Joe Burrow is playing like Joe Montana. Brock Purdy is playing like Tom Brady. Both cool, calm, precise passers.
Burrow has beaten a healthy Mahomes three consecutive times. With a high sprained ankle, Mahomes doesnt stand a chance against Burrows on Sunday.
The Eagles have so many weapons and so do the 49ers. Its a toss up.
They showed a flash during the 49ers/Cowboys match: Das Prescott is -14.7% against QBs in the league when under pressure. And he showed it with 2 interceptions. Not the Cowboys QB of the future
I know you have been praising the new Tom Brady who currently QB's SF's offence since he came into the game vs. Miami when Jimmy G. was injured, but please let me highlight a few things before he is actually crowned the new GOAT:
1) He has now QB'd in 8 games thus far. 6 regular season games, 1 wild card game and divisional round game.
2) In those 8 games he has only faced a top tier defence, that being Dallas, in just 1 game.
3) With the new Tom Brady as QB, SF has averaged well over 30 points per game against those 7 mostly bottom to mid-tier defences BUT scored just 19 points against the top tier defence of Dallas.
4) Dallas has speed on defence and they mostly bottled-up SF's run game in addition to putting more than a piddling pass rush against the new Tom Brady as his other 7 opponents could and did not.
5) If Dallas has a deficit on defence, it would be it's corners and possibly it's safeties. One of the new Tom Brady's weaknesses, is that he struggles to throw and complete passes to the 2 outer thirds of the width of the playing field. If you have noticed, almost all of passes are thrown down the middle third of the field which the Dallas corners should have but but not defend well. Had Dallas done this the game may have been won by Dallas instead.
6) Philly does not have the deficit that Dallas has on defence. Their corners are all-pros. They also led the league by a wide margin in sacks. Their defence is top tier. If they a weakness, it may be in their run defence. Limit the run, pressure the QB as much as they have all season long and especially cut off the middle third of the field and force the new Tom Brady to throw to the outer 2 thirds of the field. That is their winning formula on defence.
7) Here's the other part: The SF defence does not do well against a team with a mobile/running QB and Philly has just about the best in the league. Also, the Phily O-line is legendary. Much better than the Dallas O-line and they will control the line of scrimmage against the SF defence.
8) So don't crown Purdy as the new GOAT yet, he has deficits, and they will be on display against SF. He is football smart, has situational game awareness galore, has starter talent but far, far away from becoming the new GOAT, let alone on a par with Burrow, and Mahommes and notches below Lawrence and Herbert and it mostly has to do with the strength of his arm which has led the Niner's coaching staff to limit his throws to the middle 3rd of the field.
This is how we discuss the game of football in an actual NFL Playoffs thread, and NOT by tossing out betting lines and then moaning and groaning or thumping and pumping about our bet results.