Film Study: Trey Lance Wasn't good enough for the San Francisco 49ers 

Sorry, but there is no basis on which to say Purdy couldn't make the little flippy throw that Lance did. In fact, Purdy wiggled around in the pocket and made several of those last season.

As a Niners fan, it was a disaster. A few decent intermediate plays doesn't negate the full half of inefficiency.

By now I'm sure that you've seen Purdy can make ANY play that Lance can, and about 1,000 that Lance can't. There was a scramble throw to Deebo in the Tampa Bay where Purdy kept his eyes downfield and threw a strike that went over 20 yards in the air. Purdy is the highest rated rookie QB in history, and through his first 17 games is the highest rated QB in NFL history. He has FIVE games in that span with 3+ TD's and a QB rating of 140+, which is a record for a QB's first two seasons. Kurt Warner had the record of three such games.

What the heck do you mean purdy couldn't scramble and hit an open receiver off schedule?!? He did that last year multiple times... heck Pete Carroll said he looked liked Fran Tarkenton out there after the NFC West Divisional Round.... Maybe watch his highlights again from last year and you'll be more educated about what Brock can do. He's way more dynamic than people give him credit for.

3:28 Purdy can make this play. Did similar things multiple times last year and he's better at the offscript stuff than Lance.You're thinking about Jimmy not being able to make that play.

UM 3:55 Purdy has literally done those type plays multiple times. Go back and watch the miami game, go back and watch the play against houstan when he caught a bad snap and made a play. Or the play against tampa bay where he swiped the defender away and made the throw to deebo. And the throw against the seahawks where aiyuk didn't catch it.

Purdy was running out of the box and tossing dimes in multiple instances. The third take you lost me.

I definitely prefer Brock Purdy over Trey Lance.

Why did a win now team draft one of the rawest qbs in recent memory? He's not good right now, but he just needs p!aying time to see if those traits can actually develop into a viable NFL player and he's never going to get that from the 49ers. He's honestly getting screwed by the teams situation he was never going to be the player this team needed just too damn raw.

The first point we as Niner fans have to realize is, this competition is for QB2. Brock Purdy is QB1. Sam or Trey are competing for QB2. Secondly, the issues we saw with Trey are the same things that have hindered him for his career. Lack of accuracy and he can’t consistently hit the easy throws.

I been watching football since 1957. Saw the shotgun invented by the Niners; the "Alley Op" passes on black and white TV. Seen a lot of football and a lot of quarterbacks in my time. I can tell when a QB has it and when he doesn't. Lance does not have it. He has trouble with the lay ups and that is a killer since the name of the game is keep the ball moving forward. I no longer have expectations of him being a starting QB.

We know EXACTLY who the QB in San Fran is. There is absolutely no question at all.

Trey could not read the defense before the snap. This is a different between a great QB and a mediocre QB. He also has a habit to stare down the WR he is going to throw to, and this is why DB can read him.

QB School blows this evaluation out of the water. Please go watch that film breakdown and open your eyes. It wasn't pretty folks.

I don't get how there could be any question at quarterback for the 49ers, Brock Purdy already showed us everything we needed to see. Sure, he was throwing to a top-notch skill group so Deebo, Kittle, and the rest get a good amount of credit, but even taking that into account Purdy was kicking ass from when he got his first start to the moment he got knocked out of the NFC championship. He had poise, accuracy, the ability to actually throw a deep ball, and he wasn't a statue in the pocket either. Even if he's already most of the way to his celling, that's still plenty good enough for the 49ers to win a super bowl.

No more training wheels on Trey. He should be accountable for all his game. Good or bad

Entering the pre-season, Lance had an uphill battle. He's competing with Purdy who has an actually good resume last season. Lance got hurt before having any real chance to show what he's got, Jimmy G. actually abruptly came in and did well covering things, then got hurt. Then Purdy came in out of nowhere and played well in 9 regular season games to include making it to the NFC championship. Feel bad for Lance, though. Just simply never had the chance to truly play games due to crazy circumstances. 3rd year guy, sure, but on field experience as a QB isn't there, and we have seen so little. The team is built to win now and it can't afford to give time to develop a QB. Most especially now since Purdy has that resume I mentioned and proven himself. The first game of the 49ers this season is over and he showed why it was the right move to have him be the starter. I'm sure Lance is glad to be gone from S.F. but Dallas isn't any better. Prescott is over there. I highly, highly doubt Dak is going to play to such a bad level that he's going to lose his starting job there to Lance. Unless Dak goes down to a big injury, Lance isn't going to get the playtime he needs in Big D.

