#280 ASA PLAY ON San Francisco 49ers -1 over LA Rams, Monday at 8:15 PM ET - Despite losing in the Playoff to the Rams last year 20-17, the Niners have dominated this series winning 6 straight prior to that loss. Even though they’ve won 6 of the last 7, San Francisco is in revenge mode here with the Rams eliminating them from the post season last season and then going on to win the Super Bowl. In the 2 regular season games last season, the Niners won 31-10 and home and 27-24 in LA outgaining the Rams 784 to 534 combined in those 2 meetings. The Rams are playing their 2nd straight road game after topping Arizona 20-12 last week. LA has not been impressive this year getting outgained by 40 YPG on the season. QB Stafford does not look healthy (bad elbow) and has just 4 TD’s with 5 picks on the season along with his lowest QBR since the 2014 season. The Rams are barely averaging 300 YPG (ranking 26th in the NFL) despite playing Arizona & Atlanta in 2 of their games who rank 22nd and 23rd in total defense. Now they face a SF defense that has been great giving up just 3.9 YPPG (1st) and 227 YPG (2nd). The Niners have allowed just 37 points in 3 games and they’ve outgained all 3 opponents. They are 4th in the NFL in YPP differential at +1.2 while LA sits at 15th at +0.1. Despite that SF is just 1-2 SU this season losing @ Chicago in the opener in a monsoon despite outgaining the Bears by +127 yards. Last week the played very poorly on offense vs Denver in an 11-10 loss with the Broncos scoring late to get the win. This is a huge game for the Niners as they can’t afford to drop to 1-3. Lay the small number.