Something foul is happening in the NFL right now, but it’s not the officiating: It’s the NFC South

There is something very foul happening in the NFL right now. It’s not something that requires people to be suspended, fined or reviewed at the owners’ meetings, but there is cause for the league to take a moral stance against an entity that grows more wicked and dangerous by the week: the 2023 NFC South.

By rule, each division is represented by its champion in the playoffs with a home game, but it is simply distasteful for the league to allow that rule to apply to the NFC South. These teams are just playing around in the mud, waiting for the season to end to see who has the honor and privilege of getting absolutely flattened by the NFC East runner-up. With each week that passes, one thing becomes more certain about the bottom-dwellers that cover the southeastern portion of the NFL: Not a single one of these teams is even close to playoff-caliber.

Right now, the Buccaneers are the leaders in the NFC South with a 6-7 record, owning the tiebreaker over the Falcons … who also have a 6-7 record. The Falcons currently have a tiebreaker over the Saints … who are also sitting around at 6-7! Then there’s the Panthers, who were the first team mathematically eliminated from the playoffs last week and are on track to own the worst record ever in a 17-game NFL season.

The NFC South has been an extravagant mess this season. (Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports)

The Buccaneers beat the Falcons despite Baker Mayfield’s not eclipsing 100 passing yards until the fourth quarter. That’s the team currently leading this sad parade. It’s a three-way, 6-7 tie at the top with a month to go until one of these teams gets a wet Burger King crown as it heads into guaranteed destruction in the wild-card round.

The easiest way to describe where the NFC South is right now is to look at what happened to Atlanta after the loss to Tampa Bay. The Falcons led the NFC South heading into the game, locking them into the fourth seed and the projected 19th overall pick in next year’s draft. With the…

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Publish date : 2023-12-11 16:40:14

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