Name: Saints Snag Unlikely Win Over TB; NFC South Race Heats Up
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Description: The Saints' win over the Buccaneers yesterday tightens the NFC South race, with Tampa Bay and Carolina chasing playoff spots. Who will take the division?

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The Saints' win over the Buccaneers yesterday tightens the NFC South race, with Tampa Bay and Carolina chasing playoff spots. Who will take the division?

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But that is the Saints and Buccaneers, and we saw the Saints led by, uh, Chuck the quarterback with an unlikely win, 24-20, which obviously, New Orleans isn't going anywhere, but for Tampa, important loss because now you're looking at Tampa and Carolina, each 7 and 6 atop the NFC South. Neither team is gonna be a wild card team. So it's win the division, get into the playoffs, or go home. What do you think ends up happening? Is Tampa gonna be healthy enough to get this done or is Carolina, I can't believe I'm saying this, is Carolina too hot? Well, the good news for both of them, uh, both the Bucks and Carolina is that they're going to face each other, uh, 2 out of the final 3 weeks of the season. So they still got to play one another, and that's where it will be decided, which seems kind of fitting for this division, that it should come down to these two just figuring out which is the better team, because Carolina, a lot of people will say kind of. may have overperformed here a little bit, but the Bucks have lost 5 of their last 7 games. I mean, they have no excuse. Yes, injuries. I get it. It's a part of the game, but there is no excuse to lose that game, even in a hurricane style game there where it was raining sideways the entire time. It was also running sideways for Tyler Shunk like you uh mentioned in New Orleans, and you know what, he figured out a way to get the pay dirt twice, uh, and it's a, I don't know what the Saints are doing winning games. They do realize there's a draft coming up, but neither here nor there. Tampa better figure it out because they don't look anything like the team we saw to start this season. Bucks are still the overwhelming favorites to win that division in terms of the odds makers, minus 330, whereas to win the NFC 16 to 1, I'm not so sure that's going to happen. Super Bowl 35 to 1, but we should at least acknowledge no Mike Evans, no Jalen McMillan. These guys didn't play in the last game, but they are expected back this upcoming week, at least Evans anyway. So as this team gets healthier, the weapons around Baker Mayfield, how big a difference does that make in terms of potentially making a run? Well, he completed 46.7% of his passes yesterday. That's the lowest of the season for him. And we all know he's not healthy. How could you be? I mean, he's gotten absolutely destroyed, uh, this season because of the offensive line issues there. You know, you can have all the weapons you want. If Baker Mayfield can't get them the ball and do it in, uh, and he didn't get any help, by the way, in that game. Um, you know, he had a couple of big drops by his receivers in that game that could have went the other way, but I think it's important Baker stay as healthy as possible when these guys come back. They should, like you said, the overwhelming favorite for a reason, they should be able to hold on and at least handle business against Carolina, but I, I don't know that there's much separating those two teams right now.

Saints Snag Unlikely Win Over TB; NFC South Race Heats Up

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