It was a very mediocre performance, but he did narrowly pull his team out with a victory over the Arizona Cardinals. However, his performance is going to be marred but the horrific botched call by the replacement referees that almost decided the game. Thankfully it did not.After struggling with his conditioning in the past, Brooks' attempts to better himself as a player were obvious in 2011. He played in 16 games for the first time in his career and logged 1,123 defensive snaps in 2011, ranking fourth on the team. He played 485 snaps in 2010 and 262 in 2009 in parttime duty..

We'll try our best to not get that feeling again."That won't be easy considering the 49ers' postseason road woes. They'll try Sunday to snap a fivegame road playoff skid that dates to a 283 conference title game win at Chicago on Jan. 8, 1989 one of only two postseason victories away from home in franchise history."It's a big task," said Harbaugh, who was a member of that Bears team th