Mike Florio on if Brock Purdy contract is a good deal

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00:00So are you reserving judgment until that?

00:04Reserving judgment on what?

00:05Like, do you think without knowing whether it's two or three years,

00:09is this a good deal for the Niners?

00:12Well, the initial indication suggests it's a good deal for both sides.

00:17This is the guy who was the last pick in the draft.

00:20He was never expected to get a second contract as anything other than a backup.

00:24So for him to end up with $53 million per year in new money,

00:27$45 million on the six-year deal,

00:29I was saying a few weeks ago the Kirk Cousins contract makes sense for Brock Purdy.

00:34And what's Cousins' deal worth?

00:36$45 million per year at signing.

00:38He signed it as a free agent.

00:39How much was fully guaranteed at signing?

00:41$100 million as a practical matter.

00:44It was $90 million, but there's another $10 million that kicked in earlier this year.

00:47The Falcons let it kick in.

00:49They're paying him $100 million fully guaranteed.

00:51And I've seen some suggest that the full guarantee for Purdy is $100 million.

00:56So I think it's a win-win.

00:58The reality is going to be, does Purdy keep playing well?

01:03If he does, you're going to see that average dip farther and farther down the stack.

01:09And if he doesn't, then you start looking at the deal and figuring out where the breaking point is.

01:16That's why that Deshaun Watson contract with the Browns is such an albatross and an outlier.

01:21When you commit to five years, five years fully guaranteed, nobody does that.

01:26Five years fully, and nobody's ever going to do it again after what happened with Watson.

01:28If the player doesn't deliver, you're stuck.

01:32So that's why the true commitment is so critical because the team needs to have the flexibility to say, you know what?

01:40This hasn't worked the way we thought.

01:42And when you're a top five guy, a true top five guy, Burrow, Allen, Jackson, Mahomes, et cetera, it never happens.

01:49Once you've made it clear you're one of the best of the best, you don't suddenly wake up one day and you can't play anymore.

01:57And it makes it safer to do a long-term deal with a player like that because he's proven that he's great and that's not going to change.

02:05With Purdy, I still think we have to see how this all plays out.

02:09Look at how they played last year with all the injuries and everything.

02:12We've seen plenty of quarterbacks out there, great quarterbacks who have overcome that and taken the team to the playoffs.

02:17The record down the stretch last year was not good.

02:19So I think that we've yet to know how it's going to break, how his career is going to break.

02:25But I think there are indications in the contract based upon what we've seen so far.

02:29And I don't think it was an accident that this thing got leaked at 5 o'clock Eastern time on a Friday.

02:33That's where bad news goes to die, not good news goes to thrive.

02:36I think when we start digging into this thing, we're going to realize, hey, you know what?

02:40As quarterback contracts go, this is pretty good for the 49ers.

02:43It gives them protection.

02:44It gives them flexibility.

02:45And it forces Purdy to keep proving he can play at a high level.

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