If 49ers are to win their last two games and make it to the postseason, George Kittle and Nick Bosa will have to be the movers and shakers.
SANTA CLARA — No need to make this complicated.
As much as the focus for the 49ers against Houston is on whether Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance will be the starting quarterback, it won’t matter if Kittle and Bosa perform at an elite level at which both are familiar. Neither player did the kind of damage they’ve done in other games in a 20-17 loss to Tennessee. Kittle, who caught 28 passes for 425 yards in the previous three games, had two catches for 21 yards.
To be fair, it’s not as if tight ends or edge rushers can dictate things on a quarterback level. Tennessee went out of its way to make sure Kittle was accounted for, and Bosa faced a tight end and chip blocks from running backs to an extreme.
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