WEBVTT - George Kittle: ‘Brock Purdy is Playing at Such a High Level Right Now’ | Press Pass 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.280 Three touchdown game. Thank you the last kep that was here. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.120 But what's what's your chemistry developed with Rock for you 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.520 to get a three touchdown? You know, just being able 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.920 to practice with him and Brock his consistency is what's 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.000 really helpful. Also being able to see vernon pregame. I 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.320 think he told me to score three to tie his records. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:23.800 I was like, a fine, Vern, I'll do it. I'll 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.760 tell Parrak. But no, just he's Brocks just so consistent 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.560 every single day. He's the same guy he's on Wednesday 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.960 as he is on Sunday. He's super detailed, he's super confident. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.000 It's everything you want in a quarterback. And he's just 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.360 playing at such a high level right now. And I 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.080 think really the best thing he does, you guys see it, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.839 he's just his ability to move in the pocket and 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.080 keep his eyes up and see things develop. And so 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.720 if you don't doesn't if he doesn't hit you like 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.800 you know where he's supposed to, he sees the second window. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.839 He's just very very good at that. Well, let me 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.040 ask you, yes, when was your last three touchdown game? 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:59.360 That was my first one? Yeah? I think so? Oh yeah, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.360 I mean I a hell of a seventh grade running back. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.760 I'll tell you that much. Yeah, running back in defensive end. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.560 I had a lot of sacks as well. But uh yeah, 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.600 I know it's been a minute, but it's always fun. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.200 You mentioned keeping his eyes on the downfield on your 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.920 third touchdown, he's kind of rolling left a little bit. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.000 Is Is it like you made like a second move 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.200 on that. No, I mean that was a play design. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.320 I think Christian just did a really good job. The 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.319 dion got a little bit upfield and he just like 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.080 I said, Brock's pocket awareness and being able to move 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.160 and like keep his feet in position so he can 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.360 make all those throws. He's like he's a robot man. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.280 He's just very special that he could tell like that 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.280 Rock was kind of on today? Could you tell that? 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.880 I think Brock's always on, Like I said, when you 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.120 see him on Wednesday, he's on. You know, it's the 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.839 first day we get like one hundred first and second 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.600 round passes and fifty runs, and he knows all of 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.440 the cans, he knows how to change the play, he 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.760 does everything. So he's just so prepared every single day. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:57.800 Is that kind of more sunny because he's so you know, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.160 career wise, you know, uh, yes and no. I always 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.280 say that one of the things about Brock that allows 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.840 him to be a really good quarterback is he played 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.320 for four years at Iowa State, so like he played 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.360 a lot of you know, he's played a ton of 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.720 snaps and he's just been able to play and he's 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.560 had he's had the highest of highs, he had the 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.400 lowest of lows. He's had to come back, he's had 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.119 to you know, play through tough seasons and just when 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:19.919 you experience, you know, all the highs and lows in 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.239 college and when you get to the NFL, you're just 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.760 kind of prepared for it. And I'm not trying to 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.560 compare college in the NFL, but it's he's just had so 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.160 many reps that he's it's allowing him to play like 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.639 a vet. Was played so well in his college career 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.040 he ended up being the last picking an a Hill draft. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.000 He still can't figure that out. Uh, you know, they'll 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.800 probably say something about his size and his hands are 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.399 too small to hold the football. When you're jewand dress 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.880 at each of your touchdowns, it seems like rought through 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.440 it with a different pace, you know, like on the line, Yeah, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.360 you know, do you see that every day in practice 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.680 or yeah, I mean he throws some ridiculous footballs in 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.920 practice and like you, I mean, I know everyone likes 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.040 a tweet during training camp about interceptions and stuff like that, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:02:59.480 but that's just him getting ready for the season. He's 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.680 going against, you know, in my opinion, the best defense 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.080 in the NFL and we honestly, the best thing about 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.200 training camp for us was really that Nick Bosa didn't play, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.320 and so we were able to actually have an offense 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.680 and he didn't have to disrupt every single play if 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.560 he wasn't going against Trent Wiams, noth against our tackles. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.480 That's just how good Nick Bosa is, and so we 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.919 were actually able to you know, have fun drives. He 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.000 was able to look downfield and just get used to 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.919 it and build chemistry with all of our skilled players 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.920 and that that's really what it is with team that's 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.919 won a lot of games and convincing batch. But in 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.960 terms of a total team performance tonight, where would this 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.760 rank and turn? I mean, I think that's one of 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.120 our best team performances. You know, on Sunday night football, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.560 it's my favorite night to play because everybody's watching there's 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.960 a ton of football just played, and everybody's sitting at 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.880 home with their friends and family either celebrating or you know, morning, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.240 but they're still watching that game. And for us to 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.320 go out like that, and I mean, you talk about 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.200 our defense, Fred Warner played a hell of a game 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.080 to night, you know, interception, force, fumble, bunch of tackles. