What Dream Team? Rams humbled, skewered and jet-lagged in flat debut | Opinion

Turns out the Los Angeles Rams won’t go undefeated after all. They won’t make us forget the Fearsome Foursome or the ’85 Bears. The Dream Team woke up to a nightmare. And no, they won’t sweep those pesky 49ers.

Yet after a thud of a season opener in the Land Down Under – drubbed, 27-7 by San Francisco – they assured themselves of a very long flight home to L.A.

Shoot, they’re lucky that it only counts as one loss, given that they lost convincingly on Thursday night and Friday morning. For all the massive hype showered on the Rams as the NFL’s offseason champs, Sean McVay & Co. absorbed a resounding wakeup call at the hands of – who else? – their dreaded NFC West rival.

The 49ers went to Australia a week before kickoff, adjusting their body clocks to the Outback environment while building up to the NFL’s unveiling at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The Rams arrived a little more than a day before the game.

Well, it sure looked like 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan one-upped McVay this time around.

“This is a humbling day for us,” summed up McVay.

Did it come down to the travel schedule and…

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