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Sean McVay speaks out after Rams' crushing 27-7 loss to 49ers

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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay talks with members of the media after an OTA offseason workout at Rams Village at Warner Center on June 2nd, 2026 in Woodland Hills, California.

The Los Angeles Rams lobbied the NFL to play the San Francisco 49ers in Australia and paid for it instantly. A 20-point blowout, star acquisition Myles Garrett benched in the second half, and a statement 1-0 start for the 49ers. Be careful what you wish for.

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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay looks on during NFC Championship Game against the Seattle Seahawks, on Sunday January 25, 2026 in Seattle, Washington.

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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay looks on during NFC Championship Game against the Seattle Seahawks, on Sunday January 25, 2026 in Seattle, Washington.

Sean McVay had no answers. Suffering his first double-digit defeat in two years, 27-7, the Rams head coach summed up the Melbourne nightmare in three words: “A humbling day.”

The game flipped on one goal-line gamble. Down 17-7, McVay passed on a short field goal and called a 4th-and-1 QB sneak. The 49ers’ wall held, took the ball, and marched 99 yards for a knockout touchdown.

Matthew Stafford rarely gets neutralized like this. It was just the second time in his last 85 starts that Stafford failed to score double digits. Both times, it was the 49ers applying the clamps.

“First of all, congratulations to the 49ers,” McVay said. “They outplayed us in every facet. I didn’t do nearly a good enough job. This is a humbling day for us. This will define us only if we allow it to, and today was one of those days.

“I always look inside out. I didn’t do a good enough job getting us ready to go. There were some opportunities where maybe the game could’ve flipped, but they deserve the win. They were ready to go. We’ll look at it, we’ll see where we can improve and be better moving forward. This is a good, humbling day.

“Sometimes sports can humble you and today was one of those days,” he continued. “I make no excuses.”

Instead of taking three easy points to cut the lead to seven, McVay rolled the dice on 4th-and-goal inside the 1. The 49ers stuffed Stafford cold with 3:41 left in the third, seizing total control.

The Rams' locker room was left searching for answers. “We got beat in all three phases,” Myles Garrett said. Defensive tackle Kobie Turner tried to project calm: “Setbacks are setups for greater comebacks.”

Stafford spent the final drive on the sideline watching backup Stetson Bennett close out garbage time. Stafford’s final line: a dismal 15-of-25 for 155 yards and zero answers.

The win for the 49ers came at a heavy price

Highly anticipated San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver De'Zhaun Stribling suffered a non-contact ankle injury and couldn't put weight on his leg, raising immediate fears of an Achilles tear. Meanwhile, George Kittle returned in eight months from his own Achilles surgery, but clearly wasn't at 100 percent.

The 49ers head home across the Pacific with a 1-0 divisional record and an unmistakable statement on the scoreboard.

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Robert Saleh Causes Stir With Ex-Jets Workouts Before Titans Game

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - AUGUST 29: Ben Johnson of the Chicago Bears and Robert Saleh of the Tennessee Titans shake hands after a pre-season game at Nissan Stadium on August 29, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images) Getty

Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh just can’t help himself.

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NFL Insider Aaron Wilson revealed on social media that Saleh worked out multiple former members of the New York Jets before Week 1: wide receivers Xavier Gipson and Jason Brownlee.

Gipson, 25, spent the first 2.5 years of his career with the Jets from 2023 through the first game of the 2025 season. Brownlee, 27, spent the first two years of his career with the Jets.

Both players were featured on the 2023 version of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” with the Jets. One of the storylines was whether either player would make the final 53-man roster. In a cool twist of fate, both players ended up making the final cut as former undrafted free agents.

Saleh Has a Problem

One of the first steps with fixing an addiction problem is admitting to the issue. Let’s just call a spade a spade. Saleh is obsessed with former Jets players.

Just look at the Titans roster:

I mean, this is ridiculous. Saleh finished with a 20-36 record as the head coach of the Jets. Why is he trying to rebuild an older version of the Jets? It doesn’t make sense.

The Key That Will Decide the Week 1 Matchup

Both head coaches admitted that Week 1 is a “crapshoot.”

When you have new coaches or people with new roles, there is a lot of speculation about what you think you’re going to see on the field. However there is no way to truly know what will happen.

Saleh is calling defense again. Head coach Aaron Glenn is calling defense. What about Frank Reich back as an OC? Or Brian Daboll on the other side? So many questions, but so few answers.

“Absolutely, you have to take every bit of information and try to figure out, there aren’t a lot of people that just totally change who they are. Obviously, there’s going to be some wrinkles, and I told our guys we have to be ready for ingame adjustments. That’s going to be one of the biggest parts of this game is how we adjust. That could be adjust on the sideline on the fly, that could be adjust at halftime to what they’re doing, and our guys understand that. But you look at every bit of information you can to try to get something on how these guys operate,” Glenn explained to the media this week.

“And again, even for me, I’m sure they’re going to look at some things that I’ve done in Detroit, see if that’s what we’ll do and probably practice against some of those concepts and I understand that. But to me, that’s exactly what we do. What he did with the Giants, what he did in preseason, what Saleh did in San Francisco, even some of the things he did here with the Jets. We know some of those concepts are going to show up, but we also know it’s going to be a wrinkle here and there,” Glenn added.

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