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The wild-card games were fun, the weekend entertaining. Or as Kansas City coach Marty Schotenhelder said, "We're in the entertainment business. We delivered."
Three of next weekend's quarterfinal games are regular-season rematches — Kansas City at Houston and the Los Angeles Raiders at Buffalo in the AFC and Green Bay at Dallas in the NFC. And the New York Giants at San Francisco may as well be a regular-season rematch — these teams seem to meet as often as division opponents.
NFL playoffs showcase stars, rematches
Dallas favored to win second straight title
Dallas, Houston, San Francisco and Buffalo, the four teams that had byes last week, all are favored. Teams that were off lost two-thirds of the time when they met teams that had played the previous week.
By Dave Goldberg The Associated Press
There are a lot of winners on the playoff teams — the eight starting quarterbacks left have 11 Super Bowl rings among them (Joe Montana four; Phil Simms, Steve Young and Jeff Hostellert two; and Troy Aikman one). Montana, Alkman and Simms all have been Super Bowl MVPs.
And don't forget Jim Kelly just because he has lost three Super Bowls — he's been the winning quarterback in three straight AFC title games.
A look at this weekend's games
Kansas City (12-5) at Houston (12-4)
The Oilers won 30-0 in the regular season — but with an asterisk. Montana sat out with a bruised wrist.
Still, that was during Houston's bad period — its only win in its first five games. Now they've won 11 straight and seem to be enjoying the Buddy Ryan-Kevin Gilbride sideshow.
So we get Montana vs. Moon and the Houston defense.
Montana has usually played well against Ryan defenses. Montana picked himself up after nine sacks to throw four fourth-quarter touchdowns on Sept. 24, 1989 for San Francisco in Philadelphia, finishing 24 of 35 for 428 yards in that game against man-to-man coverage forced by Ryan's blitzes.
But the Kansas city secondary is banged-up and didn't have much success against Neil O'Donnell in the overtime win over Pittsburgh. And O'Donnell's a couple of notches below Moon.
So can the Chiefs win?
"Ithink they have the best defense in the league," Schottenheimer said Monday of the Oilers. "But Cleveland got 402 yards against them, so who knows?"
Raiders (11-6) at Buffalo (12-4)
The last meeting was in Buffalo Dec.
5 and the Raiders won 25-24. Tim
Brown caught 10 passes for 183 yards.
Buffalo's weather could work against the Los Angeles track club. But remember this — Brown played
at Notre Dame, James Jett at West Virginia and Hostetler, a generation ahead of Jett at West Virginia, spent his formative NFL years in the winds of Giants Stadium.
Still, Buffalo's secondary, Nate Odomes and Henry Jones in particular, is a lot better than that of Denver, which Hostetler, Brown and Jett riddled for two straight weeks. Teams can run against the Bills, but the Raiders' running game is mediocre at best even with the promotion of Napoleon McCallum.
The last time the Raiders were in Buffalo for a playoff game, the Bills won 51-3 in the 1990 AFC title game. But while the cast of characters is the same, the Buffalo offense isn't — the Bills have won this year because their defense grabs turnovers.
Buffalo should win, but there are no guarantees.
suspect defense and try to consume 40 minutes or so to keep Rice, Taylor and Young off the field. Then they have to hope that they get touchdowns instead of field goals once they're in scoring position.
Giants (12-5) at San Francisco (10-6)
A seemingly annual matchup with an odd statistic: the 49ers have won five of the last six regular-season meetings, but the Giants have won the last three playoff games, including the 1990 NFC title game at Candlestick. In fact, this will be the 16th New York-San Francisco meeting in 13 years, a high among non-division opponents during that period.
The Niners lost three of their last four after they had secured the NFC's second seed. But they still scare teams simply because of Jerry Rice and John Taylor, who can score from anywhere on the field.
One problem for the Giants — Mark Collins, who usually handles Rice pretty well, has a gimpy ankle.
The plot should be simple: the Giants will give the ball to Rodney Hampton against San Francisco's
The Cowboys won 36-14 in the regular season and are two-touchdown favorites. That's assuming Emmitt Smith's shoulder allows him to play. He clearly has been the most important player in the NFL this year.
Again, no guarantees.
Smith won't be the only problem for the Green Bay defense, which will have to get a lot of pressure from Reggie White and Tony Bennett to keep Troy Aikman from finding Michael Irvin and Alvin Harper. Erik Williams, the Cowboys' right tackle, won an NFC player of the week award last season for shutting down White in a game with Philadelphia.
Green Bay (10-7) at Dallas (12-4)
The Cowboys have less to worry about on defense, although the Packers: Sterling Sharpe keeps finding ways of getting open.
The Packers, weak at cornerback, strong at safety, may try a two-deep zone — a defense the Giants used to shut down Irvin and Harper. But Green Bay, banged-up at inside linebacker, allowed Barry Sanders 169 yards coming off a knee injury. Now the Packers must face Smith.
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