Australia travel will factor into 49ers vs. Rams
Mike Florio and Chris Simms discuss the long travel for both the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams to Australia, analyzing the factor it could play in both teams' preparation.
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Pft Live, September 3rd, six days away from the start of the 2026 regular season.
Seahawks hosting the Patriots, hanging the banner.
The next night, the 49ers and the Rams in Australia, and then a great slate of week one games- Morning there divisional games.
Incredible.
Yeah.
It's gonna be, it's gonna be a great start to the season.
49ers on their way to Australia- Now already, yeah.
And the Rams really are gonna do the Wednesday, Friday- It, it sounds like it like they did in London.
And look, it's not like they just kind of threw a dart.
Everybody's got a plan, and they have a reason for it.
Yeah.
It's just as diametrically opposed as it can possibly be.
Yeah.
One concluded, we're basically gonna move there, and the other's like, we're just gonna barnstorm in and out, and that's it.
I know.
And I think- I can't wait to see it the key isn't just the game- Yeah it's the next game.
Next game, that's what it's all about.
I That's definitely the Rams play.
The Rams are going, "We're not gonna be, like, hungover from time travel all the next week leading into week two, and not have a good week of practice, and it throw us off kilter."
The 49ers are just going, "No, we're gonna win week one, and then we'll worry about the rest of the stuff after that."
You know, I saw something like the 49ers are You know, it, it's crazy.
The 49ers are taking off on Wednesday night in, in California, and they're arriving in Australia Friday morning.
Is, is that crazy?
I mean, that really is freaking crazy when you sit and think about it.
But yeah, they're gonna get acclimated.
I had this conversation a little with Warren Sapp yesterday.
He thought the Rams approach was crazy.
He thought it was crazy to do that, and he doubted whether they would be physically ready to go off their, after that quick of a turnaround.
And he thought also, and one of his thoughts was just that, you know, players wanna If you're gonna go to a place like this, they'd like to just like have a little life, and like go around and go, "Hey, we're on this continent here, Australia.
Here's Oh, whoa, this is a great city.
This is cool."
so it's, it's, it's funny to hear the psychology of all football people right now talking about this subject.
Well, yeah.
I mean, you're in your 20s, some in their 30s.
Yeah.
You're dragging me all this way to Australia, and I don't get to go see a koala bear?
Right.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean- Yeah it's weird.
It's business trip.
Long-ass flight.
We land.
We go to the hotel.
We go play the game.
We go pack our stuff, and we fly home.
