Week 7 Picks: 49ers-Falcons and Rams-Raiders Predictions

Let's go to 49ers and Falcons here. What do you think of this one? Are the 49ers this good? Can they keep overcoming all these injuries? I certainly don't think Mike Evans is going to play this week. He looked like a shell of himself before exiting in the first half last week. They get a bye next week. No real reason to do that. You've got Christian Kirk maybe coming back. Deshaun Stroud's going to be there. This is smoke and mirrors, but it's Kyle Shanahan's smoke and mirrors. I don't know how they're doing it, but I'm terrified to pick against them. Michael Penix trending in the right direction for Atlanta. He just gets the ball to his dudes. Like, that's a pretty simple plan. But John Robinson and Drake London doing all the eating over there. They almost came all the way back last week. Kyle Pitts gets involved late. I'm not really buying either one of these teams to kind of be as good as we've seen. But at this point, I can't bet against Kyle Shanahan. I kind of refuse to do it at this point. So I'm going to go the 49ers, even though the math and the rosters don't really line up. Man, that 49er team, I can't believe they're 6-0 on the season with, like you said, all the injuries. Hey, a real interesting ball game here, man. The Rams and the Raiders here. Boy, you told me there's no way people had 2-4 on their bingo card, and the Raiders 3-3 with the better record heading into this game. Nobody would have seen this. This is a must-win here. No for the Rams? Yeah, I mean, if you gave me two choices, the Rams were going to lose four games this season, or they were going to lose four games before Halloween. I would have said they were going to lose four games this season. This is a remarkable run here, and losing last week to the Cardinals. The Cardinals are a bad team to begin with. The Cardinals even scored a touchdown, and they beat the Rams. That is asinine to me. And now you've got Davante Adams out for two-plus months. Like, there's a lot of moving pieces here. But I do think they're still the good team that we thought they were. They were Super Bowl favorites coming into the season. They'll lose a few games. They were still the Super Bowl favorites. This is a loaded roster, but rosters don't win games. You know, the score, the point total does. I'm going to trust Matthew Stafford over Kirk Cousins because I'm a reasonable human being. I'm going to say they cover this game. Three and a half points isn't a crazy spread, even though it's in Vegas, even though this team's lost four out of six games. Give me the Rams to kind of right the ship here. I think we can agree the Raiders are trending in the wrong direction.