Trey Lance was still falling asleep on the job on game day last week. He was not mentally and physically ready on game day. I can see the shadow of Giovanni Carmazzi following Trey Lance wherever he goes on football field. We would like to give him another chance in the next game before we put one more nail in the coffin of his NFL career. I just can't wait to see his performance against the Broncos on this Saturday afternoon at Levi's Stadium.

Like everyone else who watched Purdy last year, we already know he can make that on-the-move throw. He's done it in games that count, the playoffs for goodness sake. That game against the Seahawks, he booted left, ran all the way to the right, chased by lineman, and hit Aiyuk in the hands in the corner of the endzone. Should've been a 30 yard TD, but Aiyuk has hands of stone. Idk why Kreug keeps saying Aiyuk has great hands.

Ive seen brock make this throw a couple times 4:19

Its crazy to think that the 49ers literally got rid of Jimmy G for a project QB with 3 1sts. At this time Brock Purdy was also a unknown. I was pissed at this whole extravaganza they did whilst the majority of the fan base was manipulated by 49er youtubers convincing them that Jimmy G is crap, Trey is wayyy better & will be the king of the NFC. BRUH!

After this video about the QB who couldn't you should do a video about the one who could.... Aiden O'Connell lmao

Ive never seen someone so overrated and basically given a handout his whole career more than trey lance, who said he was ready for the NFL to begin with? Why did he even go 3rd overall?? If this was the 2000s or even 2010s dude wouldnt have been picked until the 6th round

Once the fans see a hero ( Brock ) win 7 games until he suffered a season ending injury, that hero will remain until he fails to win another 7 games in a row.

I think Darnold and Allen played well. That's what I think.

If Purdy's doesn't come back to 100% strength.....the Yerba Buena 49ers will be lucky to win 4 games this year,

There was a zone read play in the second quarter that he made the wrong read on as well. The untrained eye wouldn’t be able to pick up on it, and even though it’s somewhat of a nitpick, it does matter when you are competing for a starting job against a QB in whom you have an advantage over in that skill department, and that skill isn’t living up to its full potential.

Lance is a 3 tool guy. Slow feet, slow processing, innacurate Seems like such a great kid, solid human but is living in QB purgatory

Anyone with half a brain knows who the QB is going to be. Trey will be lucky to get the QB2 job

Trey Lance is niners' biggest dud.

3:49..the play you are referencing, that no other 49er QB would make. Purdy extends plays ALL THE TIME. Anyone that watched the 49ers last yr should know this. I recommend you watch the playoff games Purdy was in before you make assumptions. Great video otherwise.

He will be playing the Raiders again as a Dallas Cowboy.

Dweley is interesting. Great hands but any of us could block as well as he can😂

Glad to hear you back bro 😎

We took a gamble going for the guy with “a higher ceiling”. We could have taken any other qb and Kyle could have made it work. Except Fields though. Kyle would run him to the ground in his first season like he did with RGIII.

I keep thinking about what we could've use for those 3 1st rd picks we used for him, but maybe we wouldn't have gotten BP

Preseason lots bad play from 9ers just didn't look ready to play. Trey stood out so did many others.

Very fair. JK hope you also compare Lance with Darnold & Allen with the All-22 footage. Also, the Niners broadcast didn't zoom in as much. The raiders broadcast was full of camera & director mistakes.

i don't know how many times that shanahan and lynch have to repeat who the starter is before content creators get it through their heads

He was never good enough, ever! Weak Kyle and John Lynch, they let the media make their picks

OMG this team! The team I have been a fan of for 40 years ! This coaches play calling puts their QBs in persistent injuring situations ! Seriously ? Get rid of a QB now ? This guy needs 5 QBs to successfully get through the playoffs !

The Trey Lance we saw Sunday is not an NFL quarterback. Not even close.

Great video analysis. More 49er videos coverage pls.

He can’t succeed in a very QB friendly offense. Where else can he?

Giving up 3 first round picks for Lance will go down as one of the worst trades in NFL history. One of those picks the Niners traded away the Cowboys used to pick Micha Parsons.

He’d still be on the team if Kyle didn’t run him into the dirt

be careful if ur critical of Lance some niner fans will call you racist

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The NFL is not Pop Warner. Why should I hang on to a guy I thought was going to be my number 1 inside two seasons then I find out he needs three years to be developed? This is especially true when I got another guy who surprisingly is ready to go right now. Was it a fluke? Yeah but some flukes are good and some are bad. It is what it is.

Remember the play Aiyuk dropped in the endzone after a Purdy scramble?

