{"id":78387,"date":"2026-09-08T03:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/fake-wide-receivers-to-undercover-stings-did-the-49ers-have-the-wildest-nfl-preseason-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:55:01","slug":"fake-wide-receivers-to-undercover-stings-did-the-49ers-have-the-wildest-nfl-preseason-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/fake-wide-receivers-to-undercover-stings-did-the-49ers-have-the-wildest-nfl-preseason-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake wide receivers to undercover stings: did the 49ers have the wildest NFL preseason of all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of San Francisco\u2019s summer was a literal car crash. On the positive side, they have so far avoided their usual list of crushing injuries<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers have trekked to Australia for this week\u2019s NFL season opener in Melbourne. The flight time from California to Victoria is nearly the same for both teams \u2013 roughly 16 hours \u2013 but their journeys to the start of the season couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been smooth sailing for the Rams, with their collection of playmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/30\/all-time-great-aaron-donald-comes-out-of-retirement-to-rejoin-stacked-la-rams\">growing by the day<\/a>. It\u2019s a very different story for the 49ers: facing Aaron Donald and Myles Garrett, not to mention the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks, at least twice this season is the least of their problems. Their offseason has been more than lightly turbulent: it\u2019s been batshit crazy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/08\/san-francisco-49ers-jed-york-daejon-love-nfl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of San Francisco\u2019s summer was a literal car crash. On the positive side, they have so far avoided their usual list of crushing injuries The Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers have trekked to Australia for this week\u2019s NFL season opener in Melbourne. The flight time from California to Victoria is &#8230; <a title=\"Fake wide receivers to undercover stings: did the 49ers have the wildest NFL preseason of all time?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/fake-wide-receivers-to-undercover-stings-did-the-49ers-have-the-wildest-nfl-preseason-of-all-time\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fake wide receivers to undercover stings: did the 49ers have the wildest NFL preseason of all time?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}