Mike Williams'struggles continue Stephen F Holder, The St.Petersburg Times, published 10 October 2011 Mike Williams didn't make excuses or try to deflect blame. He said he should've made the third-quarter play on which he was leveled by 49ers S Dashon Goldson and fumbled. "I always hold myself to a high standard," Williams said. "I'm supposed to come down with that catch. It was a hard hit, but I should've come down with it. I just didn't. I expected to." But in the larger context, Williams hasn't gotten off to nearly as hot a start as he did last season, when he led all rookie receivers in catches and yards. And he has had his share of arguable drops lately on passes that he seemed to come up with last season. There was one such play Sunday, but Williams said a defender got a hand on the ball. "It got to my hands, but he knocked it down," Williams said. Williams, settling for short, underneath routes that seemed to be available, finished with four catches for 28 yards. "Basically I want to help my team win," he said. "If it's blocking more, catching short passes. Whatever I can do to help my team win more is what I'm going to do." Another flag day Another game, another alarming number of penalties for the Bucs. A week after shaking off 14 penalties in a win over the Colts, the Bucs committed nine penalties for 96 yards against the 49ers, continuing a trend that is becoming difficult to overcome. And the penalties ran the gamut, from an unsportsmanlike conduct call on coach Raheem Morris for his run-in with an official to a 14-yard penalty on LB Dekoda Watson for using an opponent for leverage in trying to block a field-goal attempt. Many of the penalties are typical of those young teams make. "We are young, and that's something that we have to correct," Morris said. "That's something that we have to correct, and that's something that we have to get better at, period." Captain C Jeff Faine put it in more demonstrative terms. "If we do the same thing and make the same mistakes we made (Sunday), next week we'll have the same result," he said. "You just can't do that in the NFL. You can't come into an environment like this where (the 49ers) are playing good football, believing in their team, believing in themselves, and continue to make the same mistakes and continue to shoot yourselves in the foot. If you do, when you play against a good team, this is going to happen every single time." Bruising Blount suffers a blow LeGarrette Blount's unspecified left leg injury sustained on a hit from 49ers S Dashon Goldson sidelined him for much of the second half. Asked whether Blount, left, could have returned, coach Raheem Morris said, "I just listen to what my doctors tell me. I know he didn't come back. He was icing down. Healthy men have to play. That was Kregg Lumpkin and Allen Bradford when we pulled (Earnest Graham) out of there." Graham is the next back off the bench, and he finished the third quarter before giving way to Lumpkin and Bradford. Asked after the game about his injury, Blount declined to comment.