{"id":661045,"date":"2026-01-07T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661045\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:06:36","slug":"tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-carolina-panthers-predictions-live-fan-discussion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/661045\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Carolina Panthers predictions, live fan discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucsnation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> are home this week for the season finale to take on the 8-8 Carolina Panthers for an NFC South clash to decide the division (sort of). If Carolina wins, they outright win the division. If Tampa Bay wins, they will hope the Saints can defeat the Falcons so they can claim the division crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bucs will be without veteran receiver Sterling Shepard as well as cornerback Jamel Dean this week. You can see the rest of the inactives <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PL7pXQedUd\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kickoff is set for 4:30 PM EST. Enjoy each other\u2019s company in the comments section!<\/p>\n<p>Staff game picks and score predictions<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gil Arcia (12-4): Panthers 26, Bucs 23 &#8211; \u201cLet\u2019s not delay the inevitable.\u201d<br \/>Mike Kiwak (10-6): Panthers 21, Bucs 17 &#8211; \u201cWho knows at this point, lol.\u201d<br \/>Evan Wanish (11-5): Bucs 20, Panthers 17 &#8211; \u201cFor the sole reason of this division being dragged on yet another day.\u201d<br \/>Will Walsh (8-8): Bucs 15, Panthers 12 &#8211; (No comment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are home this week for the season finale to take on the 8-8 Carolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,6,704,250,88227,64674,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-661045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","13":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-discussion","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-game-information","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115853733803618152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}