The 49ers lost their second straight game, dropping to 1-2 on the season, via an astounding collapse in Los Angeles against the Rams for a 27-24 loss.
San Francisco led by 14 points twice in the game and 10 points in the fourth quarter, holding an advantage for more than 54 minutes.
The Rams scored on their final four drives of the game, including a field goal and a touchdown within the game’s final two minutes after a missed 55-yard field goal try by Jake Moody.
Jauan Jennings was an ultra-bright spot for the 49ers, making 11 catches for 175 yards and three touchdowns. The 49ers recorded six drops as a team, including one by Ronnie Bell on a pass that might would have put them in range to try a winning field goal in the final seconds.
Brock Purdy completed 22-of-30 passes for 292 yards and those three touchdowns to Jennings. He was sacked once, losing a fumble before halftime.
Jordan Mason led the 49ers in rushing with 77 yards on 19 carries. Kyren Williams scored three times for the Rams, twice on the ground (24 attempts for 89 yards) and once on a 15-yard catch-and-run.
Kyle Shanahan
On his message to the team:
Just how disappointing of a loss that was. I know everyone was pissed without them having to tell me. And we should be. When you have a game like that where you feel you have every chance to win and you don’t get it done, those are usually the most disappointing ones.
On Purdy:
It seemed like Brock played his ass off from what I saw. He made a bunch of big plays He took some good shots down the field It was tough to not come up with that one on the last drive, especially after missing that field goal. When stuff wasn’t there, he did a hell of a job scrambling, making off-schedule plays.
On Bell’s drop:
Yeah, anybody does. There’s other catches in the game that you hope it doesn’t have to come down to that. Ronnie would say the same thing.
On putting Bell in the game:
There’s five in the game. We’re rotation a lot of guys in there, and he was the guy out there. Chris Conley got that earlier in the same, but those three receivers we have up, Ronnie’s been having a hell of a camp. Had a hell of a week in practice, but he’s got to come down with that catch.
On Jennings:
Jauan was unbelievable. I think the numbers show it, but more than. the number, hew was a warrior the whole game. He’s always like that. Got a lot more opportunities today and was automatic on every single one, and even some bad looks when I didn’t know if the ball should go there. Quickly saw after that that they weren’t going to take that away from Jauan. He was very inspiring today.
On the failure to hold onto the lead and win:
We could have ended it on offense, defense or special teams. When all three take their turns there at the end, those are the most frustrating ones.
On kicking the 55-yarder:
There was no consideration. It was fourth-and-5, maybe fourth-and-6, but it was about making it a two-score game. I felt great about him. I don’t feel much different from that distance to 48, he’s been really good with that stuff.
On Javon Hargrave’s triceps injury:
Always when you hear triceps, you think tears and stuff, but from what they told me, they felt it was more of a contusion and stuff. So that’s better news.
Nick Bosa
On the loss:
Plenty of opportunities. I can only speak for myself and it wasn’t good enough. We got to close them out when we have a chance.
On whether he felt they were the better team:
It just doesn’t matter when you lose.
On whether this could be a rough run after a rough start:
It’s definitely a rough start but there’s a ton of football to be played. We’ve been through some tough stretches before but we just have to stay together. We have the guys to do it.
On how to lead the team back:
I think we have to feel the loss for sure. We can’t just move on and act like it’s fine. You feel the loss and you just start stacking week by week.
On playing better:
No matter how talented you think you are, you have to play good on Sunday. We’ve been practicing great. It’s not that, it’s just we have to understand what teams are trying to do to us and adjust to it.
On his injury:
I was planning on playing. I definitely wanted to see how it felt, but I think I made out good. … I think it’s more of an oblique than a rib. it actually happened in the Vikings game, and then I aggravated it in practice pretty good.
Brock Purdy
On missed opportunity:
We have a good enough team to finish out a game pretty early and put up points every drive offensively. We’re all pretty frustrated. So we just gotta watch the film, get better from it.
On not putting the game away:
I feel like there were some third downs and stuff, just to stay on the field early on in the game, and then the two-minute right before half — there’s just plays for me where it’s like ‘All right, as an offense, we got to execute and stay on the field, especially when we have momentum.’ And then, you let them play around for a little bit, give them life and then it comes down to a close game like that. Anything can happen at that point.
On Jennings:
He’s a dog, man. Absolutely love Jauan. Just the way he comes in every day, and brings energy to our offense, man, with some huge plays and sparks energy. Just his love for the game, ma, you can see it and you feel it when you’re on the field with him. So I absolutely love that guy. I’ll go to war with him any day of the week.
On how to move forward:
Obviously it’s such a league where you have to turn the page and get ready for the next opponent, but for us it’s like yeah, you really have to look at the film and understand, what did I not do well? What did I do well? What can I continue to get better at? Because it’s going to show up again in the NFL.
On Bell:
He’s a young guy. I love him, man. We’ve all got Ronnie’s back, so we’re going to continue to need him and build him up. We’re all in this together. It’s a team sport, so it’s not one player, one play here. It’s all of them put together.
Fred Warner
On the loss:
It was unacceptable. We can’t do that. We can’t beat ourselves, can’t make those types of mistakes. Again, all three phases gotta play better. We’ll look at the tape, fix it and move on.
On whether this can be a lesson:
Ideally, you don’t want that lesson, right? You want to feel like you got the right guys in the group, you got enough veteran leadership to understand situations and knowing when to put them away. Obviously I put a lot on the defense, especially in uncertain moments to put them away and we were unable to do that.
On whether the team may be too confident:
Honestly, no. I feel like we got the right guys in the building. It’s never a matter of like, man, we were feeling ourselves, thinking that we don’t have to continue to work hard and earn it every single Sunday.
On Williams’ three-TD day:
I got to watch the film. It didn’t feel like we really gave him much of a contest. I feel like a lot of them were walk-ins. We got to be better down there.
