🚨 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 : Nick Bosa explains what he wishes he had done earlier this season to “shut people up.”

Nick Bosa explains what he wishes he had done earlier this season to “shut people up.”

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year has been sacked in every game but once for the Niners in the past month and a half. But in the first month, Nick Bosa only recorded one sack.

Bosa was on KNBR’s “Murph and Mac” on Tuesday, where he discussed whether the “slow” start was due to missing training camp: “I think I was pretty close. I mean Game 1, no, I wouldn’t say.

But after that I thought my tape against the Rams was pretty good. I definitely wish I could have walked a few times in an earlier game because that would have shut people down.”

It was fun to see the immediate reaction of 49ers fans on social media to Bosa’s perceived lack of production through the first four games of the season.

The best pass rushers in the NFL “win” one out of five replays. They are fired two to four percent of the time. And it is highest.

That’s also before we acknowledge that Bosa, who won Defensive Player of the Year a season ago, was the top-double-double defensive lineman for most of the first two months of the season.

Bosa explained why statistics aren’t everything: “Sacks are not, especially when you play a defense that really depends on you doing your job, you can’t really be a freelancer.

If you want to be one of the best defenders in the league, you have to do your job, and I think , that we are really unselfish here. .

So it’s not just about the stats and we won games early and we’re still winning games now so I’ve gotten better all year and I’m still getting better all year. I think it’s a constant evolution.”

Constant development indeed. According to Sports Info Solutions, after Week 5, no player hit or sacked the quarterback more than Bosa. His seven sacks in that span are tied for second.

According to Sports Info Solutions, after

Week 5, no player hit or sacked the

quarterback more than Bosa. His seven

sacks in that span are tied for second.

Only T.J.

Wat has a higher “earns compensation”

SCORE than Bosa. I would say he was

more than dominant. And he is far from

a one-dimensional player.

Bosa is in the top 10 in “run stops” since

Week 5, which means he’s struggling for a

loss on offense. Looking at the offensive

lines the Niners will face in the offseason,

Bosa should continue his hot streak.