Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Waiting to see the response 
There is literally one thing they have over the 49ers. The Stafford trade. That's it.
In order to make that trade, not only did they find themselves in a perfect situation with one of their former personnel guys taking over the GM job with the Lions but the fact that he loved Jared Goff and they were able to leverage him as part of the trade.
They don't win the SB without Stafford. In fact without him McVay may be retired right now and Snead likely out of a job.
But these guys will go through gold medal worthy olympic level mental gymnastics to pretend Stafford would've easily been a 49er if Shanahan simply didn't go out to dinner that night.
3 times the 49ers had a 3 point lead in that 2023 SB in the 4th quarter or OT. The defense failed to stop them to give Shanahan and the 49ers a SB that season.
Rams got a gift of a call to help their offense and then saw Aaron Donald stop the Bengals with a 3 point lead to win it. Now suddenly McVay and the Rams are running circles around Shanahan and the 49ers.
Rams got a 10-7 Bengals team that had no business being in the SB.
Offense totally dependent on their QB and passing game with a piss poor OL and mediocre running game with a mid level defense. Nowhere near the same level of opponent as we've had to face and they really only made it after Tartt's drop and our inability to convert on 2nd and 1.
None of those had to do with Shanahan but I know these guys don't care.