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At long last, the monkey is off the Rams' collective back!!!! Those of you who didn't get to see the game -- get your keister to a Sports Bar next Sunday to catch the rematch with the Falcons.

This was definitely the sweetest victory yet in the short history of the St. Louis Rams, but it wasn't without a few hiccups -- and it certainly wasn't without a cast of deserving characters who, on occasion, decided to suck.  On with the lollipops:

FRED MILLER---you gotta block lower!  Charles Haley got the best of you, and yes, they showed the replay of you getting manhandled.  You also had a false start penalty---at least you didn't have any holding penalties, like last year's RT (what was that bozo's name again?!?!)

ROLAND WILLIAMS - Roland, Roland, Roland...  You're so much bigger than Tim McDonald---all you had to do was give him a double-dose of forearm and he would have been on his can, instead of stripping Warner of the ball so Junior Bryant could fall on it in the end zone.  Oh yeah---you also dropped a perfectly catchable pass.  You've got Jeff Robinson on your heels, and he's mounting a legitimate threat to steal your starting job---that should be motivation enough.

TAJE ALLEN---First off, I gotta give you your props for that interception that put the cherry on Sunday's sundae.  Your ticket onto this list is the result of you pushing the coverage guy into Az Hakim when he was trying to field the punt.  It could have given the Rams some pretty decent field position.

JAY WILLIAMS---Your intensity is to be commended---stupidity, however, is inexcusable.  The whistle had blown the play dead, but still you had to knock helmets with the QB.  Dude, the 9ers are royalty as far as the officials are concerned---any helmet-to-helmet hit is going to draw a flag.

THE ZEBRAS---Can somebody please tell me what the hell is an "Illegal Snap"?  That one was called on Gruttadauria (how the hell does a center snap  the ball illegally?)  This flag was called during that awful drive late in the second quarter, where the O-Line drew 3 penalties (oh yeah---Orlando Pace, help yourself to a sucker for taking off a few seconds early on that same drive).

Well, that takes care of the Lollipops for this week---keep those fingers and toes crossed for 5-0!  Go Rams!!!! Pluck those dirty birds (again!!!!)