NFC South Showdown: Buccaneers vs. Panthers Preview

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00:00Let's keep it with the NFC South across to Tampa Bay for the big tussle going against the Panthers

00:05here in Week 17. Bryce Young, he's been playing some better football. The Panthers now sitting

00:11with four wins, but for the Bucs, there's a lot on the line. Absolute must win here. They're

00:16laying eight and a half, 48 and a half is that total. You look at last week, they dropped one

00:21to the Cowboys. That sort of halted their momentum, but this is not going to be an easy

00:26feat. The Panthers, it looks like they found a little bit of an offensive spark the last month

00:31of football job. Yeah, the NFC South is so crazy, isn't it? When you look at all four Tampa Bay

00:39division games so far, they've totaled at least 49 points and averaged 62 and a half points.

00:47Four of Carolina's five divisional games have hit 49 or more points there and average around

00:5455 points a game. For whatever reason, in the NFC South, we get these crazy shootouts

01:00and these wild games where defenses don't show up, but the offenses do. We saw Mayfield

01:08struggle throwing the ball against the Carolina defense the first meeting, but Tampa Bay ran all

01:15over them with Bucky Irving and White and company in that first game there. I think they're

01:22going to do the same thing here. Listen, Carolina is the worst defensively rated team in the NFL

01:28with good reason, which makes Arizona losing to them last week even more hilarious when you think

01:34about it. Tampa Bay, nine and three to the over in their last 12 games. Carolina, who has finally

01:40started to put it together offensively and starting to believe in Bryce Young, six and two to the over

01:45in their last eight. The last five meetings between these two teams has gone over and seven

01:51of the last 10 as well. To me, get ready for a crazy wild shootout. We're going to get a ton of

01:56points, no defense. Both these teams are going to go at each other. That's what we get in the NFC

02:03South and we should be prepared for it. I think this lands in the 50s. I don't think it lands in

02:08the mid 40s. So yeah, give me the over in this matchup. Yeah, they met back in week 13. It was

02:14all about that ground game for the Bucs. Season high, 236 rushing yards. That was fantastic. And

02:21Baker Mayfield also in search of a pretty special milestone. 34 passing touchdowns for the season

02:27would just be the second quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to surpass. 35 passing

02:32touchdowns. No surprises who the other quarterback is. The one, the only, the GOAT, Tom Brady,

02:38who notched up a nice little 40 piece there. So the Bucs with plenty on the line amongst the

02:43division going against a Carolina Panthers team who has looked a little better, but that's

02:47certainly one of the bigger margins that we see for week 17 in the NFL and for the Bucs, Joe,

02:53they're a cagey team. You know, you never know what you're going to get with Baker Mayfield,

02:57but I guess that's the blueprint for a, you know, a Bryce Young. Once you get that set up

03:02and those pieces around you to really thrive in your certain environment, Baker Mayfield,

03:07he's had a really good year. Listen, it's and it's funny because he's doing it now with Liam

03:14Cohn, the former offensive coordinator that kind of resurrected his career last year is now the head

03:20coach at Carolina. So he'll be looking at Canalis across the way there. Nobody knows him better than

03:27Canalis, but Liam Cohn's done a great job also with Baker. So coaching matters in the NFL,

03:35and it looks like the coaching is finally starting to get to Bryce Young. And if we're,

03:40if I'm Tampa, I'm not doing anything different than what we did in the first game. Give the

03:44ball to Bucky Irving, looked at back his props up and over rushing, maybe anytime touchdown.

03:51There's absolutely no reason to think that they're going to let Baker, who again struggled

03:56against Carolina that first go around. There's no reason to do anything differently. If it ain't

04:02broke, don't fix it. Run all over Carolina and back Bucky Irving every which way you can there

04:07in the prop market.