"After the 49ers sprinted out of the gates and sleepwalked to the finish in a not-so-stylish 20-10 win over Cleveland on Sunday, head coach Jim Harbaugh had no trouble controlling his emotions.
Two weeks after forcefully lifting up his sweatshirt moments before his adrenaline-fueled handshake with Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, Harbaugh forgot to perform his postgame untucking, which signals that work is over and it's time to celebrate.
In the locker room, nose tackle Ricky Jean Francois, perhaps channeling his head coach, acknowledged that the 49ers' latest victory left them thinking more about the work that lies ahead.
"We won it," Jean Francois said. "We won it an ugly way. But that's what Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are for - to go back and clean everything up.""