The 49ers shut down the Rams Monday evening in a rematch of final season’s NFC Championship Sport, getting revenge to the tune of a 24-9 win.
Deebo Samuel and Talanoa Hufanga supplied the 2 spark performs, as Samuel scored on a 57-yard catch-and-run within the second quarter and Hufanga jumped a fourth-quarter display screen meant for Cooper Kupp to stretch an eight-point result in 15.
San Francisco received after Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, recording seven sacks within the win.
The Niners are actually 2-2, as are the Rams and the remainder of the NFC West.
Right here’s what the 49ers needed to say after the win:
KYLE SHANAHAN
On efficiency:
I used to be actual pleased general for our complete workforce. It was a cool method to win. We knew it will be a battle. To maintain them out of the tip zone was nice. I believed we had an opportunity to run away with it, particularly with George’s landing (that was overturned). Huf’s pick-six received us proper again at it.
On the sport:
Coming off how we had been final week, we would have liked to play good and I believed we did. Not good in any respect however undoubtedly performed higher.
On whether or not he received a really feel this week that Deebo would make an enormous play:
I all the time really feel that from Deebo, whatever the follow. He had a superb week, however he tends to do this, particularly in opposition to them.
On the landing play
It was spectacular, when the ball left the hand on the third down at first it seemed like a choose. That nook was teeing off on it … For Deebo to return down with that throw, after which he did the remaining.
On DC DeMeco Ryans
I believed DeMeco did a hell of a job mixing it up. Can’t stick to one factor in opposition to a workforce like that, in opposition to a quarterback like that.
On Garoppolo:
We didn’t convert a 3rd down final week. Jimmy got here out on the primary drive and transformed like three, made massive throws and allowed us to maintain going. He did a hell of a job on that early within the sport and received us some factors.
On Hufanga’s landing and what’s impressed him:
Not hesitating. It’s a play they run lots, that we play lots. that’s a extremely scary one simply to tee off on — you higher be proper. … Anybody that’s seen him play, he doesn’t hesitate.
On Hufanga’s sensible, quick-reacting fashion:
In the event you ask folks again at SC, that was his fashion, was related. He performs the sport very effectively and the extra guys you have got like that, the higher.
On Stafford:
He makes so many massive performs, and most of the people like that, you'll give different groups some possibilities. We used to say that about Brees. I see that with higher guys, and it’s why you have got an opportunity to make (defensive) performs.
On operating vs. Rams:
They received some guys which are robust to dam, and people safeties are likely to play just a little bit completely different in opposition to us, arising in there … They’re a troublesome workforce to run the ball in opposition to, however we had some massive ones in the present day, which I believe was the completely different.
On the protester:
I noticed Bobby Wagner take any person out. I believed it was type of cool to see.
On pulling Burford for Brunskill:
Brunskill simply received again for the primary time in a few month. He’s executed an actual good job versus these guys. Spencer’s executed a hell of a job right here too on this month.
On studying the pick-six:
We had been in man protection, I used to be locked up with the tight finish, they’ve been operating screens all evening. I noticed a unique launch.
On ideas through the play:
Turned my head, and the dropped ball in my face and never going to lie. Thought Stafford was going to catch me, not going to lie.
On what was going via his thoughts:
I ought to have been extra affected person and secured the catch. Had these performs in faculty the place I made the deal with on the play.
On his mentality:
Being round Troy (Polamalu) has been a blessing as a result of he sees it from a unique perspective. Once you do your job on a play, nice issues occur.
On shifting rapidly:
In the event you set off and don't have any hesitation, you'll be able to actually make these performs.
On the Rams:
We knew this was going to be an ice bag sport. I by no means heard that time period till I received right here, truly. Each time we play these guys, it’s a bodily matchup.
On working with Tashaun Gipson:
We’re contagious and we simply feed off one another.
FRED WARNER
On the pick-six:
It was type of that point of the sport the place one was certain to occur at one level. And naturally it was Huf … Large-time play in a big-time second.
