Niners RB Bush doubtful versus Cardinals

“There’s nothing anyone in that locker room could have done to change that game the way I played today”, Kaepernick said, via Cam Inman of the San Jose Mercury News.

As Arians told me past year, “Every day is a blast”. Those kind of tweaks and aches are going to come.

The Cards’ quarterback had plenty of time back there in the pocket, waiting for his receivers to get open downfield.

It had been 47-7, a dismantling of an NFC West rival, and Calais Campbell was happy.

“I think the world of that guy”, Tomsula said. “We should be able to throw and you just can’t commit turnovers”.

The offense, as good as they’ve been and quarterback Carson Palmer’s nine touchdowns against just two interceptions so far, can still improve.

Arizona might be the best team in the NFC, but the Green Bay Packers might have something to say about that. But they’d also be the first team to get to him this season.

“I don’t like making excuses”, he said. “I know it wasn’t ideal, wasn’t pretty”. Once we put those helmets on and go out there, it’s no excuses. “You have to be ready to play”.

Kaepernick scored the 49ers’ only touchdown, on a 12-yard, read-option run to cut the deficit to 28-7.

At the top of the priority list for today’s game for the 49ers will be to sort out their defense, which was cruelly exposed by the Steelers last week, and find their feet again in their running game. “I know what this team is capable of doing”.

Pinned inside his own half, Hayne chose not to catch a punt, hoping it would bounce into the endzone.

The 49ers insistence on keeping DeAndrew White in at kick returner continues to prove a questionable call.

“Their passing game has just simplified so much, it was easy for us to anticipate routes, get some good breaks on the ball today”, Mathieu said. The 49ers defense still looks to be adjusting after losing several key players in the off-season and I look for Palmer to take advantage.

-LG Mike Iupati desperately wanted to play Sunday against his former team, but said his surgically-repaired left knee needed at least one more week to fully heal and get stronger.

Mathieu returned his first interception for a touchdown, and that came only 2:03 after teammate Justin Bethel also scored off an interception, igniting a 14-0 Cardinals lead and the 49ers’ second-straight blowout loss on the road.

First-round draft pick Arik Armstead notched his first career sack, and it was the first allowed this season by the Cardinals. Johnson, signed in August, ran for 110 yards on 22 carries.

The Arizona Cardinals (2-0) defeated the Chicago Bears, 48-23, in Week 2.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Kaepernick is the first 49ers quarterback with two pick-sixes in a game since Steve DeBerg in Week 5 of the 1980 season (against the Rams).

–Cornerback Shareece Wright was inactive for the third consecutive game this season. He promptly deleted that tweet. It had nothing to do with anything. “We’ve got to play better everything”.

The Arizona Cardinals won all six games that Palmer started and Super Bowl aspirations were dampened the moment Palmer’s ACL tore.

Even so, Arizona has injury issues including running back Andre Ellington.