49ers Win First Home Game In More Than A Year, 31-10 Over Rams

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — After a astir two-month agelong that featured 1 triumph and acold excessively galore disappointments, the San Francisco 49ers were moving retired of clip to found an individuality this season.

An opening 18-play touchdown thrust against the rival Los Angeles Rams was a beauteous bully start.

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Jimmy Garoppolo capped that agelong thrust with the archetypal of his two touchdown passes, Jimmie Ward returned 1 of his 2 first-quarter interceptions for different people and the 49ers bushed the Rams 31-10 connected Monday nighttime for their archetypal location triumph successful much than a year.

“It got america into a bushed for sure,” Garoppolo said. “That’s the mode we privation to bash it. Just moving the ball, converting connected 3rd down and past people astatine the end. I don’t privation to accidental it took their psyche distant but it decidedly did something.”

The Niners (4-5) had mislaid 4 of 5 games and were successful information of falling retired of the playoff contention earlier putting unneurotic a implicit show successful their 5th consecutive triumph against the Rams (7-3).

Garoppolo threw TD passes to George Kittle and Deebo Samuel, Samuel besides ran for a people and Ward delivered the large plays defensively to springiness San Francisco its 2nd location triumph successful the past 2 seasons. The different besides came against the Rams connected Oct. 18, 2020.

It each started connected the ground, wherever manager Kyle Shanahan had acceptable an audacious extremity of 40 carries that the Niners exceeded with 44 runs for 156 yards.

“I astir regretted it due to the fact that it’s pugnacious to do,” Shanahan said. “I’m gladsome I acceptable it. We came done with it. It’s a immense squad goal.”

San Francisco had its astir rushes successful a regular-season crippled successful 9 years. The Niners utilized a akin look 2 years agone erstwhile they made it to the Super Bowl.

Last week, San Francisco had 11 carries for 39 yards successful a 31-17 nonaccomplishment to Arizona.

“If you privation to found immoderate benignant of dominance, particularly successful the trenches, I deliberation that is necessary,” near tackle Trent Williams said. “You got to tally the shot and got to marque your opponents respect it.”

The Niners sealed the crippled erstwhile Garoppolo connected connected a 40-yard TD to Samuel connected fourth-and-6 aboriginal successful the 4th fourth that made it 31-7.

Garoppolo finished 15 for 19 for 182 yards and the 2 TDs.

The Rams mislaid for the 2nd consecutive week with Matthew Stafford erstwhile again throwing 2 interceptions, including 1 returned for a touchdown.

Los Angeles struggled to get into immoderate bushed offensively successful the archetypal crippled aft receiver Robert Woods went down with a season-ending genu wounded past week successful practice.

“This was a humbling nighttime for america arsenic a team, and a large accidental for america to beryllium capable to instrumentality a heavy breath, measurement away, look astatine the things that we request to correct, peculiarly offensively implicit the past mates of weeks,” manager Sean McVay said.

Odell Beckham Jr. made his Los Angeles debut aft signing past week but had lone 2 catches for 18 yards.

Recently acquired borderline rusher Von Miller besides played for the archetypal clip with the Rams and had 3 tackles but didn’t enactment unit connected Garoppolo.

Stafford went 26 for 41 for 243 yards with 1 TD, 2 interceptions and astir a 3rd that K’Waun Williams trapped connected his backside only to person it wiped disconnected by a penalty.

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TAKE IT AWAY

Ward intercepted Stafford connected Los Angeles’ archetypal 2 drives of the crippled aft coming into the nighttime with 2 INTs successful 85 games and nary since 2016.

The archetypal came connected a heavy heave by Stafford to Beckham that went close to Ward. The adjacent came connected a speedy propulsion that choky extremity Tyler Higbee bobbled close into Ward’s hands, starring to a 27-yard TD return.

Ward became the seventh subordinate since 2000 with 2 interceptions, including a pick-6, successful the archetypal quarter.

KEEP IT AWAY

The Niners did a bully occupation keeping the shot distant from Stafford successful the archetypal half. They had an 18-play, 93-yard thrust that took 11:03 disconnected the timepiece aft Ward’s archetypal interception. It was capped by an 8-yard TD walk from Garoppolo to Kittle.

That was the 2nd opening thrust of astatine slightest 18 plays successful the past 8 seasons, with Houston doing it earlier this twelvemonth against New England.

San Francisco past had an 11-play, 91-yard thrust connected it 2nd possession capped by Samuel’s 8-yard run to instrumentality a 21-7 lead.

FAKE IT

McVay made a funny determination erstwhile helium called for a fake tract goal on fourth-and-8 from the 17 with 18 seconds near successful the archetypal half.

Holder Johnny Hekker completed a 2-yard walk to Kendall Blanton that was good abbreviated of the archetypal down.

INJURED

Rams: RB Darrell Henderson near successful archetypal 4th to beryllium evaluated for a concussion but returned precocious successful the archetypal half.

49ers: RT Jaylon Moore (knee) near the crippled successful the archetypal half.

UP NEXT

Rams: Los Angeles has a bye adjacent week earlier visiting Green Bay connected Nov. 28

49ers: Visit Jacksonville connected Sunday.

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