The 49ers erased a huge deficit in coming back to beat the New York Giants at home last Sunday afternoon. Two big reasons why they won that game were Jeff Garcia and Terrell Owens. Garcia threw for more than 300 yards and three scores, while also rushing for 60 yards and a touchdown. Owens caught nine balls for 177 yards and two touchdowns. He and Garcia just couldn't be stopped, especially late in the game.

San Francisco now moves on to play Tampa Bay this Sunday down in Tampa and that should be a good one. The Buccaneers are still all about defense and they're led by Warren Sapp (who always seems to get a good push up the middle), Derrick Brooks, Simeon Rice and John Lynch.

	Jeff Garcia ralled the 49ers against the Giants with his feet and his arm.

Garcia has had a heckuva NFL career, and I have to tell you that I'm shocked at how well he's done as the 49ers' quarterback. When he first came into the league after playing in the Canadian Football League, I watched him practice and I thought he was a reject. Heck, I didn't even think he could make a team. Then you watch him play and you think that Jeff Garcia can't be this kind of guy. And then he plays game after game and he does big things to help his team win.

I remember that overtime victory against Oakland on Nov. 3, and he was as close to a one-man gang as you can have. He darn near single-handedly beat the Raiders by himself. This is a guy who has risen from coming from Canada to a free agent and all of those things to where he is now. He's a legitimate superstar and he showed that against New York.

It was interesting that head coach Steve Mariucci said after the game on Sunday that they knew that they needed some runs and that they needed Garcia's feet on some plays. And he wanted Garcia to use his feet in lieu of check downs or as a check down. Normally, the quarterback goes back in the pocket, looks deep and looks downfield for his receivers, and then time runs out, so he comes back to something and that thing is usually some back sitting underneath sometimes or a tight end.

But what Mariucci was saying is that Garcia was going to need to use his feet as check downs. In other words, if Garcia went back, and he looked and looked and didn't have anything, then he was just going to have to run with the ball. Garcia did that and did it very effectively.

A running quarterback will take the aggressiveness out of a defense, and San Francisco did that against the Giants. You also saw that when Atlanta's Michael Vick took the aggressiveness out of that Green Bay Packer defense.

Owens has played well all season long and he's the best receiver in football. Heck, he may be the best player in football right now. He's just so darn big and strong and fast and he can do a lot of things to a defense. He seems to be able to do whatever he wants and that's the kind of player he is.

There are some guys who are just above and beyond. That's the higher echelon of player in the NFL. When a guy gets to that point, where he looks just unstoppable and where he can do just about anything he wants at any time he wants to, then that's what the definition of a superstar is. And that's what Terrell Owens is. He's a superstar who plays big in big games. And he did that again last Sunday against New York.