The 49ers (3-1) travel to Trans World Dome for a 1:00 ET kickoff against the St. Louis Rams (3-0), the first meeting of the year against the conference's most prolific offense.
Kurt Warner, the backup who took over for the injured Trent Green in the preseason, has thrown 11 touchdowns across the first three games. Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt and Az-Zahir Hakim are the receivers; Marshall Faulk is the back. The Rams average 33 points per game.[1][2]
Kurt Warner's three-game start at Trans World Dome is the kind of opening month no NFC team's defensive coordinator wants to study on film. Eleven touchdowns. Six interceptions thrown into him by the visiting Falcons. A Rams team that has not been written into the conference's top-three projection in any preseason magazine in three years. The 49ers' Sunday issue is structural: the front rotation against Faulk, the secondary against Bruce. The 49ers' coverage was the league's seventh-best in 1998.
Week 5 has the Rams hosting the 49ers plus a slate where the NFC's wild-card race is beginning to clarify. The Vikings are 3-1; the Bucs 3-1; the Falcons 1-3. The AFC has the Dolphins at 4-0. Inside the NFC West the Rams are 3-0, the 49ers 3-1, the Falcons 1-3, the Saints 1-3, the Cardinals 1-3. The Sunday-night game is Pittsburgh at Buffalo. The Sunday at Trans World Dome is the conference's only matchup of two teams in the top half of the divisional standings.
Through four games the 49ers sit at 3-1 with a minus 15 point differential. Garcia averages 224 passing yards per game across two starts. Garner averages 71 rushing yards per game and 5.2 a carry. Owens has 19 catches for 245 across four. The Rams enter at 3-0 with Warner throwing for an average of 286 yards and 3.7 touchdowns per game; Faulk averages 134 from scrimmage. Vegas opens the Rams as 8-point home favorites.
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Jaguars | 3-1 | -- |
| Tennessee Titans | 3-1 | -- |
| Baltimore Ravens | 2-2 | -- |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 2-2 | -- |
| Cincinnati Bengals | 0-4 | -- |
| Cleveland Browns | 0-4 | -- |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| New England Patriots | 4-0 | -- |
| Buffalo Bills | 3-1 | -- |
| Indianapolis Colts | 2-1 | -- |
| Miami Dolphins | 2-1 | -- |
| New York Jets | 1-3 | -- |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Seahawks | 3-1 | -- |
| San Diego Chargers | 2-1 | -- |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 2-2 | -- |
| Oakland Raiders | 2-2 | -- |
| Denver Broncos | 0-4 | -- |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| St. Louis Rams | 3-0 | -- |
| San Francisco 49ers | 3-1 | -- |
| New Orleans Saints | 1-2 | -- |
| Carolina Panthers | 1-3 | -- |
| Atlanta Falcons | 0-4 | -- |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Detroit Lions | 2-1 | -- |
| Green Bay Packers | 2-1 | -- |
| Chicago Bears | 2-2 | -- |
| Minnesota Vikings | 2-2 | -- |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 2-2 | -- |
| Team | Rec | Strk |
|---|---|---|
| Dallas Cowboys | 3-0 | -- |
| Washington Redskins | 3-1 | -- |
| New York Giants | 2-2 | -- |
| Arizona Cardinals | 1-3 | -- |
| Philadelphia Eagles | 0-4 | -- |
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| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Rams | Isaac Bruce 13 yard pass from Kurt Warner ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 0-7 |
| Rams | Isaac Bruce 5 yard pass from Kurt Warner ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 0-14 |
| 49ers | Wade Richey 42 yard field goal | 3-14 |
| Rams | Isaac Bruce 45 yard pass from Kurt Warner ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 3-21 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 49ers | Lawrence Phillips 2 yard rush ( Wade Richey kick) | 10-21 |
| Rams | Jeff Robinson 22 yard pass from Kurt Warner ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 10-28 |
| 49ers | Junior Bryant defensive fumble recovery in end zone ( Wade Richey kick) | 17-28 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 49ers | Wade Richey 43 yard field goal | 20-28 |
| Rams | Tony Horne 97 yard kickoff return ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 20-35 |
| Team | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Rams | Isaac Bruce 42 yard pass from Kurt Warner ( Jeff Wilkins kick) | 20-42 |
Kurt Warner threw for 323 yards and five touchdowns including four to Isaac Bruce and the St. Louis Rams beat the 49ers 42-20 at Trans World Dome to drop San Francisco to 3-2. Jeff Garcia went 22 of 36 for 233 yards and three interceptions. Charlie Garner ran for 52 and caught five for 57. Bruce caught 5 for 134 and four touchdowns. Marshall Faulk added 47 rushing. The Rams led 28-3 at halftime.[1][2]
Isaac Bruce caught four touchdowns. Kurt Warner threw five. The Rams scored on six of seven first-half possessions. The 49ers' defense, the league's seventh-best by yardage entering Sunday, produced the worst single-game line of the Mariucci tenure: 461 total yards, 28 first downs, no turnovers.
