Sleepy Rams look little like Super Bowl favorite as they get blasted by 49ers in Australia - Yahoo Sports

Jet lag begins the season 1-0. The Los Angeles Rams' travel plan to Australia was discussed often this week, and we'll never know for sure how much that contributed to a poor performance in a season-opening 27-7 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in front of 100,021 fans at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The 49ers deserve credit for executing well and beating the Rams. The 49ers also deserve credit for a plan that had them spend a week in Melbourne acclimating themselves for Thursday's game, which was actually on Friday morning in Australia. The Rams showed up the day before the game and looked very little like the Super Bowl favorite they had been touted to be all offseason. They looked tired. "Sometimes sports can humble you and today was one of those days," Rams head coach Sean McVay told reporters postgame. "I make no excuses.