Niners Nation
The San Francisco 49ers have pulled their 10th win out for the 2025 season, continuing Kyle Shanahan’s masterclass of winning with an injured roster. While some might be a bit concerned about the Titans getting a fumble and getting back into the game as a result, it was one of those things that just happens. The 49ers didn’t let up or melt down at all, even if it was against the Tennessee Titans.
The big thing to take from this is the 49ers offense: If it can be crisp and clean, they can win anywhere. The defense, on the other hand, can slow the opposition down, but it’s not going to win you games in the postseason. It’s Brock Purdy’s time to shine for the rest of the year. If the 49ers can manage to win it all, it’s because of him.
I’d want a 49ers Super Bowl win just for that, because it could silence all his critics. But I know that’s nonsense, even if it does happen.
Around the division, the key players won, sadly. So the 49ers remain a game back, while the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks need to settle things.
The Lions were giving all of us a lot of hope. Despite their defense doing Detroit defense things, they had it at 24-14, and may have kept it that way, if not for the last-second field goal to end the half.
Then the offense just vanished. The Rams came out in the third quarter with two touchdowns and a field goal. The Lions never scored again until the fourth quarter was nearly halfway through. Not like the measly field goal they scored there helped. The Lions added another meaningless tuddy to the board, and that was it. Thanks, Detroit. Thanks for nothing. Final score 41-34, Rams.
Other oddities in the game were how the Rams had only two penalties for a total of eight yards. And the first of those two wasn’t called until inside of three minutes in the fourth quarter. That’s sound football right there. Could there have been more? Probably, judging by things like this:
All I’m saying is, if a team manages only eight yards on two penalties all game? Fill it in yourself.
The other oddity is the injury bug that bit the Rams’ wide receiver corps. First, Davante Adams got a hamstring reinjury a couple of minutes into the fourth quarter. Rams head coach Sean McVay said, “It didn’t look good,” and he may not be showing up for the Thursday Night game against the Seahawks.
Adams wasn’t the only one. Puka Nacua took a rather nasty hit against his back/head and couldn’t stand up after. The Rams called it “cramps”—whatever that means. Nacua came back for the final series, so it wasn’t nearly as bad as initially thought.
The Rams are now at 11 wins and have a playoff berth clinched. What they don’t have is the NFC West, because that still...
