The route of the Super Bowl: Find out here the panorama of the NFL postseason that starts this Saturday

Love it or hate it –speaking in sporting terms–, Tom Brady He heads again this first NFL playoff weekend, which also features a classic 49ers-Cowboys matchup, which will bring the Raiders back, and perhaps the last game of Ben Roethlisberger’s career.

Brady and the Tampa Buccaneers are headlining six wild card games to be held between Saturday and Monday in the first weekend of the NFL football postseason stream, which will conclude on February 13 with the Super Bowl.

Brady and the Bucs are defending their championship, starting Sunday with a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. It will be a showdown of a Bucs air offense against a ground Eagles offense, whose quarterback Jalen Hurts is a threat running the ball.

The meeting is a duel of teams from the National Conference. The winner will advance to play in the postseason division of divisional games against the winner between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers, who meet Sunday in another NL wild card game.

Cowboys and 49ers is a classic game in the NFL and will be played in Arlington, between two teams that also enter the postseason hot with a 4-1 record in their last five games. The 49ers, especially, come in on a swing by securing the pass with a win in their final game.

The Cowboys, meanwhile, do well with passer Dak Prescott, one of the best of the year.

Speaking of passers, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are not playing this weekend because they earned the privilege of a bye in the first postseason round by being the best team in the NL. Rodgers is a candidate again for MVP and the Packers are waiting to find out who will be their rival in the divisional phase, which will be the winner between the Los Angeles Rams and the Arizona Cardinals on Monday.

That Rams-Cardinals clash is a wild card game to be played in the modern SoFi stadium that was chosen to host the Super Bowl if COVID-19 allows it. The NFL has other separate stadiums in case there is a problem to hold the game in Los Angeles.

Another passer who will be well followed this weekend will be Roethlisberger, this one in the American Conference. The future Hall of Famer, a two-time Super Bowl winner, has plans to retire after this postseason and is on a mission to extend his retirement with the Pittsburgh Steelers until the Super Bowl.

But Roethlisbeger and the Steelers play the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, home to quarterback Pat Mahomes, the second-best of the season behind Rodgers and who led the Chiefs to 12-5 on the season.

The winner of Pittsburgh and Kansas City face in the next round the winner of this weekend between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills, who play on Saturday, after the wild card game between the Las Vegas Raiders. and the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Raiders, meanwhile, are always an attraction. The team of late legends John Madden and Al Davis are only in their second postseason appearance in the past 20 years, and they are sure to want to take advantage of it.