{"id":461765,"date":"2026-09-12T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:54:59","slug":"49ers-27-rams-7-bad-takes-on-the-rams-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461765\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers 27, Rams 7: Bad takes on the Rams exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Francisco 49ers went to Melbourne, Australia, and beat the Los Angeles Rams 27-7<\/a> on Thursday. The 49ers were three-point underdogs, but the Rams were being seen as the darlings of the NFL.<\/p>\n

I think ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith said it best <\/a>the next day when asked if the media overhyped the Los Angeles Rams: \u201cIt appears so.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like me, you like to point out when people are wrong\u2014especially when it\u2019s bad predictions on the 49ers or their rivals. In this case, things were leaning heavily toward the Rams and the \u201csuper team\u201d they built. Then the 49ers went to Melbourne, Australia, and beat them 27-7. And for a Week 1 game, it wasn\u2019t very sloppy either.<\/p>\n

Now don\u2019t get too excited. This was Week 1. I\u2019m the first to tell you never to take stock in Week 1 games because it\u2019s almost a given that teams look sloppy and have rust to knock off. The thing is, the 49ers looked really good. Not sloppy-play, good, but just good. Sure, it\u2019s Week 1, and the 49ers could come back to earth next week, but it\u2019s the Rams, and I can\u2019t help myself.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s be petty and make fun of some bad takes made before the game while we have time!<\/p>\n

Bill Plaschke: \u201cRams will go undefeated on their way to winning another home Super Bowl title<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

We had a couple of those \u201cRams are running the table\u201d takes going around, but none got more notorious than the Los Angeles Times\u2019 Bill Plaschke and his column on how the Rams are going to go 17-0.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to make a crazy take myself: I don\u2019t think the Rams are running the table.<\/p>\n

Plaschke went on to tell us this was a \u201cFavorable schedule\u201d. One where the Rams now have the New York Giants at home, then travel to both the Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles. Then they have the Buffalo Bills. I guess you can say that\u2019s \u201cfavorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plaschke hasn\u2019t responded on X as of this writing, besides his recent column<\/a> in the LA Times about the game being a \u201cjet-lagged flop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Wright: \u201cI think the Niners defense could be really bad\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the time when Wright makes a take, you can easily prove it wrong within five minutes, like his statement that you need first-rounders as skill-position players<\/a>. I\u2019m not going to say he\u2019s wrong in being skeptical of the defense, but \u201creally bad\u201d is the exact opposite of what actually happened.<\/p>\n

Like many of you, I had questions about Raheem Morris as defensive coordinator\u2014and still do. Unlike many of you, when I saw Nick Sorensen as defensive coordinator in Week 1 of 2024, I grew optimistic immediately and had high expectations.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m doing the same thing and having big expectations with Morris. That defense was nothing short of impressive, and this is without Mykel Williams, which should be a nice shot in the arm when he gets back. The 49ers didn\u2019t get a sack, but they did get eight quarterback hits (four of which came from Osa Odighizuwa). The result was a flustered Matthew Stafford throwing a pick to Renardo Green.<\/p>\n

If you think that\u2019s good, remember that\u2019s eight hits in one game. The 49ers had 58 all of 2025<\/a>. That\u2019s an average of under four per game. That, my friends, is improvement.<\/p>\n

Oh, while we\u2019re on the subject: the Rams didn\u2019t have Aaron Donald, but they did have Myles Garrett. Well, kinda. The Rams had zero (0) sacks and two (2) quarterback hits. That zero is also what shows up for Garrett\u2019s stat sheet. That\u2019s some 2025 49ers defense if I ever saw it. This is a 49ers offensive line we\u2019ve all been questioning this offseason, and they got to Purdy twice? Week 1 or Week 15, that\u2019s not good. Congrats on your interception, though.<\/p>\n

Louis Riddick: \u201cI think there is a significant gap between the two\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Riddick was quick to say the roster of the 49ers was a good group, except it was dependent on a fully healthy Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, Nick Bosa, and Fred Warner.<\/p>\n

After that list, he went on to say those are \u201caging guys\u2014well, besides Fred Warner, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, sure, those are aging guys, but if Fred Warner is not an aging guy, how in the hell is Nick Bosa, a player taken a year later, an \u201caging\u201d guy? Yes, the 49ers have an older roster, and yes, Bosa has his injury concerns, but aging doesn\u2019t seem like the right word here.<\/p>\n

To be fair to Riddick, his take came from evaluating the roster\u2019s health by Week 1 and showing the Rams had little issue with health while the 49ers were still working players like George Kittle back. There\u2019s some substance to that, and I can\u2019t disagree. That said, the gap isn\u2019t nearly as significant as we\u2019re led to believe.<\/p>\n

A week ago, Riddick shared concerns about the roster.<\/p>\n

This moron from Niners Nation:<\/a> \u201cI think the Rams win this one. As per usual, this game is going to be competitive as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s really twist the knife on the rhetoric spewed by this guy:<\/p>\n

As for a winner, I think the Rams win this one. As per usual, this game is going to be competitive as ever and will come down to the wire, as these games usually do. We\u2019ll get the usual offensive showcase between Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, but the Rams win and thank Australia for giving them an easier field.<\/p>\n

Yes, me. I was an idiot. I said there would be an offensive showcase, not a one-sided beatdown (minus a dumb Brock Purdy interception). I wouldn\u2019t have been surprised had the 49ers won that game, but I certainly didn\u2019t see that happening<\/a>. Logically, I thought they would come up short.<\/p>\n

And this is what I get for thinking. Competitive? You mean benching Matthew Stafford with under two minutes left was competitive? I mean, didn\u2019t you hear the announcer? They said the Rams had an opportunity with two timeouts and Eddy Pi\u00f1eiro missing his field goal. So there was hope!<\/p>\n

In any case, I\u2019ll add my bad take to this list. What are your bad takes on the game that you had to sit through all of August and September? Put them in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers went to Melbourne, Australia, and beat the Los Angeles Rams 27-7 on Thursday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,51924,12729,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-461765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-scores-and-results","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}