THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Ask Los Angeles Rams defensive end Robert Quinn for his first memory of Monday Night Football and nothing comes to mind.Oh shoot. Yeah, you got me stumped on that one, Quinn said.Coach Jeff Fisher remembers its infancy when the antics of Howard Cosell and Don Meredith captivated the nation, and it offered the only chance to see everything that happened in the NFL that week.Things have changed, Fisher said. Back in the day when Howard and Don and the rest of them were doing it, that was the only way you got to see highlights from the weekend. Now you get to see highlights moments after they happen.Playing a game on Monday night is no longer a novelty, the television broadcast accompanying it no longer a cultural phenomenon, but the Rams season opener at the San Francisco 49ers will mean plenty to linebacker Cory Littleton.`Monday Night Football, everybody in America watching it, Littleton said. Its exciting.Littleton seemed set for a limited role this season as an undrafted free agent from Washington before the Rams cut veteran Akeem Ayers last week. When Ayers signed with the Indianapolis Colts, it all but locked the Rams into using five defensive backs as their primary personnel package with Littleton backing up starting hybrid linebacker-safety Mark Barron.All you can do is just keep pushing forward, Littleton said. Yeah, there might be changes around you, but ultimately you cant control that.It doesnt really change anything for us, added middle linebacker Alec Ogletree. We feel like we played mostly nickel throughout the whole season last year, and most teams do play nickel more because it is a passing league.Littleton thrived as an outside linebacker as the Huskies led the Pac-12 in points and yards allowed last season. He had 65 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and six sacks as a senior, showing good range and versatility that has carried over through this summer.Littleton wasnt sure he would get the opportunity because of a rule that limits the contact rookies can have with their teams until the end of the academic year. For schools on the quarter system, including Washington, rookies like Littleton had to wait until well into June to participate in conditioning workouts or organized team activities. That forced Littleton to quickly familiarize himself with a new team and scheme.Littleton said the coaches were understanding, but that it was just a crappy situation.There was nothing I could do about it, Littleton said. Try to learn and do everything as fast as possible, thats the only thing I could do.Littletons quick maturation actually seemed to strengthen his case for making the final roster. After recording three tackles in the Rams second preseason game, Littleton believed for the first time that he could make the team.Cory really didnt get to do much until he got to training camp, so I think that speaks volumes for him because he had a short period of time and he showed us what he can do, coach Jeff Fisher said.On Monday night, Littleton will go from watching the game to playing in it.Every time we go to a new stadium its just like Im a little kid in a candy store with a big old smile on my face because these are the places I have been seeing on TV for years or these are the players I have been seeing on TV for years or this is my favorite player, Littleton said. Its just a great experience.---Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFLVapormax 97 Donna . It says Pocklingtons lawyer filed the appeal Friday in a California court. 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Vapormax Saldi . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration.ALAMEDA, Calif. --?Oakland Raiders cornerback Sean Smith, who signed a $40 million free-agent contract with Oakland this offseason, owned up to his poor play which led to his second-half benching in Sundays season-opening 35-34 win at the New Orleans Saints.The benching came after he was burned by Brandin Cooks for a 98-yard touchdown, the longest pass play in Saints franchise history.I was getting killed, Smith told reporters Tuesday at the Raiders facility. Im not going to lie to you. It was getting bad out there. I was costing our team points so Coach did what he had to do.I would have loved to stay in, fight that thing out, but Coach made the decision which was best for the team, so Im going to ride with it.Raiders coach Jack Del Rio acknowledged giving Smith a talk on the sidelines.I said, Hey, youve got to own up to that, Del Rio said. That certainly wasnt anywhere near where it needed to be and I know youll bounce back. Be ready to face the music because theyre going to be coming at you.Hes a big boy. Hell bounce back. Hes going to be a good player for us ... [his play] was not what we need and he knows that.Per Pro Football Focus, Smith gave up four receptions on six targets for 183 yards (the most surrendered by a cornerback on Kickoff Weekend) and his yards per cover snap of 6.78 was the second worst of any cornerback in Week 1. The QB rating for passes thrown into Smiths coverage was 149.3, also the second worst by any corner in the league last week.It all added up to an overall grade of 40.3, which ranked 87th among cornerbacks.Three big receptions allowed essentially doomed Smith, who gave up a combined 172 yards on those catches in the Superdome after starting strong with a pass breakup underneath and a tackle. But the Saints found him lacking on deeper balls to smaller receivers.Such as the 49-yarder to Willie Snead. The 25-yarder to Michael Thomas. And then, the 98-yarder to Cooks, which came with 7:52 remaining in the third quarter when Smith failed to bump or jam Cooks at the line of scrimmage.Smith, at 6-feet-3, 220 pounds, is the biggest cornerback in the league, but the Saints used their much smaller wideouts to get by him.Just made some bad decisions, Smith said. Poor technique, cost our team.Up next, the Atlanta Falcons and the speedy but bigger Julio Jones, who is also 6-3, 220 pounds.dddddddddddd Might the Raiders have to alter their coverage scheme by giving Smith help with a safety, and could the Falcons send Jones his way after he caught four passes for 66 yards and a TD in Atlantas 31-24 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?Julios going to get the ball regardless of who [the opposing cornerback] is, Smith said. So you always have to be worried about that going in and facing that team.Del Rio did say that Smith would start this weekend in the Raiders home opener, and Smith acknowledged that he must have a short memory before lining up against Atlanta.Being an eighth-year veteran should help him move on quickly, he said.Its one game, he said of the debacle in New Orleans, which reminded many Raiders fans of DeAngelo Halls brutal debut for the Raiders in 2008. Hall was cut following eight games that year after he signed a seven-year, $72 million contract with Oakland.Its not going to define myself or my career or this season, Smith said. It was a bad day. ... Its just like any job. I had a bad day at work and Ill come back the next day and get ready to roll for Week 2.You play long enough, youre going to have days like that.Raiders quarterback Derek Carr defended Smith after the game.I told Sean, I said, Hey, man, you are one of the best cornerbacks Ive ever played in my life, Carr said. Anyone wants to challenge that, we can go back and watch the film and see that he is a shutdown-type corner. He really is. Hes so smart, and some days its going to be like that. Ive been there. Against Kansas City last year I threw three picks in the second half.None, though, were by Smith, who was then with the Chiefs.Weve all been there, Carr said. Its going to hurt, its going to sting, its going to be hard to sleep ... but I know him. Hes going to come back and be the same dominant guy that he is, and he will be for us.Im not worried about him, and I dont think that our fans should be either.And, as Smith said, at least the Raiders rallied to win after trailing by 14 points following Cooks long TD over him.That, Smith said of a loss, would have been a rough plane ride home. ' ' '