And yet the 49ers can consider themselves lucky compared to their rivals. Seattle will be playing its third game in 11 days on Thursday, having played on Monday Night Football in Detroit on Sept. 30, this past Sunday (a loss to the Giants) in Week 5, and now a Thursday nighter.

Brock Purdy has changed. When he first became the 49ers starting quarterback, he was a game manager. A ball distrubtor. He took what the defense gave him and checked the ball down when no one was open downfield.