49ers’ Brock Purdy, Jauan Jennings, Ricky Pearsall out vs. Rams | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

49ers’ Brock Purdy, Jauan Jennings, Ricky Pearsall out vs. Rams | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Week five is here. The Rams hosting the San Francisco 49ers. Both teams are three and one. By the way, only two games this weekend involve teams with winning records. The other one is the Buccaneers and the Seahawks, which isn’t moving from 4:05 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. There was a chance it was going to slide later into the day by 90 minutes to 150 minutes. That’s two and a half hours for those of you who like me sat down and said, “What the hell’s 150 Minutes?” The Bucks and the Seahawks are wearing the badass original uniforms, too. Bucks taken on the road. Bucko Bruce is making the trip to the Pacific Northwest. That’s a pretty big deal. That should be a 425 game, not a 405 game. Both teams are three in one tonight. Both teams are three and one. The 49ers, by the way, are 2-0 in the division so far this season. Last year, they were 1 and5. Now, they’ve been besieged with injuries this year, but they’re 3-1. The Rams are 9 and3 in division games since the start of the 2023 season. Three straight wins by the Rams over the 49ers. One thing I noticed coming out of LA’s win over the Colts 2720 capped by an 88 yard touchdown pass from Matthew Stafford to 22 Outwell when the Colts had 10 defensive players on the field and moving Jared Verse all over the place. And that was a new development. Chris Schula, the defensive coordinator, told reporters earlier this week that they’d done it a couple of times, but this was full-blown Jared Verse chess piece, lining up over the center, looking at the center’s fingers, trying to time the snap to do a bull rush, flipping spots with Byron Young, creativity, and the opportunity to create mismatches and just the opportunity to strike fear in the parts of the offensive lineman who are wondering is he going to line up over me on this play. So if you watch for no other reason tonight, tune in to see what they do with number zero Jared Verse cuz he’s a force. He’s a menace in a good way for the LA Rams. Bad way for the teams that they face. M Jones is getting the start tonight because Brock Perie is out. this folks and I I’ve mentioned in the context of the reduction of overtime from 15 minutes down to 10 that the reason they did that was to prop up Thursday night football short week football at a time where there was a debate over whether or not football should continue on a Sunday to Thursday turnaround. Bucks played 73 minutes against the Raiders on a Sunday. had to play the Falcons on Thursday night. That was a thing at a time when the PR battle was still being waged over Thursday Night Football. I mentioned a few weeks ago one of the reasons Colin Coward and I had a little bit of a falling out and he hasn’t invited me on his program in years. I haven’t been sitting around turning a light on and off waiting. But but he had the commissioner on talking about Thursday Night Football, propping up Thursday Night Football, and he had the audacity to say that Thursday Night Football is actually better than Sunday football. So, one of the problems, and the NFL eventually won the PR battle with one statistic, the injury rate is the same when you play Sunday to Sunday as it is when you play Sunday to Thursday. The in-game injury rate is the same. Case closed. Boom roasted. Here’s the problem. Brock Perie is the example of the problem. He’s got a toe issue. He missed two weeks. Came back and played Sunday. The natural use of the toe aggravates it. If they were playing on Sunday, maybe he’d be able to go. No, they’re playing on Thursday. And Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, not enough time to get the toe ready to go on Thursday. That’s the problem. One of the problems of Thursday night, beyond the fact that the teams don’t have the same amount of time to prepare game plans, strategize, there’s more of a seat of the pants feel to Thursday night football. You may have players who can’t play who would have been able to play if they’d gotten a full week between games, but they don’t care. They got multiple teams now every year, Sunday to Thursday. They don’t care. At some point, once the battle was won, from a PR standpoint, it became about boosting up the Thursday night ratings, giving Amazon the best teams, the most interesting teams, even if it means multiple teams have to play on Thursday after playing on Sunday. Once you accept that the injury r the same with seven days between games versus four days between games, once you accept that, hell, do it every week. Do it all the time. Do it half the season. Play a bunch of game. Play Let’s do Thursday night simultaneous overlapping double headers. I can’t believe I said that. Let’s not do that. I did have that thought earlier in the week. You know, they could do this on Sunday nights. They could do this on Thursday nights. God, thank God they only do it on Monday nights. All right. Uh, couple of interesting facts for tonight’s games. By the way, Ricky Pearol and Jawan Jennings are both out for the 49ers tonight. That That’s not good for the 49ers. M. Jones and backup receivers. Not good. For the Rams, Rob Havstein and Tyler Higgby are doubtful. Not nearly as concerning. All due respect to those two players. For the Rams it is for the 49ers. Christian McCaffrey of the 49ers is the third player to have 60 plus rushing attempts and 30 plus catches through a team’s first four games of a season in NFL history. That’s a hell of a workload. The only others were Roger Craig of the 49ers in 1988 and Marshall Faul in 2001. Both players won offensive player of the year in those seasons. And I’m assuming somewhat somewhat riskily that those are the same years in which Craig and Faulk had a,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving. The only two to do it before McAffrey did it one of his years in Carolina. Three players in NFL history have a thousand yards rushing and a thousand yards receiving in the same season. Roger Craig, Marshall Faulk, and Christian McCaffrey. You can impress your friends tonight as you’re gathering to watch the game. Especially because the two franchises involved tonight produced two of those and one of the franchises now employs the guy who did it the other time even though he didn’t do it as a member of either team. Puka has 42 catches this season. He’s tied for the most through four games of a season in NFL history along with Michael Thomas in 2018 and Cooper Cup in 2022. With eight catches tonight, Nakua becomes the first player in league history with 50 or more catches through five games of a season in NFL history. And he just became Cooper Cup. Like Cooper Cup had that awesome year in 2021 or Yeah, it was 2021. He was on pace in 22, but 2021 was the record season when Cup was threatening the Calvin Johnson record, the single season receiving touchdown record, like everything. And then Coupe start Cooper Cup starts to fall off a little bit. He’s gone. He’s gone. Nua is the centerpiece. Two years ago, Nua was emerging. Last year, it was clear Neua is the guy. This year, Cup’s gone. And they got rid of Cup, not for a younger, cheaper player, but for an older and more expensive player in Devonte Adams. It’s hard to get Devonte Adams 22 out while other guys involved in the passing game when Nua is so reliable and Matthew Stafford leans on him so heavily. All right, that’s Thursday Night Football. Hi, it’s Mike Florio. Thanks for watching PFT on YouTube. Hit subscribe for the latest news and analysis from Pro Football

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