mid-20s pass attempts?

That'll never write much of a gunslinger legacy.

 

[Cyforce]

Seemed pretty fair. Would of respected it more if he named Texas' QB. Kid looked impressive in the Bowl game.

Purdy needs to step up his game if 2021 exceeds 2020.

 

[Al_4_State]

The "Brock Purdy sucks" narrative blows my mind.

I mean, it probably helps keep him grinding, but holy **** is it just wildly off-base.

 

[exCyDing]

I think there were several factors that lead to a drop in production from Purdy. First, ISU threw on 54% of plays in 2019 and 45% in 2020. Obviously, Hall's emergence had a big impact on how the offense was called. Second, ISU didn't have a go-to deep threat in 2020. I can count on one hand how many long TDs throws we had in 2020, which is a trade-off when your best targets are tight ends.

Hopefully, Milton will return at full strength in 2021 and one of our young wide receivers can emerge as a consistent threat. With the offense coming back, I'd expect Purdy to improve on his efficiency metrics, but not necessarily putting up eye-popping statistics.

 

[Aclone]

Sets a school record for season completion percentage by hitting on well over 70% of his throws down the stretch. I think it was 77% prior to the Fiesta Bowl.

Still sucks. Makes perfect sense.

(Do I really need the jimlad?)

 

[CyberJJJ]

The other thing that makes Purdy different is his ability to scramble to not only avoid a sack but also to pick up timely 1st downs. He's not a Lamar Jackson type of running quarterback, but he runs ( I didn't say throws!) more like Patrick Mahomes...picks his spots.

 

[PSYclone22]

From the link:

"But I thought this year Brock Purdy was very pedestrian. And you can't win any Power 5 conference with just a pedestrian quarterback."

We were about 40 yards away from winning the conference (that's my recollection of where he threw the pick on the last drive). Seems to me that either a pedestrian QB can win a conference just fine or Brock Purdy is not pedestrian. 40 yards in a one score game should not define this either way.

 

[HFCS]

From the link:

"But I thought this year Brock Purdy was very pedestrian. And you can't win any Power 5 conference with just a pedestrian quarterback."

We were about 40 yards away from winning the conference (that's my recollection of where he threw the pick on the last drive). Seems to me that either a pedestrian QB can win a conference just fine or Brock Purdy is not pedestrian. 40 yards in a one score game should not define this either way.

Not to mention our 10 conference games had the exact same result as the conference "champ" with the exception of our OKSt loss being a better loss than KSU.

To say ISU was a long ways off winning the B12 is absurd. If that's the case than no second place team or CCG game loser has ever been close to winning a conference.

 

[LivntheCyLife]

I think there were several factors that lead to a drop in production from Purdy. First, ISU threw on 54% of plays in 2019 and 45% in 2020. Obviously, Hall's emergence had a big impact on how the offense was called. Second, ISU didn't have a go-to deep threat in 2020. I can count on one hand how many long TDs throws we had in 2020, which is a trade-off when your best targets are tight ends.

Hopefully, Milton will return at full strength in 2021 and one of our young wide receivers can emerge as a consistent threat. With the offense coming back, I'd expect Purdy to improve on his efficiency metrics, but not necessarily putting up eye-popping statistics.

Purdy also didn't play Louisiana-Monroe or any other non-conference cupcakes in 2020.

 

[dualthreat]

Brock was somewhat pedestrian. No fault on his own, he had no deep threat weapon this year.

What would you call the 9 other QBs in this league he was better than?

 

[PSYclone22]

I obviously need to pull together some data to see how "pedestrian" Purdy was.

 

[dualthreat]

For the record, Brock is the best QB we've had in school history by just about any metric and it's not that close.

He's also the best QB in the conference.

 

[Aclone]

From the link:

"But I thought this year Brock Purdy was very pedestrian. And you can't win any Power 5 conference with just a pedestrian quarterback."

We were about 40 yards away from winning the conference (that's my recollection of where he threw the pick on the last drive). Seems to me that either a pedestrian QB can win a conference just fine or Brock Purdy is not pedestrian. 40 yards in a one score game should not define this either way.

IIRC, it was 30 yards before the two penalties.

 

[PSYclone22]

Purdy in 2020:

15th out of 124 (2nd in Big 12) qualified QBs in ESPN's QBR at 78.8 (ranges from 0 to 100 with 50 being average). Rattler was 11th at 81.2.

14th out of 124 (1st in Big 12) in Total EPA (Expected Points Added) with 59.0. Rattler was 16th with 56.9.

Rattler was better in sheer passing numbers, but Purdy was better at rushing and MUCH better at avoiding sacks. Those sacks add up (Purdy took only 13 on a combined 378 throws+sacks whereas Rattler took 22 on 339 throws+sacks [I don't have number of scrambles to show true number of dropbacks]).

But sure, he was pedestrian.