We're getting some wild Thursday games lately. First the Bucs-Falcons shootout, now this, which was up-tempo from the opening kickoff. And when the dust had settled, and those of us who forgot to set our Blackout lineups (and definitely would have used Deebo) had lamented it long enough, the 49ers rolled up a 36-24 win.

QUARTERBACKS

There's apparently some debate (Niners fans, people who hate them, I don't know) over how good Brock Purdy is. My two cents: it's stupid. Football is a team game. Is Purdy Steve Young, no, but he's pretty good and definitely good enough for this team to win a Super Bowl with. He makes good throws, he distributes the ball well to his wealth of talented players, he runs a little when necessary. Is he helped by the skill players around him, of course! Purdy in Las Vegas would probably be struggling. So would Jared Goff and a lot of other guys who might win a Super Bowl in the next few years. Nice game from Purdy.

Geno Smith doesn't get a lot of love, probably because he mixes really good games with bad ones all in the same game. Last night he threw a bad interception on Seattle's first series with them driving down the field, hard to figure what he saw there (not, apparently, the safety). But he's also leading the NFL in passing yards and making some pretty great throws to all his various targets as well, so he's made a nice career for himself after a poor start with the Jets. I'm not sure I'll say Seattle can win a Super Bowl with him, but he can get them to the playoffs, and you can win with him in fantasy, too. Last night was more a case of Seattle's banged-up defense not having enough to cover all of San Francisco's weapons. Smith lost a pair of touchdowns last night on other players' mistakes, I'll get to those.

RUNNING BACKS

I think Jordan Mason would have run for about 150 yards and 2 TDs in this game. Instead he suffered a shoulder injury in the second quarter after running for 65 yards on just 8 carries, returned in the second half to carry it one time for 8 yards, then left again. (What are sideline doctors doing, exactly? A couple of weeks ago Khalil Shakir returned to catch a long pass through an ankle injury which probably didn't help the issue, Josh Allen last week checked himself of the blue medical tent to throw up a few foolhardy deep balls in a game that should have gone to overtime, now this.) Mason looked great, but now we'll need to see if he's going to miss time.

Isaac Guerendo, obviously, needs to be added everywhere. He had a breakaway run late last night to clinch the game. A little controversy at the end where he either was tackled or slid down on purpose to kill more clock. I've watched the play 10 times and can make the case for both. Shanahan says they wanted him to score (would have been his first NFL touchdown). Deebo Samuel said he would have scored, and that Guerendo said people on the sideline were telling him not to. "I don't know why he was looking at the sideline." Anyway, Guerendo will probably be reeling off 80-90 yard rushing games in this offense if Mason is out.

Kenneth Walker salvaged a lesser rushing game with a 1-yard touchdown and some garbage-time receiving stats. San Francisco's run defense looked very solid and getting out to a 16-0 lead obviously helped. Walker was kind of a forgotten man on draft day but I hope all the people who thought Zach Charbonnet was some kind of threat to Walker when he was drafted have finally given up that notion. Charbonnet is a backup running back who was drafted too early. He'll be fine if Walker is hurt and he's got some PPR value at times with Seattle using him in some obvious passing situations, but he will never make this a committee; Walker's a lot better.

WIDE RECEIVERS

Big game for Deebo Samuel. I mentioned in the Weekly that Seattle had no answer for him a year ago, he did his damage last night on just 5 targets. Long touchdown early on a nice play design/route/adjustment by both Purdy and Samuel and a bad gamble by the safety. As so often happens, Samuel's work meant that everyone who started Brandon Aiyuk busted, no better than Jauan Jennings. What are you gonna do? Not starting either Deebo or Aiyuk isn't really an option, you just hope your guy gets his numbers.

Very, very frustrating night for those who started DK Metcalf (he also wrecked a really nice parlay for me). A game-high 11 targets resulted in just 3 catches for 48 yards. He lost one touchdown right before the half on a really nice Smith throw in the corner of the end zone where Metcalf's toe was on the line as he caught it. Later he lost a 52-yard touchdown on an illegal shift penalty. The frustration in Metcalf's demeanor was obvious. We feel you, DK.

Tyler Lockett and Jaxon Smith-Njigba didn't see quite as many targets, but finished with better numbers, including a late Lockett touchdown, with the catch-up nature of the second half for the Seahawks. Smith attempted 52 passes, which is how the offense has been forced to operate lately with the defense struggling. Smith-Njigba had a couple of near-misses and Lockett had one right before his score. Gotta start these guys most weeks right now. Even Jake Bobo had a couple of catches on 4 targets, file away his name in deeper leagues as someone who will join the top 3 once of the current group gets injured.

TIGHT ENDS

Anytime touchdown bet for George Kittle pays off with a nifty bit of footwork for one, and a second score later. With all the top tight ends either disappointing or getting injured, interesting that Kittle has been comparatively reliable.

Noah Fant, meanwhile, had his second 6-catch game of the season, frustrating because those have alternated with 4 games where he's averaged 2 catches for 19 yards. Good luck guessing right on Fant's involvement in the gameplan. I will note that 3 for 35 last night came in the final six minutes with Seattle down two scores and the Niners content giving up completions over the middle. I will still not be using Fant most weeks.

MISCELLANEOUS

The 49ers got a nice night out of Matthew Wright, who kicked three field goals from inside 41 yards. Wright at the end had to make a tackle on a kickoff, so hopefully he didn't get injured. This game really highlighted why teams are opting to kick the ball into the end zone rather than the "landing zone." Seattle had a kick return touchdown from Laviska Shenault (he basically ran right through the middle, it looked like the 49ers didn't know how to tackle him, perhaps out of practice or not used to the new rules where they can't move until after it's fielded), and then that late return where San Francisco potentially got another kicker hurt. Look for plenty more kickoffs into end zones for any special teams coaches tuned in last night.

In the fourth quarter, Seattle muffed a punt which was challenged but incorrectly ruled that Seattle hadn't touched it. Afterward, someone from the NFL admitted they didn't have as good a camera angle as Amazon Prime and that's why they botched the call on review. What? Seems like there should be someone watching the broadcast who can provide that insight to help the correct calls get made.

So Guerendo will be the big pickup next week, unless perhaps Christian McCaffrey is nearing a return. What's clear is the San Francisco offense looks pretty great no matter who's at running back. If they can stop turning it over and stay healthyish, they'll be scoring lots of points the rest of the way. Seattle and their opponents will be, too.