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55 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I don't think there is a "probably." The NFC South is about a 99.9% likelihood of being a 1 team playoff division.

Not statistically, logically. 

Remember when the NFC South was the toughest division (circa 2002-2006 when every NFC Championship game featured one of the four of us?)

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40 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

Remember when the NFC South was the toughest division (circa 2002-2006 when every NFC Championship game featured one of the four of us?)

I know. It's been a wild downfall.

21 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Yea. Which means our odds are largely tied to being in 1st in the division.  I’d expect big swings based on the standings.

100%. It's really on what the Bucs do. We are probably gonna get the poo kicked out of us for the rest of the season(for the most part, I expect 1-2 more wins) and they have a significantly easier schedule. We are probably going to have to rely on them to fall apart. They haven't really looked particularly strong, TBH.

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Barring some sort of collapse, it seems there will be at least 2 coming out of the North and at least 2 from the West. East will have 1. That's 5 of the 7 spots, 6 when the South winner is included. 

There is something to say for the final stretch of games, minus the Saints, are a gauntlet of playoff teams or playoff-caliber teams. If the Panthers get in, they will have proven on the field that they belong. If not, it will be the famous missed opportunities of Jacksonville, Arizona and New Orleans games.

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Just now, UnluckyforSome said:

Barring some sort of collapse, it seems there will be at least 2 coming out of the North and at least 2 from the West. East will have 1. That's 5 of the 7 spots, 6 when the South winner is included. 

There is something to say for the final stretch of games, minus the Saints, are a gauntlet of playoff teams or playoff-caliber teams. If the Panthers get in, they will have proven on the field that they belong. If not, it will be the famous missed opportunities of Jacksonville, Arizona and New Orleans games.

Not sure you can call JAX (and even AZ) missed opportunities. JAX has a good chance of making the playoffs and AZ isn't as bad as their record shows 

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2 minutes ago, PleaseCutStewart said:

Not sure you can call JAX (and even AZ) missed opportunities. JAX has a good chance of making the playoffs and AZ isn't as bad as their record shows 

They are missed opportunities in that both were games that had a good chance for victory. Jacksonville does have a good chance at a playoff spot and would be in if the season ended today. 

Enough fans were buying into the nonsense of making the Superbowl because we began with Jacksonville.

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