A lot of teams are injured, but no one is injured to the extent that the 49ers are injured. The entire starting defensive line missed practice on Wednesday.
Today wasn’t much better. That’s in addition to Jimmie Ward playing two snaps this year, Azeez Al-Shaair missing half the season with a knee injury, and Emmanuel Moseley’s ACL. On today’s Gold Standard podcast, we wondered how many points the Niners would have to score per game in order to win while so many defensive pieces were on the shelf.
So far this year, the defense has clearly carried the offense.