Here is my look at the teams, players and coaches for Sunday's playoff games.

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San Francisco 49ers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
San Francisco quarterback Jeff Garcia looked like Superman by the way he played in the second half of last Sunday's win over the New York Giants. And then the 49ers do have a real superman in receiver Terrell Owens. He's big and he's strong and he's fast. He just makes plays and the other team has to figure out what they're going to do about it. You always have to double him, but they have other things going on offense, too.

	Garrison Hearst needs to run the ball effectively to help the Niners against the Bucs' defense.

It's important that San Francisco gets some running going in this game. The Bucs will use the Cover 2 on defense, where the two corners bump the receivers and the two safeties are deep. And the way to get them out of that, so they don't just worry about the pass and Terrell Owens and everything, is that you have to run the ball. And then when you run the ball, that will force them out of Cover 2 and put 'em in Cover 1 or Cover 3 with safety John Lynch being the eighth man up. And then you have a better chance of passing the ball.

The Bucs' defense is an excellent one, but like most teams, they're a lot better when they make you one-dimensional. And they make you that way when you stop running and start throwing the ball every time. And when you do that, they get their pass rush going, with Warren Sapp and Simeon Rice and those guys, and they get in the Cover 2 with their safeties sitting deep. And the way you get them out of those things is by getting ahead, being able to run the ball, and being a balanced offense, and the 49ers are capable of doing that.

Tampa Bay had a bye last weekend and will get quarterback Brad Johnson back for this game. While he was injured and out, the Bucs darn near proved that they don't have any offense. He makes good decisions and gets rid of the ball quickly. He throws those short passes and those kinds of things and he should help them in this game.

However, I still don't see them scoring a lot of points. They just don't have the offense. When they do score a lot of points, their defense usually scores some, the special teams give the offense good field position and then they get ahead. But if they're behind or if their defense doesn't score touchdowns off of turnovers, it's still tough for them to put up many points.

New York Jets at Oakland Raiders (Sunday, 4:30 p.m. ET)
I am going to this game and I'm really looking forward to it. This is an interesting matchup. New York's probably the hottest team playing right now, and Oakland's probably been the hottest team all season. Heck, New York's hot, but Oakland is, too, but the Raiders just didn't play last weekend. They had a bye and they earned that bye by their play in the regular season.

	League MVP Rich Gannon has the protection and receivers to put up a lot of points each weekend.

The job that quarterback Rich Gannon has done this season is amazing. He was named the MVP of the league and he's something special. He has a lot of things on offense with Jerry Rice, Tim Brown and Jerry Porter catching the ball, and Charlie Garner both running and receiving out of the backfield. Garner's a guy who brings a lot of speed to that offense, and that unit is capable of doing some things to. They're going to move the ball against the Jets.

But can New York move the ball against them? That will be something to watch on Sunday.

I did the last meeting between these two teams on Dec. 2 when the Raiders won 26-20 at home. Since then, quarterback Chad Pennington has had that much more experience and really developed for the Jets. He now has a greater command of the offense and what they're doing on the field. And running back Curtis Martin has gotten healthier since that game.

Both teams are coming into this one with a heckuva lot of confidence. I know it's easy to say that New York has a lot of steam right now, but Oakland has a lot of steam, too. If the Raiders can get their secondary healthy or get some plays out of their secondary, that will be a big thing.

The Raiders are coming off of a week off and there are a bunch of things that go with that besides just having the week off. One, you do get the week off and the biggest benefit of that is giving the injured players an extra week. Two, you have the week off because you earned it by having the better record. So, during the regular season you have proven to be better than the teams that did have to play last weekend -- at least record-wise. And then three, you get to play the game at home in front of your fans and you don't have to travel.

And so it's not just any one of those things. Having a bye can be pretty big. Being the better team all season can be pretty big. And playing at home can be pretty big. But when you add all three of those things together, it's gigantic. And that's not only what the Jets are playing against this weekend, but that's what all of the visiting teams are playing against this weekend in the NFL.