Lance will be a Viking next year

Watching this and comparing to the Niner offense now. The offense was extremely basic when Trey played. It’s clear Brock can handle about 10 times the complexity that Trey could handle. And Shanahan trusts Brock with the entire offensive playbook which is important, and Brock has proven himself worthy of that trust. Trey just couldn’t get it done.

I want to start by saying it wasn’t a good day for Lance. I also think the O Line was a problem. I don’t understand the play call on the TD that was nearly a pick. Just watching this game you can tell Lance struggle scrambling or bootlegging to the left. There are like 3-4 plays it happens. He needs to readjust his footing, otherwise he won’t get enough velocity to throw it between two defenders. A bootleg to that side and his first read in the middle of the field? You’d think they would have better packages in the red zone.

I’m a niner fan, and I will give my hot take: Lance drafted higher because of racial quotas(BLM); he wasn’t good enough to be a 3rd pick at all, no matter the college video footage, and it showed the minute he stepped into a game and all the sports analists were like “what was that? Wasn’t he the 3rd pick overall??”. He got really unlucky with the injury, but still when he suited up he showed he was too green to be the”franchise QB” of a team that is known for having competent if not HOF quarterbacks all the time. I hope he can have a decent career after all and a reasonable reboot in Dallas; but he was a bad choice and Shanahan once again displayed his tone deaf attitude and went for the numbers rather than paying attention to the player context

You gotta get the All 22 film. Some of those checkdowns were not good. He had guys open downfield but for whatever reason he didn't want to throw.

As a 49er fan, I want Lance to be good. I’m more for Purdy to start cuz Lance isn’t showing the talent to be that guy. Anybody making excuses for Lance is just a blind fan. Clearly he’s not 3 1st round picks worth given what he’s shown us

Some good? More like no good

Don't need Shanahan to realize Lance isn't NFL material...very similar to Justin Fields. Both will be backups very soon

Are you really saying Brock can't make a 5 yard jump pass? Pop Warner level

Can you tell me who was good in that game on the 9ers. I'll wait.

2:03 thats 1 of the worst things about the nfl. u cant see half of the shit going on most the time.

Trey Lance is overrated AF. He will be end up being the biggest QB bust in recent history next to Johnnie Football. The 9er's front office needs to suck it up and trade this disappointment at their first opportunity. Oh, and though Darnold was better, not impressed with him either. Lots of pressure on our boy Purdy.

I think the difference is purdy played way more football. Lance can be good but he's not ready to lead a Superbowl roster. The part that sucks is he actually needs the playing time

people gotta stop comparing him to brock. If anything thing it's Darnold. Darnold looks WAY better than trey. The question is can Trey do what Darnold do?

You comparing how trey plays with a bunch of backups and players that won't be on the team at the start of the season

Yeah Lance didn't do great but I still wanna see Purdy in action for a drive or two in the preseason. It's an awfully big assumption that he's gonna be the same. People just assume he's not going to pull a Tua from the Dolphins. He has not been very good in training camp and has thrown a bunch of picks. Yeah, I get that Niners QB's don't tend to do the greatest in training compared to game time and he has been going against the starting defense, but still, people are counting their chickens before they hatch. Can we wait a couple more games before we label him "the real deal"?

Say what you want but that cross body jump pass is something only a finger full of guys will make....

aidan o’connell analysis!!🔥

Trey was much better than he was 2 years ago, had a decent 2nd quarter, but not nearly as crisp as Sam. Darnold was more composed, had better feet , was more accurate and just less helter skelter. We'll see what happens when Sam gets more snaps.

One bad weather regular season game and one pre season game with backups and you saying he's not good...stop it

Slow of mind, slow of foot, slow of release, slow to put points on the board, slow to start the game, slow to start the season, dude needs to go to the Canadian football league for a couple years to learn how to play.

lance is not a pocker passer have him roll out left or right on every down spread the offense

Had to come back to this video... And hey Bro, you watch today's game??

How you gonna try and break down film when you can’t see those 5th and 6th string wrs not getting open?

3:27 tell me you haven’t watched Brock Purdy play without telling me you haven’t watched Brock Purdy play. He did this shit all the time last year. The only thing you said about Lance positively was a lie. Good stuff bro.

Trey competition with Darnold he has to put in work to catchup.

“I don’t know if Purdy can make that play but lance can” Did you even watch Purdy last season. Unsubscribe

Not saying it's worth doing a video on it but the Giants UDFA Tommy DeVito easily outplayed career backup Nate Sudfeld in the Lions game even with inferior talent around him - especially the offensive line. Tyrod Taylor has been incredibly unreliable as the backup for the Giants and his very short series against the Lions Monday was the first time as a Giant one of his drives didn't end with a turnover or being injured - he was 3/4 for 7 yards. I'm not trying to pump up DeVito as this year's Brock Purdy but there is a good chance he gets snaps as a backup or even as a starter this season if Daniel Jones goes down so that's something you may want to keep an eye on.

