How on earth did the 49ers win that game?

How on earth does a team that can’t consistently run the ball or pressure the passer, featuring guys off the street in the starting lineup because their roster is held together by athletic tape and sheer stubbornness, beat the Rams, arguably the best (and the least injured) team in the NFL, 26-23 in overtime on Thursday?

How on earth is this Niners team 4-1 on the season with a pristine 3-0 in the NFC West?

The answer isn’t complicated. It’s a word that makes the spreadsheet jockeys of the NFL wince, but it matters more than cap space and draft capital:

Culture.

Kyle Shanahan’s Niners have it in buckets.

It’s going to take them to the playoffs — they can play sub-.500 football the rest of the way and make it thanks to this incredible, improba

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