49ers 36, Seahawks 24
Q. Brock, you said during the week that you saw a lot of things Seattle's defense that you saw from Baltimore last year with Mike McDonald but you obviously performed a lot better this time out. Were there things you saw this game you kind of thought okay, I see this, now I know how to navigate it?
BROCK PURDY: Sort of. I think just going into the game, you know, if they run this, this is my answer and simple as that. I just try to keep it simple and just check the ball down when I needed to and hit my number one or number two in my progression as efficiently as I could and I just kept it simple. Last year in that game, I feel like I just got out of rhythm and I was trying to force stuff and it just -- I just wasn't playing in the right mindset of being aggressive, being smart and taking what the defense gave me. So I learned my lesson in that game and coming into this game, obviously new personnel, it's the Seahawks, not the Ravens so to me it was, right, similar scheme, yes, but this is what we're trying to attack and how can I be efficient as best as I can? So that was my mindset.
Q. Brock, you mentioned the kind of need to find your identity as a team and you have a game like this that you need to win and you have some injuries and unseen replays and all these things going against you. What kind of step toward finding your identity do you think you took tonight?
BROCK PURDY: Yeah, obviously there's always going to be stuff that you can clean up and for us, our standard is high here and so I think a lot of us will go to, all right, we could have done this or that and be better here, but I think at the end of the day, man, it's a team sport and so to go four quarters with all these different kinds of motions and parts of the game and to be able to rally together and defense get a turnover and us score a touchdown at the end, that's team football, man. That's the sport that we play, so I feel like we did take a step in the right direction for sure and we're always going to be hard on ourselves and need to grow and get better at, but I really do think that we all, as a team, came together and found a way that ended really well, so.
Q. Would you please take us through the touchdown passes to Kittle and your trust value with him?
BROCK PURDY: Yeah, the first one you talking about?
Q. Both.
BROCK PURDY: Both. The first one, man, yeah obviously a third down play but for us, I saw just him have leverage on the outside and I just needed to give him some space, he did a great job of breaking down and being at the right depth and at the landmark and he's really good at that so for me, it's just trusting and laying it on the sideline knowing that my guy can go get it and the fact that he kept his two feet in was crazy. So awesome job on that and then the second one, same thing. It was pretty tight coverage, he had a safety coming down on him and then he cross face, tight window and it just comes down to that component of trust, man. That's how -- that's both of them. Both touchdowns were just a trust factor. So something that we've continued to grow at throughout the offseason and throughout the games that we've played together and tonight it showed really well, so very proud of him.
Q. Brock, did this feel like how it should feel? Like did you kind of feel like this was a get right kind of game for the offense?
BROCK PURDY: I mean, yeah, every opportunity we step out on the field, man, we want to do that. We want to get better and prove to ourselves that we're going to play at the standard that we need to play at and that we're capable of playing at and so tonight was another opportunity, it was a Thursday night game and a great team in the Seahawks, great environment, so for us to come out and just do our job, do it well and be efficient I thought for all of us, like I said, the right step in the right direction and so there's stuff that we still get better at but more than anything, man, I'm proud of just how we all stuck together as a unit and when guys got banged up or went down, the next guy came in and did their job really well so that's a good sign for all of us and we just got to continue to walk this road together.
Q. Brock, what would you say about the rookies and the performance they had tonight speaking of stepping up?
BROCK PURDY: Yeah, it was awesome, seeing Renardo get his interception. Malik on the defensive side, that always fires us up on offense, and obviously Isaac getting in at the end and pulling away. It was sort of like a little throwback memory of like when Jordan Mason got in a couple years ago and he had his run at the end and so, but for those guys to step in, man, it's the NFL. This ain't college. It's the real deal. You're playing against the best of the best so for those guys to show up on Thursday night, a prime time game like that, it means a lot to all of us as a team and them showing that, so we all got their backs and we're going to continue to grow together. Thanks, guys.
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