It's been obviously very ugly for the Rams over the last three games, with incredibly bad stretches of football. With the Bears coming to St. Louis this week, coach Jim Haslett has to try and find a way to get his team to be competitive for four quarters.

Asked what has gone wrong, Haslett said. "We have had five turnovers in one half and three in another. If you look at the stats the second half, it wasn't like San Francisco was cashing it in on us doing a double reverses and throwing the ball and everything else. We scored 13 and they scored none. They had 67 yards of offense in the second half on 38 plays and we had 200 yards of offense. We had 200 in the first half and (quarterback) Marc (Bulger) was 12-19 in the first half.

After Shaun Hill flung himself across the goal line to score the third touchdown in the 49ers' 28-point second quarter, he flipped the ball to center Eric Heitmann for the celebratory spike. Humbled and educated by several seasons as a backup, Hill just doesn't see himself as an extraordinary Joe -- even though Joe Montana is the only other San Francisco quarterback who ever did what Hill...

They are 675 pounds of men in the middle, two massive human detour signs that force running backs in another direction. Nose tackles Kris Jenkins of the New York Jets and Vince Wilfork of the New England Patriots are there to make sure much smaller players get stopped soon after they take a handoff. Two huge men -- the relatively svelte Wilfork is about 25 pounds lighter -- with a big job.

Brett Favre hung out on the New York Jets' sideline after calling it an early day, relishing a rout that was unlike any other in franchise history. "It's proof positive of what this team is capable of being," Favre said. The dominant Jets took advantage of every mistake by the St. Louis Rams, making their 47-3 rout Sunday look more like a scrimmage than an NFL game.