SANTA CLARA–The 49ers get rewarded for their win against Seattle with a cross country flight to warm Tampa Bay they don’t have to fly to Baltimore, New Jersey or Philadelphia where the tempatures are always around 20 or less where they were playing football in the middle of snow storms this past weekend the 49ers get to go to a relatively warm weather site that’s the one benefit they get.

They’re banged up after this win against Seattle last Sunday and playing Seattle is never an easy game and these two teams get so pumped up for it and hit so hard that you only imagine how bruised and banged up they are after this game even if they don’t suffer any major injuries their just going to be beaten up.

It’s not going to be easy for the 49ers to make this long trip given the shape their going to be in and Tampa Bay is not the best team in the world but they have been getting better the last several weeks. They start off the season with a six or seven game losing streak but since that time they actually have been playing reasonably well.

The Bucs have won four out of their last five games this isn’t a team that the 49ers can expect to roll over and they can’t take these guys lightly the Bucs are a decent football team their certainly not going to let the 49ers just walk in and take a win away. The Niners need to get all these wins their still in a fight for that wild card spot so every game counts at this stake.

The Niners have to put that Seattle game behind them and focus on Tampa and it’ll be intresting to see how this plays because Tampa their defense is okay their offense is okay but their another tough team and the Niners know one of their guys on their defense and it’s Dashon Goldson is a former Niners safety and now the Bucs safety.

We’ll see if Goldson is going after anybody with some big hits, the biggest question mark for the Bucs is their quarterback rookie Mike Glennon he’s been okay probably better than everyone expected. He’s not the quarterback people thought would be having a decent amount of success coming out of last year’s draft but he’s probably playing reasonably well all things considered.

When you put some of these young rookies against really experienced tough defenses the results can be kind of bad often times for the rookie. It’s one thing to go up against a lousy defense but when your going up against really tough rock and sock em teams like the 49ers it becomes a whole different ball game and that could be the case for the Bucaneers Sunday.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for Sportstalk Radio