Will Tampa Bay Be the Favorites to Win the NFC South in 2025?

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00:00Now we focus on the NFC South, where for four consecutive years with two different quarterbacks,

00:06the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have won the divisional crown.

00:08The final two years with Tom Brady, actually not the Super Bowl year, oddly enough in Tampa,

00:14they were a wild card team that season.

00:16And even with Baker Mayfield, an NFC South divisional title last year, a home playoff

00:22win, an NFC South divisional crown this year came up short, as we know, against the Commanders

00:28on Sunday night.

00:30But DRS, the Buccaneers, have not been priced as the NFC South favorites entering a year

00:36since Tom Brady's time in Tampa Bay.

00:39Might they be this upcoming season?

00:41You can see the odds right there.

00:43The Bucs had the second best price, but plenty of plus money at plus 310.

00:48The Falcons, after the offseason acquisition of Kirk Cousins, quickly became the minus

00:53money favorite to win the NFC South, and even sweeping Tampa throughout the regular

00:59season could not get that done.

01:01In fact, losing the regular season finale in overtime against the Carolina Panthers.

01:06So now entering 2025, still with a full offseason ahead of us, the buy or sell question to you DRS

01:13is this, the Buccaneers will open as odds on, that's minus money, NFC South favorites

01:19entering 2025.

01:21I'm buying that.

01:22I'm going to buy that.

01:22And I do think it's going to be close.

01:24But if you look at the four teams in that division, you start with the Buccaneers.

01:27Well, Baker Mayfield is the best quarterback in that division.

01:29That's usually going to get a massive hand up over the next season.

01:32And it's the next two to three years, as you should, unless you have one of these younger

01:36quarterbacks take the mantle, which we'll get to.

01:38Mike Evans, you know, he's probably going to come back.

01:39We'll have a 12th season with a thousand yards.

01:41Bucky Irving looks like he's on the cusp of being a superstar running back in the NFL.

01:46And that defense, as long as Todd Bowles still stays as the head coach, is going to be comparable.

01:50The only drawback might be if Lee Cohen does move on, which means Baker Mayfield will have

01:54three separate play callers in three separate years down in Tampa.

01:56That's something you don't want to have, but you trust that Baker Mayfield would get through it

02:00the same way he got through losing Dave Canales to the Carolina Panthers.

02:03You take a look at the Atlanta Falcons, who I do think will be in line for a close spot

02:07here at the Buccaneers, because what we've seen out of Michael Penix looks like he's

02:11going to be pretty good.

02:12An entire offseason of him being the starting quarterback, that adds up.

02:15You have weapons all over the place, which includes Bijan Robinson, the best running

02:18back in that division.

02:19And hopefully Raheem Morris gets that defense together.

02:22But for me, it'd still be the Buccaneers.

02:24Reclamation project still with the Carolina Panthers.

02:26You want them to win six, seven, maybe eight games next year and sort of be in contention.

02:31And then there's the Saints and Salary Capel.

02:33Don't know who our quarterback is going to be, who our coach is going to be.

02:36You get the point there.

02:37So for me, I am buying the Buccaneers once again as a slight favorite in this division,

02:41which they weren't last year.

02:43But I do think they'll be slightly ahead of the Falcons, who were supposed to win it this year,

02:46just being just a little bit behind those Bucs.

02:50But my friend, that wasn't necessarily the actual wording of the buy or sell question.

02:56I would buy that the Buccaneers will be a favorite to win the NFC South entering 2025.

03:03On minus money, I'm going to sell because like you, I still think there will be a ton

03:07of odds optimism for the Falcons.

03:10I think the Bucs are going to be plus 125 to win the NFC South and maybe Atlanta at

03:16plus 200 plus 250 with the Saints and the Panthers, maybe not all that far behind.

03:22I do think there is going to be some offseason love for Bryce Young,

03:26reinstalling himself as the face and future of the franchise in Charlotte in what turned out

03:32to be a successful second half of the first year under Dave Canales, a team that was incredibly

03:39competitive down the home stretch and looked really efficient offensively with Bryce Young.

03:44The Saints, I actually think are going to be alongside the Panthers as one of the longer

03:49prices in this division.

03:50But I do think there will be a closer distinction than maybe we already perceive between the

03:56Buccaneers and the Falcons.

03:58Tampa will be a favorite, but in minus money, I'm not so sure.

04:03Yeah, but that's not what the question asked.

04:04The odds on favorite though, buy or sell will be the Buccaneers.

04:07So yes, we in agreement that it will be the Buccaneers next year.

04:11Uh-oh, you're not saying that you have to be minus 115 at this point.

04:15The odds on favorite means you have the best odds to win that division.

04:19No way.

04:20Donnie, don't out yourself.

04:22They'll come to you on social media.

04:24One of the first things that I learned here hosting at the Spiz Grizz Network was that

04:30if you say that odds on means minus money.

04:36That's insides.

04:37That's just insides.

04:38You can't have two teams at plus money playing a football game together, right?

04:41So the odds on favorite in a game would be, yes, the favorite because they are minus money.

04:46That's the odds on favorite.

04:47You can't have an odds on favorite there at that point with a, let's just say minus 160,

04:51Kansas City plus 240.

04:53Yes, it makes sense there, but you are odds on favorite if you're the favorite in the

04:57odds market in that said market.

04:59What about Duke winning a national championship?

05:01They're plus money.

05:01They're the odds on favorite to win the championship.

05:04They have the best odds.

05:05Nobody else is minus money.

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