Left tackle Joe Staley broke his left leg and will likely be out for six weeks. Staley said he’s still hopeful to play before the end of the season.

Staley went out of the game, went to get X-rays after getting kicked by defensive end James Hall. The X-rays were negative. He went in and got kicked in the lower leg again. “That’s when I knew I broke it.”

Staley stayed in the game for a few more plays before hobbling off the field.

Joe Nedney also hurt his right knee on the first kickoff of the game. He’ll be evaluated more on Monday. However, the injury didn’t prevent him from booting the game winner and kicking off. Here’s what Nedney said after the game.

“My knee’s a little sore. We’ll figure it out, what it is tomorrow. It was good enough to kick the ball through, that’s all that matters. … It stayed stable enough for me to do my job. I couldn’t go crazy on it and I couldn’t kick a kickoff full speed but did enough to get out there and get the job done and that’s all that matters to me right now. We got the win. I’m a happy guy.”

Other injuries included cornerback Will James with a concussion, guard Adam Snyder with a shoulder sprain.

The 49ers have no choice but to start Troy Smith. If they don’t, players will revolt. Here’s what Delanie Walker said about Smith.

“It’s like we are in the back yard and we’re kids again and the street lights are about to come on and our moms are about to come out and we need to win this game and we got one play in us. I feel that’s how he is. We are going to take it to the limit. He throws the deep ball, he takes chances.”

Shawntae Spencer: “I’m excited about him. We’re all excited about him.”

Not everybody was happy with how the team played. Center David Baas called his team’s performance, “annoying.”

“We left way too much on the field,” Bass said. “You can see we can be really good. Man, it’s just detail stuff. The little stuff here and there. It’s so annoying. We won, but we could have won bigger.”

Chilo Rachal didn’t start because he missed two days because of the birth of his son, Chilo jr. Rachal didn’t agree with Singletary about sitting. “I’m a competitor, I want to play.”

Tony Wragge deserves a lot of credit. He had never played left tackle in a game and said he hadn’t practiced at the position for eight or nine years. When the 49ers called a run play to his side, which called for a kick out block, Wragge said he had never done it before. But he got the job done.

One statistic worth noting, Troy Smith’s 356 yards passing are the most for a 49ers quarterback since Tim Rattay threw for 417 yards on Sept 10, 2004 in an overtime win over Arizona.