Brock Purdy Beat the "best" Defense, in the PLAYOFFS its his job and not up 4 debate with me. 3rd stringer Trey. Ladies and Gentleman, my client, Brock.......Purdy fym!!!!

Clearly outplayed by a 4th round rookie trying to grasp a system more complex than Shanahan's (Mcdaniels'). He's not a NFL QB.

You need the All-22

Jimmy has made the play at 3:26 twice against Arizona. One in 2019 to end the game on 3rd down and one in 2022 Mexico to score a TD to Kittle. It's not amazing. I'm sure Brock makes those easy.

BUST

Can’t wait to see purdy struggle this year lol

Aaaand Trey got traded to Dallas yesterday. End of discussion

Tons of people were harsh on him yesterday including me as well. I take back what I said. The o-line plays were awful given that those were backups who might not even see the field this season. To be fair, Purdy did indeed play with the likes of Kittle, Aiyuk, Deebo, Jauan Jennings, and CMC. None of them were on the field to accommodate Lance. If they were on the field and Lance still couldn't deliver to them, then yeah we have a huge concern that must be addressed relating to Lance.

In regards to the TD: If you listen to the presser after the game, Shanahan says he likes that Lance tried to rip the pass in there. So whether that was the right decision or not, Shanahan seems to like the aggression.

Can you make a video on Aiden O’Connell

3:30 IMO if Kyle wanted someone who could do what you stated Fields still would’ve been a safer pick

He's still raw and not very accurate, but damn look at how he whips that ball!

Brock, #1, Tom #2... Trey, down the road.

Lance is a poor man's Kaepernick... Get him gone

He doesn’t look confident and he is holding on to the ball for too long

If Dwelley doesn't stumble on that first play, its probably a 1st down. If Dwelley doesn't miss his assignment on a subsequent play, Trey wouldn't have a free runner in his face. I'm not excusing Trey's poor performance. . . but Dwelley looked very much like a washed up TE that shouldn't be on the team.

So if Trey balls out next preseason game then what?? Any excuses like “ ohhh nooo it doesn’t count” or will people give Trey some kinda props? To any football fan preseason is NEEDED Brady, Steve Young, Burrow, Mahomes alll needed preseason so why is Brock not allowed to play? With what so far 10 picks in training camp and including joint practices ( 4 picks from the same team Trey played against) wouldn’t you or a head coach be worried of the hits Brock is gonna take? Or how his arm or body would react to those hits? Game speed timing or how about working on those picks or not being in position for dropped picks to happen? Dink n dunk ain’t go solve that problem and Pittsburgh WILL be COMING? So we go have to be patient and seee all this shit in week1 right?? Disaster waiting to happen but HEY KS is the QB guru👀🤮

This aged like milk

Trey Lance inst good enough for the NFL

Trey Lance was running for his life and the plays that were called were not quick hitters. He's going to fail in these circumstances, where were the #1 O-lineman? All this aside in the 2022 season the needed 4 QB's, this year Trey Lance will be one of those.

To be fair lance hasn’t been competing vs purdy for the starting job in camp he’s been getting mostly 2nd 3rd string reps the only time he gets to practice with the 1st team is when purdy doesn’t practice & he actually does pretty good can’t really know I him that hard when he only got like 8 total 11 on 11 reps during the joint practice va raiders & wasn’t even with the 1st teams smh it’s like the niners aren’t trying to give him a fair shot & this is coming from a sf fan

What should happen is hope he has a good game next week and then TRADE HIS ASS to some team with an injured QB that's desperate or else we won't get a thing for him. It's his THIRD YEAR in the SAME system and the SAME coach so there is no reason he should look this lost on the field. Do NOT let him trick you into thinking he just might be good enough to keep. If we can't get $5 and a bowl of soup for him, then keep him as insurance and let him ride pine.

First, we DO know who the starter is, it is Purdy, that’s exactly why Lance is starting this game instead of Purdy, Shanahan is trying to determine back up spot between Lance and Darnold, and this game showed it most likely will be Darnold. Can Lance make some plays? Of course, he is a football quarterback, but as you say yourself, how can anyone believe this is a good performance by Lance. As far as the play Lance makes that you think Purdy wouldn’t, did you watch the 49ers last season? Purdy , makes those plays, and he has the accuracy as well. I think Lance has two more pre seasons games to make his case, but so far, it doesn’t look encouraging.