9ers Ain't Very Good

[Hangtime]

More lucky than good, the 9ers come into SOFI with swag and unmerited bravado. This is still an average offense that runs well and never quits. Great coach with a so-so QB but hardly a team that strikes fear in opponents. Samuel is their best player and Raheem needs to find a way to shut him down. Lucky to win with a blocked punt vs GB, Jimmy will have to score a bunch to beat the peaking Rams.

Rams offense will be too much for them. I expect a wire to wire victory.

Rams by 17

[ocram23]

More lucky than good, the 9ers come into SOFI with swag and unmerited bravado. This is still an average offense that runs well and never quits. Great coach with a so-so QB but hardly a team that strikes fear in opponents. Samuel is their best player and Raheem needs to find a way to shut him down. Lucky to win with a blocked punt vs GB, Jimmy will have to score a bunch to beat the peaking Rams.

Rams offense will be too much for them. I expect a wire to wire victory.

Rams by 17

come on SB you know damn well they are a good team. it's ok to hate them like we all do but let's stop the nonsense about calling them lucky and not good.

[NorCal RF]

What a bleeping ridiculous thread. One could argue, no matter how hard it is to say it, that they are the best team in the NFC when healthy…………..

AGAIN someone doesn’t understand football…………….

[brasilrams]

LOL god damn it man . We can hate the niners all we want but they are NOW a top 2 team in the NFC and a top 4 in the LEAGUE . They keep winning games despite having a mediocre qb . their coaching staff is as good as ANY in the league , they have an extremely good and aggressive defense and probably the most physical WR / RB ( deebo ) and TE ( kittle ) in the league .

[Hangtime]

I stand by my prediction...wire to wire victory....

They're good----not great...ain't very great...feel better?

[Commish]

The 49ers have decent personnel overall, not championship level by any means, however they do have superior coaching which manages to keep them focused on playing hard for an NFL game's full 60 minutes.

In their last three victories, the head coaches they faced (Sean McVay, Mike McCarthy and Matt LaFleur) point-blank were unable to do that with their more talented teams.

Did McVay learn any lessons from the Rams' critical, pathetic collapse vs. the 49ers in their regular-season finale?

"Stay tuned..." :( :P

ram pathos...

--The Commish

[toast49]

I don't think the niners are all that good. Problem is they think they are when they play us. They don't quit that's for sure.

[RamPower]

The 49ers have decent personnel overall, not championship level by any means

What's your criteria on that statement btw?

[fan since 65]

The 49ers have decent personnel overall, not championship level by any means, however they do have superior coaching which manages to keep them focused on playing hard for an NFL game's full 60 minutes.

In their last three victories, the head coaches they faced (Sean McVay, Mike McCarthy and Matt LaFleur) point-blank were unable to do that with their more talented teams.

Did McVay learn any lessons from the Rams' critical, pathetic collapse vs. the 49ers in their regular-season finale?

"Stay tuned..." :( :P

ram pathos...

--The Commish

and of course by you the 9ers are mere "pretenders" who were going to get walloped by dem cowboys by at least 10...I don't think you are a great judge of overall team talent...

[malibu]

I too do not think the 9ers are that great mainly based on their QB. It is their DL, power run game and great HC that helps even out his erratic play.

This time around I feel our Offense is clicking on all cylinders, we are at home, Von and OBJ have found their groove. Whit and Jones should be back and Cam has 2 more games under his belt. If we don't turn the ball over we win and convincingly imo.

[fan since 65]

the 9ers have 5, 1st round picks on their DL...they have the most versatile offensive threat in Deebo Samuel...it ain't all smoke and mirrors gentlemen they have talent...even if some on this board don't want to see it...

[unclesams]

The 49ers aren't that fu cking good!! Like someone said, they are more freakin lucky than anything else. They run 5 fu ck ing plays....Pitch left. Pitch right, Pitch middle run, screen pass, 5 yard crossing pass. I've seen that lame s h I t every damn game they play. (Watch the tape). Rams need to go out there Sunday and take a pissed off attitude with them and beat those sorry MF ers into submission. This Rams team has peaked and it would not surprise me that the 41 we should have hung on the Buccaneers, we gonna hang it on them Sunday.

"If you punch the so called bully in the mouth hard enough, they soon realize they weren't the bully at all"

[fan since 65]

well if they 'only' run the five same plays and everyone, including the geniuses watching, know what is coming and it still can't be stopped then I guess it is talent that is racking up all the wins...no body wants the Rams to beat the 9ers more than I but to say the 'team' beyond the QB is not loaded with talent ain't seeing reality...go Rams!

[Commish]

The 49ers have decent personnel overall, not championship level by any means

What's your criteria on that statement btw?

If not for our team's big-time 'choke' in their regular-season finale, the 49ers wouldn't even have been in the postseason.

Of course, Kyle Shanahan has been 'living in in Sean McVay's head' for the past three years, I've stated that on numerous occasions already.

Take away those two 'automatic' wins for the 49ers and they're 8-7 for the rest of the 2021 regular season, including winless (0-4) vs. the rest of the NFC West.

Coaching and game preparation by coaching staff are critical factors in NFL contests (as shown by the Bills' recent loss to the Chiefs), ones that can contribute to a team with less talented personnel overall defeating one with better players in general.

Mike McCarthy clearly didn't have the Cowboys ready to perform anywhere near their top efficiency in their NFC 'wild card' collapse, that much was blatantly obvious. A week later Matt LaFleur certainly wasn't able to get Aaron Rodgers to perform anything like the league's Most Valuable Player in the Packers' divisional-round defeat--if he had, their putrid kicking game wouldn't have mattered all that much.

I've never criticized Shanahan's coaching of the 49ers, he's done an exceptional job, I don't dispute that.

So there you have it--still, as a long-time, true-blue Rams fan, I take the historic arch-rivalry seriously, I'll always intensely dislike the 49ers... :o :x

ram pathos...

--The Commish

[Glacierjohn]

I hope we beat them 42-0 and believe it’s possible but until we actually beat them for real, I can’t say with a straight face that we’re the better team.

[Rampager66]

Facing lose and your done situations the last 3 weeks SF has

Won @ 12-5 Rams
Won @ 12-5 Dallas
Won @ 13-4 G.B.
I hate their stinking F.n guts like nothing else in this dimension, but to call them lucky or not that good is as asinine as it gets.
They will bring game on Sunday and we better bring more then them if we want the W...

Go Rams!

[ocram23]

The 49ers aren't that fu cking good!! Like someone said, they are more freakin lucky than anything else. They run 5 fu ck ing plays....Pitch left. Pitch right, Pitch middle run, screen pass, 5 yard crossing pass. I've seen that lame s h I t every damn game they play. (Watch the tape). Rams need to go out there Sunday and take a pissed off attitude with them and beat those sorry MF ers into submission. This Rams team has peaked and it would not surprise me that the 41 we should have hung on the Buccaneers, we gonna hang it on them Sunday.

"If you punch the so called bully in the mouth hard enough, they soon realize they weren't the bully at all"

stop with they only run 5 plays. this Niner team is very good and most importantly very physical. going to be a tough game

[Rammo]

They are good and we better bring it physically and mentally to beat them. That being said we are the better team and if we play clean and don't let them run all over us we should win by 10 plus points.....