How about that backup quarterback? No one knew his name before he took the field yesterday, but he played with poise and swagger, passing for 365 yards and three touchdowns. Will he be the new face of the franchise? Will he lead his team to glory?

There's only so much pixie dust to go around. In a game where analysts were talking about parallels between yesterday's two unlikely starting quarterbacks, Brock Purdy wrestled the glass slipper from Taylor Heinicke and led the 49ers to a 37-20 win.

Would it be premature to go get a Brock Purdy tattoo?

The true test of who this San Francisco team really is will come next week, when the 8-3 Miami Dolphins, who have won five in a row, come to Levi's Stadium.

The Niners have won two in a row, and their prospects for the rest of the season are anyone's guess.

Are the Niners a slightly unpredictable team who lose games that they should win, and win games that they should lose?

When the 2-3 Atlanta Falcons marched straight down the field on their first, seven-ish-minute drive on Sunday for the eventual touchdown, it was clear that the game — which on paper favored the San Francisco 49ers — was going to be tougher than expected.

The win was convincing, but so is the injury list. Even though the San Francisco 49ers went into Charlotte, North Carolina, and handled the Panthers with relative ease, they left with a chunk of their roster banged up.

When would the 49ers season take on a momentum of its own? When would Jimmy G just be the QB again, and not the guy who had said his goodbyes, packed his bags and had surgery, only to be resurrected in the red and gold, like a ridiculously good-looking Frankenstein?

Though they never really seemed to be in the game, Russell Wilson and the Broncos managed to come away with the 11-10 W, while the 49ers can only shrug their shoulders, and wonder if they can bring the past back into the present, while they wait for the future.