{"id":3093,"date":"2008-12-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/49ers-rams-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:00:00","slug":"49ers-rams-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/49ers-rams-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers-Rams Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Sunday when the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 49ers and the St. Louis Rams meet at Edward Jones Dome. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the 49ers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 43. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The 49ers lost to <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 14-9 as a 5.5-point underdog last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (41). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Shaun Hill threw for 233 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions for <st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Isaac Bruce caught seven passes for 71 yards. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Rams lost to <st1:City><st1:place>Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 23-20 as a 1.5-point underdog last week. The combined score caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (43). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Marc Bulger threw for 207 yards with a touchdown for <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Steven Jackson rushed for 91 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 8 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-9 SU, <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:Street><st1:address>7-7 ATS <br \/>St.<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> Louis: 2-12 SU, 4-10 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">San Francisco most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the division are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 1-9<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the division are 1-9<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>San Francisco is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing St. Louis<br \/>San Francisco is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Francisco&#8217;s last 5 games when playing St. Louis<br \/>San Francisco is 4-0-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against St. Louis<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis&#8217;s last 5 games when playing San Francisco<br \/>St. Louis is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against San Francisco<br \/>St. Louis is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games when playing at home against San Francisco<br \/>St. Louis is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing San Francisco<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, December 28<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 28<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Sunday when the San Francisco 49ers and the St. Louis Rams meet at Edward Jones Dome. Oddsmakers currently have the 49ers listed as 5\u00bd-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 43. The 49ers lost to Miami 14-9 as a 5.5-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/49ers-rams-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">49ers-Rams Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}