{"id":1816,"date":"2026-08-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/preview-sf-at-lar-week-1-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:00:00","slug":"preview-sf-at-lar-week-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/preview-sf-at-lar-week-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 preview: 49ers at Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>San Francisco 49ers travel to Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, VIC for the opening week of the 2026 season, kick-off Friday 11 September at 00:35 UTC, live on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco 49ers finished the 2025 season 12-5 and took the 6th seed in the NFC. Los Angeles Rams finished 12-5 and took the 5th seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening line has it at LAR -3.5 with a total of 48.5, which tells you the market is treating this as a home-field game rather than a mismatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the hash marks. Formation into the boundary changed the leverage on the outside receivers and the safety help never rotated in time, which is how a good secondary gives up a bad afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean McVay is in charge on the home sideline, with Kyle Shanahan opposite him. Week one form is famously unreliable, but the openers still set the tone for a division race that runs to January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco 49ers open at Melbourne Cricket Ground, live on Netflix. Two clubs that finished 12-5 and 12-5 meet on the first weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[99,56,53,98],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","tag-2026-season","tag-49ers","tag-rams","tag-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}