{"id":43989,"date":"2017-09-22T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43989"},"modified":"2017-09-22T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:46:22","slug":"surprise-surprise-rams-and-49ers-give-us-a-great-thursday-night-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/surprise-surprise-rams-and-49ers-give-us-a-great-thursday-night-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, surprise! Rams and 49ers give us a great Thursday night game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Surprise, surprise! Rams and 49ers give us a great Thursday night game<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Finally, a really fun game. On \u201cThursday Night Football,\u201d no less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">If you tuned in Thursday night, you probably didn\u2019t expect much. The San Francisco 49ers hadn\u2019t scored a touchdown in either of their games this season. The Los Angeles Rams showed signs of life, but they\u2019re still the Rams. We didn\u2019t expect a classic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Maybe it\u2019s not a classic, but it might be the best \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d game we\u2019ve seen, the best game of this young NFL season \u2013 and nobody saw it coming. The Rams finally prevailed 41-39 in an entertaining, high-scoring game. It was the highest scoring game in \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">This Sean McVay-Kyle Shanahan rivalry might be fun. McVay, the Rams\u2019 new coach, has improved his team\u2019s offense tremendously. The Rams traded blows with the 49ers, who have their own offensive guru in Shanahan, and we had a tight, high-scoring and thrilling game into the fourth quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 49ers rallied late. They scored, recovered a fumble on a kickoff return and scored again. The 49ers missed a two-point conversion with a little more than two minutes left \u2013 they had to go for two because the 49ers missed an extra point early in the fourth quarter \u2013 so they needed an onside kick. And the 49ers recovered it to keep their hopes of winning alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Rams\u2019 defense finally made a couple plays to win it. Linebacker Mark Barron made an incredible stop on a screen pass to Carlos Hyde, who would have gotten deep into Rams territory had Barron not wrapped him up, and Aaron Donald got a fourth-down sack to seal the Rams\u2019 win. It wasn\u2019t easy, however. The Rams needed big nights from many of their offensive stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">L.A.\u2019s offense showed up in a big way. It\u2019s the first time it has scored 40 or more points in multiple games in a season since 2006, and this season is only three games old. You can see McVay\u2019s influence on the offense already. Jared Goff, who struggled so much as a rookie last season, had 292 yards and three touchdowns. Todd Gurley, who struggled last season, had 149 total yards and three touchdowns. The Rams haven\u2019t played offense this well in more than a decade. They\u2019re exciting all of a sudden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 49ers finally showed some signs of offensive life too. Brian Hoyer rebounded from a terrible start to the season with 332 yards and two touchdowns. Hyde had two touchdowns. Pierre Garcon had 142 yards receiving. This game had a little bit of everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Had you said before kickoff that the 49ers would score 39 points, nobody would have believed it and there\u2019s no chance anyone would have believed they lost while scoring 39. But this was a thriller on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Maybe all the stories about how scoring in the NFL was down and would never rebound were a little premature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/surprise-surprise-rams-49ers-give-us-great-thursday-night-game-035758659.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/surprise-surprise-rams-and-49ers-give-us-a-great-thursday-night-game.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, surprise! 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