EL SEGUNDO — Sometimes you only need a small sample to buy in.

When you’d be out grocery shopping, say, and someone would offer you a chocolate baton wafer. Or a pineapple meatball. Or a sip of smoothie. Or, even better, a delectable victory over the defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Yeah, cooking up a win against the NFL’s it team for the first time in eight tries is a way to make people want to come back for more. Give folks a taste of a team capable of dissecting a top defense, all systems go, for a type of tantalizing 27-21 victory . That will promote belief in your team entering Week 2 of Year 2 under head coach Jim Harbaugh and his offensive coordinator Greg Roman.

Maybe you weren’t initially sold on Roman joining forces with Justin Herbert last season. Especially con

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