The 49ers are in the position all teams in the NFL want to be in three games into the season. They're 3-0 and looking every inch the Super Bowl contender they have been for most of the Kyle Shanahan era. Yet the sentiments shared after Thursday's cruise to a 30-12 victory over the Giants were markedly familiar to those expressed after the Week 2 win over the Rams.

As was the case five days earlier in Los Angeles, the 49ers were not at their best, but they never needed to be as they comfortably outperformed the Giants in all areas.

The Niners almost doubled up the Giants in time of possession, racked up 441 yards to the Giants' 150 and had 26 first downs to New York's 10.

Yet, after a game that saw quarterback Brock Purdy initially struggle to deal with the Giants' aggressive approach on defense and the 49ers go two for five in the red zone, there was no huge celebration among those in the locker room over their performance, with the Niners instead focusing on the areas where they can get even better.

Purdy, who put together his first 300-yard regular-season performance, felt the offensive display fell short of expectations, primarily because of the failings inside the Giants' 20-yard line.

Said Purdy:

"It felt like it was a little choppy at first. But once we got into a rhythm, we sort of saw what they were doing, at what point in the game they're going to start doing stuff, we had a good feel for it a couple of drives into the game. Once we got rolling, put some drives together and got in the red zone, we've just got to score. Obviously, the field goals and putting up points are great, but our standard is we want to score touchdowns when we get in the red zone."

The 49ers made NFL history by becoming only the third team to win their first three games while scoring exactly the same amount of points in each. Shanahan was more complimentary of the offense than Purdy, but agreed with his quarterback's assessment that the attack needs to be more clinical.

"That's why we tried to struggle in the red zone so we could keep 30 three weeks in a row," Shanahan joked when asked about that stat. "I didn't even realize that until after, but I mean, it's great to get 30 three weeks in a row but we felt like we left a lot out there too."

He added: "I think we got to improve because I think we could have more points than that."

There were fewer bones to pick with a suffocating defensive performance, the only touchdown allowed by the 49ers coming after a pair of special teams penalties allowed the Giants to start a drive at San Francisco's 37-yard line.

Still, defensive leader Fred Warner stuck to the same hymn sheet as Purdy and Shanahan, delivering a reminder to the rest of the NFL that arguably the best team in the league over the first three weeks still has several different levels it can go to.

Warner said: "Yeah, that's exactly how you draw it up, 3-0 to start. We talked about trying to get off to a faster start but nobody is satisfied though. I wouldn't say that.

"I think there's so much room for improvement, you can watch the tape and there's little things all over the place that every single guy can get better at. We've got a long way to go for the team we want to be going forward."

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