On Hufanga:
He’s actually simply taken a maintain of his function and ran away with it.
On racking up good performances:
Each week is simply stacking days. In the event you watch the way in which we follow, you wouldn’t be stunned with how we carry out in video games. It’s a product of our preparation.
On beating the Rams within the common season:
It’s all the time simply such a decent matchup. We run related schemes on offense and on each side have such nice gamers.
On Deebo’s lengthy landing:
Each time he touches the ball, I really feel like all of us on the sideline are simply holding our breath.
On DeMeco Ryans’ playcalling:
I believe DeMeco does a fantastic job each sport. Early on, you could possibly see he was attempting to name various things to see what would work.
DEEBO SAMUEL
On his landing:
Dude simply missed the ball. My mentality is it’s simply me and the ball on the market and what occurred after that's one thing I work on on a regular basis.
On coming again after the NFC title sport loss:
We knew we fell quick final yr and we gotta stack wins. One of many issues we centered on all week lengthy was simply shifting the ball, operating the ball and changing third downs on the market.
On operating vs. catching:
I simply see it as the identical factor. With the ball in my fingers, I simply deal with every thing like a run.
On his landing to Samuel:
I noticed him driving on it so I simply didn’t wish to throw the interception. Type of gave it a ‘both Deebo will get it or nobody will’, and that’s about all I did on that play. Deebo, he’s enjoyable to observe.
On his consolation:
Each sport I’ll really feel higher and higher. The shoulder, it’s robust within the season to get it proper. We’ve received an extended season forward of us.
On whether or not final week felt longer than common after ugly loss to Denver:
Hell yeah. However if you undergo a troublesome week like that, it makes this really feel lots higher on the finish.
On this matchup:
Each time we play the Rams, it’s a dogfight.
On being aggressive vs. not turning over:
That’s the high-quality line you play. Being a quarterback, you have got plenty of duty.
On warming up within the third quarter:
Feeling good. Simply attempting to remain unfastened.
On operating:
You simply gotta be sensible if you get within the open area. It’s not likely my sturdy swimsuit, I might say, so I attempt to get down rapidly.
On the NFC Championship:
Simply watching that movie, you're feeling the feelings. Bosa talked about it the opposite day. movie is silent however watching it you return to that emotional state.
On whether or not he pays consideration to criticism of smiling and lip studying:
Not likely, if I’m being utterly trustworthy. I get a kick out of it, actually. You’re all the time going to be criticized.
On the protection:
I used to be 14-9 and it’s not that we relaxed on offense, however you're feeling so assured within the protection. I don’t see plenty of performs however the performs I do see, it’s hell on a quarterback.
NICK BOSA
On a really feel for an enormous sport:
We all the time need that massive evening, six sacks (by the d-line), however we simply attempt to concentrate on effort, doing our job and executing our assignments.
On Hufanga’s landing:
We knew it will take an enormous play like that and no higher time for Huf to make that play. We attempt to reiterate that time and again, as a result of that’s the way you win … I used to be going to go clear the way in which for him however I used to be just a little drained.
On the protection’s ceiling:
I believe it’s finest within the league. That’s type of our mindset yearly and this yr we've got the personnel to do it. Not that we haven’t up to now, however in any respect three ranges, it’s elite gamers.
On talking in regards to the NFC Championship to his teammates:
I simply watched it for the primary time this week and watched how our effort was at a unique stage. And it’s type of arduous to recreate that playoff effort in a regular-season sport. Regardless of how arduous you attempt, it appears the playoffs simply deliver it out of you however I believe with the trouble tonight in opposition to this workforce, we had been in a position to type of deliver that out.
On Hufanga:
Sensible and unimaginable blitzer. He can do something on the sector. His thoughts is his largest asset.
On sacks:
I’m nonetheless leaving a couple of on the market. One sport at a time and when you have got plenty of guys round you producing, it’s lots simpler on you.
