It wasn’t news that the 49ers beat the Giants Sunday. It would have been news if they lost. But this played out exactly to script.
Only three games into the season, it is pretty clear who the Giants are – a poor team with problems. They committed bonehead penalties, blew pass coverages, and when things went south in the second half, showed quite a bit of quit.
Good teams, which the 49ers are trying to prove they are, take down teams like that and sit on them for 60 minutes. And they did.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t even bother with the old on-any-given-Sunday routine.