NFC Notes: Nick Bosa, Joshua Dobbs, 49ers, Cardinals, Rams

49ers

49ers DE Nick Bosa feels like his body has โ€œfully adapted to footballโ€ following Week 3โ€™s Thursday Night win over the Giants after missing San Franciscoโ€™s offseason program.

โ€œI think getting through the Thursday for me was big,โ€ Bosa said, via 49ersWebZone. โ€œJust getting thrown right into football, I was feeling it. But getting through that, being able to finish out Week 3, I think my bodyโ€™s fully adapted to football now, and itโ€™s going to be good from here.โ€

Cardinals

Cardinals QB Joshua Dobbs spoke about being traded from the Browns, describing that he was glad to finally have a chance to start.

โ€œThe details of it might have been weird and the logistics of it mightโ€™ve been crazy,โ€ Dobbs said, via Darren Urban of the teamโ€™s official site. โ€œBut at the end of the day, itโ€™s a chance to go play.โ€

Cardinals OC Drew Petzing, who was Dobbsโ€™ quarterbacks coach in Cleveland last year, said the starting job wasnโ€™t handed to Dobbs upon his arrival and he had to earn it. 

โ€œHonestly, no,โ€ Petzing said. โ€œWeโ€™re going to put whoever gives us the best chance to win on the field. Certainly, I knew a little bit about him as a person and a player, and what he brought to the table, but I still believe in the other guys in that room. I was excited to see him win that opportunity, earn that opportunity, but I donโ€™t think it was a predetermined conclusion.โ€

As for when Kyler Murray returns, Dobbs said heโ€™ll be open to whatever role they give him. 

โ€œI stay true to me,โ€ Dobbs said. โ€œIโ€™m excited to see Kyler come back. I have watched his game from afar for a while. Itโ€™s cool to meet him and be in the same room as him and be around him. When [the return] happens, I control what I can control and absorb whatever role that puts me in and go from there. Itโ€™ll be OK. Iโ€™ll manage it, heโ€™ll manage it, weโ€™ll be fine.โ€

Rams

Rams HC Sean McVay recalled a 4th-and-5 situation with 6:09 left in Week 3โ€™s loss to the Bengals where he considered going for it but felt they could lean on their defense at that point.

โ€œI did,โ€ McVay said, via ProFootballTalk. โ€œThought about it, just didnโ€™t feel like it was the right thing. There were some struggles that we had on third down and so had confidence in our defense at that point and so that was kind of the thought process there.โ€

McVay added he tries to sense a โ€œflow of the gameโ€ with playcalling. 

โ€œA lot of it is, OK, whatโ€™s the inventory that you would have?โ€ McVay said. โ€œWhere are you at in regards to whoโ€™s available? Whatโ€™s your injury situation? So certain models and metrics that I definitely believe in, but I also think thereโ€™s a feel for the flow of the game and then thereโ€™s 22 moving parts. Thatโ€™s a huge factor to me.โ€

Rams QB Matthew Stafford said he doesnโ€™t have much input on situations like that but he trusts his coachesโ€™ plans. 

โ€œYeah, at the moment with a 40-second play clock, itโ€™s tough,โ€ Stafford said. โ€œI wish the mic was two-way but itโ€™s only one way. Sometimes I wish I could say something back. . . . But no, in the heat of the moment, I leave it up to those guys. I trust those guys. Sean does a great job a lot of times on some of those third and longs or whatever it is in certain parts of the field, in certain situations in the game where heโ€™s like, โ€˜Hey, we might have two downs here.โ€™ And so that kind of helps train my process as far as, OK, if the underneath guy is open and we can get this thing to fourth and whatever we think is manageable at that point, Iโ€™m aggressive to that. So I leave it up to those guys and then I just try to play accordingly.โ€

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