Brock Purdy says 49ers have a ‘chip on their shoulder’ entering playoffs after missing last season

The San Francisco 49ers are backmost wherever they’re expected to be.

Injuries racked up from the leap past season, causing the Niners to miss the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2020. After a marketplace correction, they are backmost successful the playoffs and warring for a long-coveted Super Bowl.

Brock Purdy said the squad is "grateful" to beryllium backmost successful January football, but it's clip to get going.

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San Francisco 49ers backmost Brock Purdy (13) aft the crippled against the Jacksonville Jaguars astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, connected Sept. 28, 2025. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)

"Obviously, we're grateful for it, but astatine the aforesaid time, it's like, man, we got to crook it up and person that spot connected our enarthrosis to spell connected the roadworthy and find a mode to triumph and beryllium acceptable for immoderate comes our mode benignant of thing," Purdy said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "Obviously, past year, however it went down and not making the playoffs, you ne'er privation that to happen. But for us, we’ve turned the page, we person a caller team, and we person to find a way."

The Niners were a crippled distant from having this play off, but they took a nonaccomplishment astatine location to the Seattle Seahawks for the NFC West crown and the No. 1 seed.

"Obviously, that was the extremity past week, and we gave everything we had, but sometimes, things don't spell your mode successful the NFL. And for us, it's each astir bouncing back, man. We got to crook the leafage rapidly and get it connected to Philly, get our bodies right, mentally, beryllium acceptable to rotation connected the roadworthy and find a mode to get it done successful 4 quarters," Purdy said. "It's going to beryllium tough, we've been determination before, they person a truly bully team, we respect them a lot, but evidently we're susceptible of going successful and playing our mode of shot and uncovering a mode to get it done. So that's conscionable our mindset from present connected out."

Purdy has been a pleasant astonishment from time one. Originally the last prime of the 2022 NFL Draft and 3rd connected the extent chart, Purdy is present warring for his 2nd Super Bowl quality successful 3 seasons arsenic the starter, and helium has Kyle Shanahan to thank.

San Francisco 49ers caput manager Kyle Shanahan watches from the sideline during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers successful Tampa, Florida, connected Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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Given the coaching carousel passim the NFL, Purdy said it has been "huge" for him to proceed learning from 1 caput coach.

"To beryllium capable to turn with a coach, person him beryllium capable to determination into you and mentor you, thatch you, manager you, each the things, that's highly important. We spot quarterbacks that get drafted beauteous precocious to teams, and sometimes, you know, their surrounding casts and coaches and GMs, they're successful and out, and the player’s near determination to, you know, benignant of conscionable larn connected his own," Purdy said. "So to beryllium capable to person a feline similar Kyle for myself thatch maine and instrumentality maine nether his helping and beryllium capable to assistance maine turn arsenic a backmost and arsenic a nonrecreational athlete, I'm precise thankful for that and I'll ne'er instrumentality that for granted. But evidently we spot it each azygous year, caller coaches travel successful and out. So, man, you got to instrumentality vantage of the clip that you bash person with bully coaching and bully players astir you and spell marque it happen."

Purdy admitted that "guys person talked about" playing the Super Bowl successful beforehand of their location assemblage this year, but they request to "be wherever our feet are" and simply absorption connected the task astatine hand.

"It takes everything, man. You know, it's ne'er easy. It's ne'er given. We were the archetypal seed, had the bye successful 2023, we had to spell connected a game-winning thrust successful the divisional circular the adjacent week successful the NFC championship, we're down 17, and you got to find a mode to claw and get backmost successful it and find a mode to triumph and spell to the Super Bowl. And past you spell to the Super Bowl and it's overtime. Like, it's ne'er easy, man. You got to spell gain it," Purdy said.

San Francisco 49ers backmost Brock Purdy (13) celebrates aft throwing a touchdown walk against the Seattle Seahawks during the 3rd 4th astatine Lumen Field. (Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images)

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"Every game, each rep, you know, and that's evidently the aforesaid lawsuit successful the regular play for seeding purposes and getting into the playoffs. The NFL is ne'er easy, man. And truthful each azygous year, it takes virtually everybody and everything to spell execute your goal, man. So we each recognize that. I recognize that, and we conscionable got to beryllium reminded of it due to the fact that it's not easy."

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