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Young Brock Purdy made Tom Brady look like an old man in a battle for the real Mr. Irrelevant.

Brock Purdy vs. Tom Brady got so out of hand that FOX pivoted off its NFC Game of the Week in most regions of the country.

It came as quite the shock how badly Mr. Irrelevant’s San Francisco 49ers destroyed The GOAT’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon. There are bad games that Brady has played, and then there was this 2015 Peyton Manning noodle-armed nonsense we were subjected to on FOX. Purdy obliterating Brady in his first career start is arguably the most shocking game of the season.

Will the real Mr. Irrelevant please stand up, please stand up?

No Country for Old Men: Brock Purdy turns Tom Brady into Mr. Irrelevant

Purdy may have been the last pick in the 2022 NFL Draft out of Iowa State, but anybody who watched Cyclones football over the last four years can tell you first-hand how special he was. It may have been a COVID season, but the Cyclones went to the Big 12 Championship Game, nearly beat Oklahoma in Arlington and went on to defeat Pac-12 champion Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.

Much of Iowa State’s success was attributed to head coach Matt Campbell and superstar running back Breece Hall, now of the New York Jets. However, Purdy was doing things for the Clones that we never saw Sage Rosenfels or Seneca Wallace do. He was blessed to go to the absolute perfect situation for him in San Francisco. The 49ers have a franchise quarterback of the future in Purdy.

Look. It does not matter if you wasted so many picks to trade up to get Trey Lance, Purdy is your guy now, so just accept it. You are going to get a less reckless version of Jimmy Garoppolo here, which sounds exactly like the guy you should have taken at No. 3 two years ago in Mac Jones! The universe has a funny way of working itself out. He is the Kirk Cousins to Robert Griffin III for y’all.

As for Brady, this is it. He may want to play another season maybe, but the living legend is cooked. If not for the NFC South being little more than festering garbage, the Buccaneers would already be out of playoff contention. What we saw in Santa Clara is what a team that can win the NFC looks like and what a team that won the NFC two years ago looks like. What produce has expired here?

Ultimately, this development right here is why the NFL is the most popular sports league in the United States. Unlike Purdy, half of the league was undrafted. No league offers greater parity and no league does a better job of breeding hope across all 32 fanbases quite like the NFL. Instead of putting in a waiver claim on Baker Mayfield, the 49ers appear to have struck gold on Mr. Irrelevant.

Do not be shocked if Purdy’s 49ers play the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2022 NFC Championship.