3 things we learned in week 3: the 49ers have a kicking in which they can trust

The enjoyment of the 3-0 San Francisco 49ers lasted less than 24 hours. The approach quickly changed the 16-15 victory over the Arizona cardinals to Nick Bosa’s knee.

But it should not be lost that the 49ers now have 3-0 in the games that would definitely have lost last season. The tides are changing. The vibrations are good. And despite the lesions, the 49ers have shown that they can be a team that wins the games ugly, and can win closed games.

The 49ers only won a division game and two games of a possession in 2024. They have already won two NFC West clashes, and on Sunday he marked his third victory of a 2025 possession, despite the injuries.

And although the 49ers will have to learn about life after Bosa in 2025, here are the three things we learned from victory over Arizona:

The injuries could have become too much

The 49ers entered the 2025 season without Brandon Aiyuk, Malik Mustapha and Kevin Givens. Then they lost Brock Purdy and George Kittle for a few weeks after week 1. We were not kind to Bartch and Jauan Jennings either.

But week 3 had the most significant blow of all. Nick Bosa fell with an early knee injury in Sunday’s victory, and Monday’s news were the worst case: a torn acl, ending the season of the pass corridor.

At least with Aiyuk, Kittle, Purdy or Jennings, we can expect them to take the field for the 49ers in 2025, but Bosa will be missed. Especially taking into account how rebuilt the defense is. Mykel Williams was taken with the idea of ​​how to combine it with Bosa, not for him to be an individual entity. The same with Bryce Huff’s trade. Alfred Collins and CJ West were selected to be part of a defensive line headed by Bosa.

And with a play, Bosa is gone.

Now, perhaps a slight silver lining in everything is that the defense played well and maintained the Arizona offensive 13 points after the departure of Bosa. But there is no bosa replace, especially during the time that the 49ers will be without it. As the Golden State Warriors became famous, it will be a “strength in the numbers” for the 49ers pass from here.

No runner has been a thorn in the 49ers team rather than James Conner since the corridor joined the cardinals in 2021. He hastened for at least 80 yards in three of his six games against the 49ers, with at least one touchdown in four of those six games.

Before leaving Sunday’s contest with a brutal leg injury, the defense of the 49ers kept him in nine haules for 22 yards. Trey Benson was not much better in relief, with San Francisco holding it in 42 yards in 10 attempts. If Benson 29 yardas’s atypical race is eliminated, his day would have been nine races for 13 yards.

But perhaps the most important thing is how well the 49ers handled Kyler Murray’s legs. While he had some positive yards struggles from the beginning, San Francisco’s defense did not let his ability to run them, keeping the mobile field to 37 yards in six attempts. They dared Murray to hit them with his arm, and with the help of some drops of Marvin Harrison, the cardinal offensive showed that they were not up to the task.

A season eliminated from allowing 124 yards per game per game, the 49ers have allowed 103 per game in three games this season. But Murray’s legs as they did on Sunday shows that they are very on the right path.

The 49ers have a kicking in which you can trust

After Eddy Pineiro nailed his kick of 51 yards to finish the first half, making the kick of 35 yards to win the game almost felt like a formality. That feeling was not there when the 49ers would align for a field goal only three weeks ago.

Pineiro has begun his 49ers race a perfect five per five in kicks with his length at 51 yards. The last time Jake Moody made at least five kicks in a row was when he made six from weeks 4 to 10 last season (he lost three games with an ankle injury), and even those kicks were not convincing. After that section of six kicks, Moody made 11 of his next 22 with a length of 53, is no more than four kicks in a row.

The story shows that Pineiro will not have that fall, considering that he is one of the first three of all times by percentage of field goals (minimum 100 attempts). Moody lost something that the 49ers had with people like Robbie Gould, Joe Nedney and Phil Dawson, and that was the confidence that a kicking would come out and kick.

Everything that was needed was a movement of the list, and the group of special teams already feels better. Don’t just ask Skyy Moore asking for a fair capture in the six -yard line.