Playoff Special

The NFL playoffs begin in about two-hours. My predictions for this week are:

St. Louis at Seattle
Marshall Faulk has a decent game but Shaun Alexander is the standout RB today. Alexander goes for over 100 yards and two TD's.
Prediction: Seattle 24-St. Louis 17

NY Jets at San Diego
Same thing as above except substitute Curtis Martin for Marshall Faulk and LaDainian Tomlinson for Alexander. Drew Brees will hit Gates for a long TD and Tomlinson will run one in and catch a TD.
Prediction: San Diego 27-NY 21

Update:Wrong on both counts. Some thoughts; Bobby Engram has to catch that pass in the endzone and what the hell was Marty Schottenheimer thinking by running the ball and setting a young kicker up on the right hash mark for the biggest kick of his career?

Tomorrow's games will be posted tomorrow.
Also, Eagles offensive lineman John Runyan on what happens in the pile during a fumble:

Question: What's the most outrageous thing you've seen in a pileup?
A: Well, I know I punched a guy in the [crotch] once as an Oiler. I got kicked out of the game. It was because he pushed me over a pile. It was on a field goal. I was watching the kick. The kick was already gone. [Jerry Ball] took two hands to my face mask and pushed me over the pile. I couldn't get up off the ground because everyone was underneath me, and I just swung at the nearest thing I saw.
Q: What goes on in a pile when there's a fumble?
A: A lot of times you know who has the ball, but the officials don't. You know you've got a teammate in there going for the ball. You go in there and pry guys' thumbs back. As soon as you bend somebody's thumb back, they're going to let go of the ball. I've seen it happen, where you know the other team had it, but you're in there bending fingers enough that you get the guy to let go of it and a guy on your team gets it.

Back when I played, you saw some of these things go on such as eye-poking and other non-mentionable stuff.