Kyle Shanahan couldn’t avoid addressing what happened with Brock Purdy in a game the 49ers won, but one in which their quarterback threw three painful interceptions, mistakes that, fortunately for San Francisco, didn’t turn into opposing touchdowns. Despite the rough sequence, the head coach insisted they were still the right reads.

“He just had three throws he’d love to take back. They were all three good decisions,” Shanahan said after the game, attempting to explain Purdy’s disastrous first half. “He was just a hair late on them and when you’re a hair late on stuff you can’t throw it behind them. He threw it behind them and all three guys made him pay.”

Those three interceptions will go down as one of Purdy’s worst stretches, though it wasn’t the game with the most turnovers in his ca

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