Analyzing the 49ers' blowout of the Rams

The San Francisco 49ers might have played the most uninteresting 35-0 blowout in team history. Granted, it is always exciting to see the defense and special teams put up points, but somehow, it just seemed real slow. Well, that was the first half. The second half did get better for the 49ers and looking at their win as a whole, we know that the source of points doesn't always have to come from the offense.

"It's a total team win, without a doubt," said QB Shaun Hill. "The defense stepped up and got points. Special teams, if I'm not mistaken, made it 7-0. That's huge. Every unit is pitching in, even though offensively we didn't do as good as we would have liked to have done. The team came away with a 35-0 win, and that's all that matters."

And for Hill, it was important to take the momentum from the defense to get the offense going.

"Anytime you see your teammates out there doing great things, I think it feeds the whole team, the crowd, the fans. It was kind of a little quiet out there and a little bit, kind of lull there in the first half, and then finally we got it going, stuck with it. The crowd got into it. We got into it and started putting up some points and turning the game in our favor."

As Hill mentioned, the first score of the game came off of LB Scott McKillop's special teams fumble recovery in the end zone. McKillop reflects on his first career touchdown.

"Right place, right time, but protection covered, it bounced off of one of their gunners and I jumped on the ball, with a little help from Jeff Ulbrich in the pile, but it was an important way to start off. In the past couple weeks we haven't been performing as well on special teams as we'd like to, so that was one of the things that myself and my fellow special teamers took upon ourselves to perform a little bit better."

The 49ers finally got into the swing of things and would score two touchdowns in the second half. Despite playing the Rams, the 49ers did exactly what they needed to do to estbalish themselves as the team to beat in the division. TE Vernon Davis feels that the team has gotten better and is capable of winning more games down the stretch.

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