The Awards Section

Tom Brady set the NFL postseason record for completion percentage (92.9 percent) Saturday. Jim Rogash/Getty Images

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Offensive Players of the Week

Green Bay T Mark Tauscher. Strange pick, given that Green Bay had a back rush for 201 yards on Saturday and Brett Favre played as good a bad-weather game as I've ever seen a quarterback play.

Here's why I picked Tauscher: The storyline going into the game centered around the quick Seattle defensive front seven because wild-card weekend had featured an indomitable performance by left end Patrick Kerney. And Kerney always had good success pass-rushing against Favre, with four career sacks of him.

On Saturday, matched man-on-man all day with Tauscher, Kerney's line was: zero tackles, zero assists, zero quarterback pressures. Obviously the weather was a huge help to Green Bay. "Torque and leverage are so important to a pass-rusher's speed,'' Holmgren had told me Friday. "They love a fast track.'' They didn't have one, certainly, but even in run plays Tauscher got low and had excellent leverage; on one of Grant's long runs, replays showed Tauscher burying Kerney.

Said Grant: "There were so many times I didn't get touched until the second level [the secondary]. Those guys up front did a phenomenal job.'' Particularly the right tackle.

New England QB Tom Brady. I wish I'd gotten to see this performance, play in and play out. I caught snippets. One play I did see was an absolute stunner -- the incredibly sure-handed Wes Welker dropping a pass right in his breadbasket, his first drop since pee wee football in fourth grade. That and a throw to Ben Watson, on which a pass interference could/should have been called, were the only blemishes on Brady's 26-of-28, 262-yard, three-touchdown, no-interception performance. The 92.9-percent night was the most accurate postseason game in NFL history.

The man whose record Brady broke, Phil Simms (Super Bowl XXI, 22-of-25, 88 percent) was doing color on this game for CBS. "I was Zen-like,'' Brady said, answering a Japanese reporter's question after the game. He was kidding. But the words rang true.

Defensive Players of the Week

New York Giants DEs Osi Umenyiora and Michael Strahan. They didn't have a sack in the Giants' 21-17 upset of the Cowboys, but they showed how meaningless that stat can be. Pressuring Romo for the entire fourth quarter, the New York bookends gave the Dallas quarterback happy feet and never gave him a clean pocket in his last three series of the game. What's more, their pressure made Romo snap at his offensive linemen and lose his cool. Simply saying Umenyiora and Strahan combined for 11 tackles and six pressures doesn't do their performance justice

Special Teams Player of the Week

New York Giants CB R.W. McQuarters. With the Giants trailing 17-14 and maybe two or three possessions left in their season, McQuarters, one of the few defensive backs on their team who is not hurt, took a punt at the Giants' 38, swerved right and rambled 25 yards to the Dallas 37. That set up a short field for the Giants' offense. Eli Manning drove them 37 yards to the decisive 1-yard Brandon Jacobs touchdown plunge. It was McQuarters' only return of the night -- he also fair-caught a pair -- but it came at a time the Giants desperately needed it.

Coach of the Week

San Diego coach Norv Turner. What a long, strange trip it's been for Turner, who couldn't have been lower when the Oakland Raiders fired him in 2005. Seen as a compromise candidate when GM A.J. Smith hired him to coach the fractured Chargers last winter, Turner didn't panic when the team was 1-3. He stayed positive when Philip Rivers looked lost, and kept the ship afloat until the team rallied late. The stunner against Indy on Sunday was San Diego's eighth straight win. "He's been good for us because he brings a relaxed feel to the team and never gets uptight,'' said LaDainian Tomlinson, a big Marty Schottenheimer guy who's come around to support Turner.

Goat of the Week

Jacksonville WR Dennis Northcutt. New England led 21-14 early in the fourth quarter Saturday night, but the Jags were driving relentlessly behind better-than-expected quarterback David Garrard. Northcutt ran a post between two New England defenders, and Garrard hit him perfectly at the Patriots 2-yard line. You couldn't throw the ball any better -- right on Northcutt's hands. One problem. Northcutt clearly had alligator arms on the play, fearing the big hit from the New England safety, and the ball bounced off his hands, incomplete. Instead of tying the game at 21 and giving the Patriots something to think about down the stretch, the Jags had to settle for a field goal to close within 21-17. They never caught up.

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