Glock Purdy. Zero Dark Purdy. Brockness Monster. Mr Relevant. Those are just a few of the dozens of nicknames the internet has given San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy.<\/p>\n
Late last week, defensive coordinator Raheem Morris was giddy about the team intercepting Purdy during practice: \u201cWe got a Brock pick today. I let him know that right after practice. That was awesome. He\u2019s going to be so mad at me for telling the media that, but you guys were there. That\u2019s a big one.\u201d Once one of the reporters told Morris there was another one, he responded, \u201cWas it two? Oh, I didn\u2019t get a chance to brag.\u201d<\/p>\n
Morris was bragging as if those opportunities were few and far between. It led to him giving Purdy a new nickname:<\/p>\n
\u201dNo, no, no. I wouldn\u2019t say a lot. I mean, he is the layer king. He\u2019s so accurate. I mean, he puts the ball in the right spot. He keeps the ball in his hands. He\u2019s tortured me for years. And it\u2019s so nice to be around him. It\u2019s so refreshing to be around that whole group and the energy that they bring. Getting a chance to be nosy and go in there with those guys is always fun because you learn from Mick [Lombardi], you learn from Brock, Mac, all those guys that are in that room, and I enjoy going there and getting to be with those guys sometimes too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLayer king\u201d is fitting for the player we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
Purdy is listed at 6\u20191\u201d, but that might be on a good day. Purdy is on record saying he has a difficult time seeing his intended target due to the size of the players in front of him. He said that\u2019s the case about 40 percent of the time. So it\u2019s no surprise that he\u2019s mastered the skill of layering the ball over the middle of the field.<\/p>\n
Is this a nickname that\u2019ll stick during the season and beyond? Or will another nickname for the 49ers franchise quarterback surface? Either way, \u201clayer king\u201d has some staying power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glock Purdy. Zero Dark Purdy. Brockness Monster. Mr Relevant. Those are just a few of the dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,47545,75144,2745,99],"class_list":["post-692164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers-roster","tag-san-francisco-49ers-rumors","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}