From Playboy.com, where Willis maintains a blog:

"If the game starts at 1 p.m., I like to get there early, get into the hot tub, get my body relaxed, get it just right. I like to do my thing and don't like to be rushed. I'll get into some music on my iPod. I'll maybe start off with some gospel, then some R & B. Then rock it up a little with a song like “Eye of the Tiger” — the tune they used in the Rocky movies. It's got that inspirational side to it. Then maybe some Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” because it sneaks up on you (“I've been waiting for this moment”) and then hits you with that great drum roll. If I've got some extra time, on my iTouch I'll watch that cool clip from Any Given Sunday where the coach talks about it being a game of inches. That always works for me."

Suirvivor and Phil Collins? If this gets out it may be embarrassing; it shall never go further, I promise.

Patrick Willis Unleashed: NFL Week 16 [Playboy]
49er Patrick Willis Likes Cold Baths And Phil Collins [Sports By Brooks]

You can see Smith pop up from the hit initially, walk a few steps and then collapse; not unlike David Carradine's demise in Kill Bill II. That killer instinct hasn't been around these parts in a long time; it's good to see. Singletary set the tone when he dropped his trousers and showed his team the ass at halftime during his first game as head coach. We thought he was nuts then, but was there really genius within those pants?

It's also fun just to listen to Singletary talk.

"I won't say that it's my team, and I won't say it's becoming my team," he said, "because I'm really trying to help it become the players' team ... Rather than it be my team, it's going to be their team, and then it's going to be our team (the players and coaches). My team would be the third."

Does that make any sense? Does it matter? For long-suffering 49ers fans who have now watched their team win three of their past four, it sounds like poetry.

Tell The Yorks: It's Singletary's Team [San Francisco Chronicle]

First, a note on our favorite vest-wearing prospect on the skids. Brady Quinn's stock is dropping like liquid mercury through seawater, so Commissioner Compassion has come up with something new: the Passer-Over Draft Choice Isolation Chamber and Inactivity Room. Quinn can now relax in a sensory depravation chamber far from the peering eyes of lookie-loos like us. The room is filled with draft guides, most of which feature Quinn on the cover. There are also some forgotten alternate O.J. Simpson jurors in the room, snacking on stale dougnuts and waiting for a verdict. I expect Quinn to emerge from the room Altered States-style as some sort of werewolf. If so, he'll have to change positions.

Now, onto Willis, who was already the top linebacker on most draft boards before he went that extra mile to impress scouts at his pro day. Pro personnel types love prospects who run through drills with a no-questions-asked attitude. Willis was very accommodating. Want him to run a three-cone shuttle? Sure. Want him to perform some defensive end drills? No prob. Want him to balance a plate of eggplant parmesan on his head and run through tires while singing "Cherchez La Femme?" Whatever floats your boat, Coach Del Rio.

Willis has everything that Niners assistant coach Mike Singletary could want in a linebacker except for those googly eyes. Willis wore a visor in college, so he couldn't haunt quarterbacks with his stare. Facial expressions are easy to coach, and both Singletary and Mike Nolan have to love a kid who played with a cast on his hand as a senior. Willis is fast, tough, smart, and can play in a 3-4 or a 4-3, which is important because the Niners really run a little of both.