Mad props to 12th Man for travelling to Levi’s South and bringing home a gut-wrenching hard-fought victory over the Rams last night. Mac Jones, wounded, cramping, and shovelling bananas down his gullet all night, managed to will the 49ers to a win without any starting WRs, TEs, or run game.

The defense gave up 450 yards, but made the last crucial stop in OT on 4th and one from the 12 yard line. Very reminiscent of Pete Carroll NOT going with the run in Seattle’s Super Bowl loss, as Matt Stafford and co amassed 378 in the air, and only 78 on the ground. McVay even fell on his sword after the game calling it “a shit call”.

Heroes all over the place. Amazingly, Kendrick Bourne overcame his terrible game last week to go for 10 and 142 as he gashed the Rams secondary all over the place. The one drop did kill a drive however. Recent practice squad grad Trevis Gipson recovered a botched pitch by Blake Corum to thwart a deep drive by LA, and Alfred Collins had a strip/recovery on Kyren Williams on the one yard line to kill an LA drive late in the game.

CMC had 139 yards from scrimmage, mainly on 8 catches for 82 yards (and 22 carried for 57 yards [eeeek, 2.6 per]), and Bournse of course, but Jones spread the ball out to 7 different guys. Notably, Jake Tonges with 7/41 yards and (GASP!) a TD pass on 1st and goal.

Still troubled by the lack of a running game, and the red zone badness. Shanny mixed things up on those first 2 drives, and then went back to bland bullshit fails on the next 4 red zone appearances, nearly getting Jones killed on yet another obvious 3rd down pass play on 3rd and goal.

And, after the Ram goal line fumble, Shanny went WAY conservative. 1st or 2nd down BEG for play action but instead we burned 8 seconds off the clock and allowed LA to time the score. We didn’t even try any kind of misdirection runs.

Hey 12th, did you take any pics?