Alright, so I decided I was gonna really get the Deebo and Brock Purdy connection. Not just watch the highlights, y’know? I wanted to see the nuts and bolts, how it all clicked, or if it was just hype I was buying into.
So, I started this little side project. I told myself, I’m gonna break down every single target Deebo got from Purdy over a good chunk of games. My thinking was, I’d find some super-secret pattern, some genius offensive scheme that unlocked everything. Simple, right?
What a rabbit hole that turned into. First off, my initial setup for tracking stuff? All wrong. I was trying to neatly categorize routes, defensive coverages, thinking it’d all fit into nice little boxes. Ha! Football ain’t clean, man. It’s messy, chaotic, and players do stuff you can’t just pin down with a label.
Then there’s Purdy.
Everyone and their brother had their takes, right? ‘Game manager,’ ‘system guy,’ ‘Mr. Irrelevant miracle.’ But when I actually sat there and watched him play by play, not just the SportsCenter clips, you see him making these tiny adjustments, these real quick reads. It ain’t always the spectacular bomb downfield, but it’s effective. He just… gets the ball to guys like Deebo in spots where they can actually do their thing. It’s not like he’s got a rocket for an arm like some other quarterbacks I’ve seen, but he’s plenty smart with what he’s got.
And Deebo…
Man, trying to call him just a ‘wide back’ or whatever new term they cook up, it’s lazy. I saw him running actual, legit receiver routes, crisp ones too, getting separation. Then, yeah, next play he lines up in the backfield and just smashes into a linebacker. The dude’s just a pure football player. Trying to fit him into one specific box is just plain stupid. My little spreadsheet I made for tracking his roles? It got messy real quick.
- Initially, I had columns like ‘slot receiver,’ ‘outside receiver,’ ‘running back.’ Pretty basic.
- Then I quickly had to add stuff like ‘motion man pre-snap,’ ‘occasional chip blocker,’ ‘primary decoy.’
- It just kept growing. My neat little project turned into this chaotic map of versatility. I was pulling my hair out trying to keep it organized.
And it reminds me, funny enough, of this one time I tried to organize my garage. I had this grand plan, y’know? Everything was gonna be labeled, every tool in its perfect spot, a place for everything and everything in its place. I spent a whole weekend on it. By Sunday night, it was worse than when I started. Tools everywhere, boxes half-unpacked, just pure, unadulterated chaos. My wife came in, took one look around at the disaster I’d created, and just said, ‘So, you gonna call a professional to sort this mess, or are we just gonna live in this disaster zone you’ve made?’
That’s kinda how I feel after trying to definitively ‘solve’ the Deebo and Purdy thing. You just watch them, you appreciate the controlled chaos, and you eventually realize that sometimes ‘it just works’ is the best explanation you’re gonna get. All that deep-dive analysis I did? It basically told me they’re good football players, they work well together, and they make defenses very confused. Groundbreaking stuff, I know. But going through the whole process, seeing it all up close, that was the real takeaway for me. It ain’t always about the fancy labels or the complex theories; sometimes it’s just about getting the job done, however it looks.
