{"id":469961,"date":"2026-09-20T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:00:23","slug":"49ers-news-game-day-niners-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469961\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: Game day\u00a0 | Niners Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I can\u2019t wait to see how Connor Colby and Jake Brendel handle the Miami Dolphins defensive line, how the 49ers secondary takes care of the Dolphins offense, and whether the 49ers throttle up or down. It\u2019s natural to let your guard down, being in their position, so we will learn a lot about this team today. I have high expectations. They earned it with their performance ten days ago. Let\u2019s get this win and let\u2019s get out with minimal injuries. Go Niners!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/49964673\/san-francisco-49ers-melbourne-australia-trip-recovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How the 49ers are readjusting after weeklong Australia trip<\/a><br \/>\u201cPerry, the team\u2019s vice president of player health and performance, and his staff provided players with instructions on how much water to drink on the plane, how long to stay up before falling asleep and when to wake up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Right tackle Colton McKivitz said the objective was to stay up for a couple of hours (an easy enough task with so much adrenaline still pumping from the game), go to sleep in their lie-flat seats, and then wake up for the final few hours of the flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">McKivitz estimated he slept for about seven hours. Running back Christian McCaffrey said he was out for about 13 hours, which was about the same as rookie defensive tackle Gracen Halton. Defensive end Nick Bosa was in the same range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI actually felt it worse on the way back,\u201d Bosa said. \u201cGoing out, you just kind of power through a few hours and then go to bed early and then just stay on a little earlier wake-up is what I did. And then when I came back, it\u2019s been kind of hard to get to bed, but [Tuesday] night I got to bed nice and early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/09\/19\/san-francisco-49ers-injuries-theory-dezhaun-stribling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawakami: Why do the 49ers suffer so many injuries? Here\u2019s my grand unifying theory (paywall)<\/a><br \/>\u201cShanahan and John Lynch seek out players who never want to come off the field, which is good for team spirit and fighting through tougher times but sometimes bad for the health of those players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I don\u2019t think Shanahan and Lynch have ever told an injured player to keep going no matter what. I just believe that they seek out hardy souls who run to contact and don\u2019t want to let down their teammates. Which happen to be character traits of players who will try to ignore more reasonable medical advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Should Stribling have been kept off the field on Thursday after he initially hurt his ankle? Yes. But he wanted to keep going. The 49ers\u2019 doctors allowed it; there\u2019s always risk of worsening an injury and it\u2019s always a judgment call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But if Stribling didn\u2019t want to go back in, he wouldn\u2019t have gone back in. And the 49ers have built this roster \u2014 and won a lot of games \u2014 with players who want to go back in\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u2026.they gather hard-nosed players, they charge through practice, they play games full-tilt, and they believe that tough players sometimes can make it back into the lineup faster than anyone else expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This stuff resonates in an NFL locker room. When you trust the players, the players trust you. Plus, sometimes it really pays off. Why else would the 49ers have brought George Kittle and Nick Bosa with them to Australia and to play in Week 1 after both had only recently returned to practice?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Or how could Shanahan and Lynch know that this group of players would respond well to flying out to Australia a week early, blow out the Rams, and understand what it takes to be ready for the Dolphins on Sunday?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 49ers put a lot of trust in their players. Sometimes they put too much trust in their recovery powers; there are benefits and there are consequences for this. But the 49ers would rather keep that level of faith than players who deserve no faith at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-injuries\/162909\/49ers-are-expected-to-have-eddy-pineiro-for-sunday-2-players-fined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddy Pineiro will kick for 49ers against the Dolphins<\/a><br \/>\u201cAccording to Matt Maiocco, the team did not sign either one, which means they\u2019re confident Eddy Pineiro is no longer sick and will be available for Sunday\u2019s home opener against the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Pineiro didn\u2019t practice all week due to an illness. Head coach Kyle Shanahan said on Friday the team would work out kickers ahead of the game. It was unclear whether that move was preventive. Turns out, that\u2019s exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t wait to see how Connor Colby and Jake Brendel handle the Miami Dolphins defensive line, how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[153373,101,8376,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-469961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-golden-nuggets-san-francisco-49ers-daily-news-roundup","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}