SANTA CLARA — Nick Bosa wished to maintain his twenty seventh birthday hush-hush, so fairly than open items or eat cake in entrance of reporters, he spoke on his and the 49ers’ total well being.
Bosa appeared on the harm report for the primary time this season with a left elbow harm. It restricted him in follow Wednesday, though he shed the compression sleeve that coated his elbow earlier within the day in addition to after Sunday’s 28-18 loss to Kansas Metropolis.
Bosa seems sure to play Sunday when the 49ers (3-4) host the Dallas Cowboys (3-3).
“It’s been a little sore but I bumped it a couple times last game. But I’m fine,” mentioned Bosa, tracing the harm again to the 49ers’ Week 2 loss at Minnesota.
Bosa has 3 1/2 sacks this season, splitting a sack Sunday when the 49ers failed handy Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs their first defeat.
Just like the Chiefs, the Cowboys are coming off their bye week, and Bosa famous that gamers sometimes have “more juice” after every week off. Dallas is 3-0 on the street, and 0-3 at house, together with a 47-9 loss final recreation to the Detroit Lions.
“We’re in similar spots: two teams that need to right the ship and get on a better trajectory,” Bosa mentioned. “For them, they’re coming off the bye; we’re heading into it after this.
“They want to get going and start the second half of their season the right way, and we want to go into the bye feeling good about where we’re at.”
The Cowboys have misplaced to the 49ers every of the previous three seasons: within the 2021 and ’22 playoffs, then 42-10 final Oct. 8 at Levi’s Stadium.
“It’s been good for us. We’ve won all of them,” mentioned Bosa.
Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott final loved a win over the 49ers in 2017, when the Cowboys got here off their bye and gained 40-10 at Levi’s Stadium as he threw for 234 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions.
“It’s going to be a tough one, for sure. They’re going to throw everything they can at us,” Bosa mentioned. “I think they’re going to try to run the ball more than they have, because when you’ve had the losses they’ve had, they’re obviously going to try and do something a little different.
“Yeah, it’s going to be a big game.”
Initially Printed: October 23, 2024 at 2:47 p.m.