Garcia, in his first road start since Calgary, threw three interceptions on 36 dropbacks. The pocket gave him 2.4 seconds on the average play. Lawrence Phillips ran for 19. Charlie Garner ran for 52. The two pieces of the running game that produced 100-yard afternoons in three of the first four games combined for 71 against a Rams front that had not generated this kind of run-stopping production through three weeks.
Rams 42, 49ers 20. Margin: minus 22. Record: 3-2, minus 37 differential.
A 42-20 road loss at Trans World Dome. The 49ers fall to 3-2 with the worst single-game defensive line of the Mariucci tenure.
How it unfolded
The Rams opened with the first Bruce touchdown to take a 7-0 lead, then the second Bruce touchdown to make it 14-0 before the 49ers ran their fifth offensive play. The second quarter produced two more touchdowns: the third Bruce score and a Robert Holcombe rushing touchdown to push the lead to 28-3 at halftime. The 49ers added a Garner touchdown reception in the third quarter and a fourth-quarter Garcia interception that the Rams converted into the fourth Bruce touchdown to make it 35-10. The 49ers added a closing touchdown run from Garcia to make the final 42-20.
The turning point
The second Bruce touchdown. With the 49ers having punted on their opening two possessions and the secondary having allowed two completions of 30-plus, the Rams' offense was finding the deep field at will. The 14-0 cushion before the 49ers had run their fifth play put the visitors in a posture they could not escape against Warner's accuracy.
By the numbers
| Player | C/A | Yds | TD | Int | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO | |||||
| Jeff Garcia | 22/36 | 233 | 0 | 3 | |
| STL | |||||
| Kurt Warner | 20/23 | 323 | 5 | 1 | |
| Player | Att | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO | ||||
| Charlie Garner | 13 | 52 | 0 | 31 |
| Lawrence Phillips | 4 | 9 | 1 | 6 |
| Jeff Garcia | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Fred Beasley | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Jerry Rice #80 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| STL | ||||
| Robert Holcombe | 6 | 47 | 0 | 24 |
| Justin Watson | 11 | 46 | 0 | 13 |
| Kurt Warner | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Marshall Faulk | 7 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| James Hodgins | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Paul Justin | 2 | -2 | 0 | -1 |
| Player | Rec | Yds | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO | ||||
| Terrell Owens | 6 | 60 | 0 | 21 |
| Charlie Garner | 5 | 57 | 0 | 30 |
| J.J. Stokes | 4 | 54 | 0 | 19 |
| Jerry Rice #80 | 4 | 42 | 0 | 19 |
| Lawrence Phillips | 2 | 11 | 0 | 6 |
| Fred Beasley | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| STL | ||||
| Isaac Bruce | 5 | 134 | 4 | 45 |
| Torry Holt | 3 | 67 | 0 | 49 |
| Marshall Faulk | 4 | 38 | 0 | 23 |
| Jeff Robinson | 2 | 31 | 1 | 22 |
| Az-Zahir Hakim | 2 | 22 | 0 | 19 |
| Robert Holcombe | 2 | 15 | 0 | 13 |
| James Hodgins | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ricky Proehl | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
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