Well, Bosa was right when he gave the thumbs down on his injury status walking to the tent. He is out for the year with a torn ACL.
Mac Jones gutted out a reoccurring knee injury and led the Niners to the game-winning FG as time ran out.
He’s day-to-day.
Purdy is day-to-day with his toe.
Mykel Williams is day-to-day with a wrist injury.
Renardo Green is day-to-day with a neck injury.
CJ West had surgery for a broken thumb, but he can possible play this weekend with a cast.
Jennings is day-to-day with a his ankle and shoulder injury that kept him out of this last game.
Kittle has one more game to hopefully come off the IR for his hammy.
BA? Who knows?
Purdy may be ready to come back for the Rams game on fucking Thursday night Jacksonville game next Sunday. Right. Thank God we have a short week to deal with all these injuries. Fuck. At least we are at home.
The good news is, we’ve won more division games in 3 weeks than we did all last year. The bad news is of course injuries. After the offense has been waylaid, the D suffers a huge blow with Bosa.
Next man up and all that shit, but really, Huff and Okuayinonu (and Saleh) have to scheme our way to get pressure on opposing QBs. Especially Matthew Stafford. next guy up for the Ram game.
As far as the game went, the run D is forming up pretty well. Upton Stout had a game saving breakup of a pass. The D played OK and got the laate stops that they had to to give the offense the chance for the game-winning FG. AZ helped with some crucial drops, but we aren’t getting to the QB enough and that’s is not gonna be helped by Bosa’s absence.
The run D is also gonna have to be big in this game. Travis Etienne is averaging 90 ypg, and their O is averaging 141 per game (5th in the league) so they have to be stout against the run to take this one.
Saleh has his work cut out for him with pressure, and at least Stafford is not very mobile Trevor Lawrence has only been sacked 3 times, but his numbers pretty much suck. 4 picks and 4 TDs and a woeful 55.3% completion percentage good enough for 33rd in the league. The hope is Saleh decides to bring the pressure with blitzes, stunts, and whatever else we can come up with to force more mistakes.
And, as much shit as I give Shanahan for his play calling, he finally ran play action inside the 10. I’ve only been saying that for 5 years now, He royally fucked up the previous drive by not being able to punch it in from 2nd and goal in the 1, but the TD drive and subsequent drive to win the game was solid and he worked the clock very effectively. So, yeah you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Forty Niners Forever 
This post is purely about the business aspects of a team.
Because DE elite pass rushers are now in the $40 mil dollar range there’s a real argument to be made not to go that route as it eats up almost as much as top QB money from the cap. Bosa was in line for that kind of new contract if he had a dominant season.
If almost $100 mil is used up by just 2 players, the team inevitably doesn’t have enough money to go around.
Throw in a LT and a number 1 WR that’s another $60 mil plus on just 4 players.
QB is the one spot that there is no real option but to pay, the Bills are mid pack without their QB for instance.
All of the other positions are choices, pay top dollar for a top 5 player or considerably less for a top 10 player which leaves money to upgrade around them.
The league is at this juncture now and the Niners will get a chance to see if they can stay effective without a top 5 player at DE.
If they can, they may well choose to trade Bosa rather than re-up his contract.
I would not trade for a name DE right now, let the season play out and see if the 9ers are real contenders by the trade deadline Nov 4th. If they believe they have a real shot at that point then go all in.
Finding good guys on bad teams is also a common sense approach.
Dolphins gifted perfect opportunity after Nick Bosa’s season-ending injury https://share.google/v92yZj3f8KPpoAvpo
Yeah, I’m pretty torn on the issue of what to do at this point.
I think we have the players now, unless we can get a guy:
a) on the cheap, or
b) controllable for a few years
We will have to wait and see on Bosa so that’s gonna be a way later decision. A trade for Hendrickson would be costly and unless we throw the bank truck at him would be a rental.
He’s the same age as Bosa but has only missed 3 games in his career as opposed to Bosa who has missed around 30.
I think they roll with what they have. I can’t see trading anyone at this point, but you never know.
New thread s up.