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.440 Our whole d line was fantastic. And then you look 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.840 at our special teams, which Snowski just can't not plant 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 it great. He's been fantastic. All those all those punts 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.880 inside the ten, inside the five. It's really difficult as 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.440 an offense to do that, especially when you're coming out 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.360 of the end zone. Our crowd's really loud. George Odom's fantastic. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.040 You know, he had all those tackles on special teams. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.160 He really sets a tone, gets the crowd going. And 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.560 then every time you put the ball in one of 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.640 our skill position's hands, uh, they have an opportunity to 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.720 score a touchdown. So we have a really good team. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.400 We're healthy, and we're clicking right now. You've been waiting 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.800 for that flicker. We've had that installed since like last year, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.440 like I want to say, like weeks seven, or eight 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.560 and it's just always up. I'm like, dude, can we 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.680 call it? And we called it last year in the 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.040 NFCY Championship game with Christian didn't throw it because I 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.920 think I was just like quadruple covered. Didn't really have 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.240 much of a threat of throwing last year. But it 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.919 was fun. I actually saw sit on my couch and 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.680 I saw Laporta scored on it with the Lions, and 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.159 I was like, sent to my tight end coach. I 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.599 was like, dude, they ran our play, how'd they know? 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.719 He was like, don't worry, We're gonna run it better, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.520 and yeah, it's ten yards farther out, so I guess 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.119 that counts. But I'm never upset when two Iowa Titans 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.440 are scoring on the same play. When you hear it 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.159 one hundred percent touchdown and then you know the best 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.360 part about that was it's usually like on the dummy, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.280 which means that broxing it up there, you know, why day, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.400 Why Day, said Hut Hut, And like, pretend that we're 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.120 going to change it to a new play, and the 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.840 play clock was running down, so we just went on 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.360 one instead, and a right Colton thought it was still 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.479 on the dummy. So he doesn't even move. So I 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.839 had to stay in a little bit longer to not 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.599 let the defensive end just blow up the whole play. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.599 So at first I was like, Oh, this is gonna 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.360 be not great because the corner was just sitting out 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.320 there with the safety. And then turns out he tried 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.719 to cover Christian. I was able to run down the sideline. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.680 Uh twice. Uh we I mean I think we ran 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.320 it on Wednesday and a walk through. We ran it 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.840 on Friday and the walk through, and then we ran 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.960 again on Saturday and the walk through. So whenever you 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.200 get something ran three times, that means you're probably gonna 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.280 run in the game. In my last year against the Cowboys, 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.160 you had a big game. You're obviously pretty featured part 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.400 of the passing game plan. Did you sense that that 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.520 today you'd be heavily featured again? Yeah? So no. I 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.200 mean I would say like last week versus Cardinals, I 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:52.560 thought I was gonna have one hundred and fifty yards 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.960 and three touchdowns and you just, you know, just not 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.600 the way that the game went. And you know, Kyle 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.359 calls you know, whatever's hot. That's how he feels and 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.920 that's why he's such a talented play caller. I knew 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.840 I had some activity in the red zone this week 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.680 which was really fun. And you can see like the 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.119 first play was a you know, one of our favorite 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.320 red zone plays called it, you know, go up seven zero, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.720 and then we had that trick play and then the 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.320 last one too. We actually just took it from New England. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.440 They ran it this past week. I think they ran 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.280 it last or whenever. Yeah, they ran it against them 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.960 and it worked out really well. So it was just, uh, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.839 just fun to be able to get in the end zone. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.039 Did you know you were that much better than them? 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.080 And what did you learn about your team? Meaning so 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.560 decisive aspects? You know, I think Dallas is a fantastic 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.560 football team. They really are. They have athletes all over 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.880 the football field. They can make plays. I mean, they 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.599 were one of their the I think their first touchdown 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.880 that deep shot was a hell of a catch by 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.719 the wide receiver. Wonder foot ball by DK. It's just 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.080 the thing about in our office and defense especially is 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.840 we're just a very violent football team and the hits 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.760 just kind of add up after a while, whether you know, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.680 whoever's you know, dealing with, whether it's Trent Williams on 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.880 a block or Fred and Dre on a pass player. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.159 Our safety is coming down like those things build up 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.240 after a while. And that's how our training camp. That's 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.520 how OT, that kind of how OTA is, that's our 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.960 training camp is Like we're a violent, physical football team 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.560 and that's just the standard of the forty nine ers. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.440 And you know, I still go back last year. My 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.279 Faari statistic ever is every team that played us lost 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.200 the next week. And you know that's our goal is 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.000 you know, you have to get up for us. And 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.240 that's just kind of how we play regardless. And I 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.280 know sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work, but we're 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:17.920 gonna be as violent as can in every single game. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.560 Thank you guys, have wonderful night.