{"id":517622,"date":"2026-09-11T06:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517622"},"modified":"2026-09-11T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:27:08","slug":"49ers-trash-rams-27-7-in-nfls-1st-australian-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/49ers-trash-rams-27-7-in-nfls-1st-australian-match\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers trash Rams 27-7 in NFL&#8217;s 1st Australian match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers had a great week in Australia as the players gradually adjusted their body clocks, enjoyed Melbourne&#8217;s sights and tastes \u2013 and then they dominated a division rival in the NFL&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> regular-campaign match Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Rams only started their trip only 28 hours before the start of the game, and they flew back out with their Super Bowl aspirations in disarray after getting blown away in a historic campaign opener.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Evans, Demarcus Robinson, and Deebo Samuel caught TD passes from Brock Purdy, and the 49ers defeated the Rams 27-7.<\/p>\n<p>Brock passed for 205 yards vs. Los Angeles\u2019 ineffective defense at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of over 100,000 fans, the 7<sup>th<\/sup>-largest regular-campaign crowd in league history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, we made the right choice by coming here a few days before the kickoff,\u201d shared Evans, who caught 6 passes in an elite San Francisco debut. \u201cThat helped us to get acclimated. All the media attacked it. We said nothing. We actually enjoyed spending time here.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;In my mind, [Brock Purdy&#39;s] always been the best quarterback in the entire league.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>49ers linebacker Fred Warner with high praise for Brock Purdy following their win vs. the Rams \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bBWl20fTt1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bBWl20fTt1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/2098266831702110276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco 49ers had a great week in Australia as the players gradually adjusted their body clocks, enjoyed Melbourne&#8217;s sights and tastes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517623,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16918,16825],"news_category":[16703,14084],"gn_keywords":[18159,18583],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"San Francisco routed Los Angeles behind Brock Purdy's 3 TD passes.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517625,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517622\/revisions\/517625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517622"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517622"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}