{"id":893704,"date":"2026-05-17T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:39:17","slug":"sportsbooks-nfc-south-most-competitive-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893704\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsbooks: NFC South Most Competitive &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tSportsbooks: NFC South Most Competitive<br \/>\nMay 17th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TeamGlazer.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TeamGlazer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"448\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-236297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cEd, we have enough NFC South division title T-shirts in our closets. Time for something better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes, the jokes write themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And while in the long run, this isn\u2019t a laughing matter, it did provide Joe with a good chuckle while nursing a cold beer yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Per Jenna Laine of ESPN, it seems our friends in the desert consider the NFC South as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/page\/nflschedulerelease-48738356\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-nfl-schedule-2026-takeaways-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">most competitive division<\/a> in the NFL \u201cbased on sheer betting odds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2026 \u2026 with every team having odds under +500 to win the division. But per DraftKings Sportsbook, the defending-champion Panthers aren\u2019t favored. The Bucs are at +165, and then it\u2019s the Saints (+265), Panthers (+300) and Falcons (+450).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, \u201ccompetitive\u201d is one word to describe it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two of the last four NFC South champions captured the division with losing records: the Bucs and the Stinking Panthers. That\u2019s not something to brag about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is why Bucs fans get irked when the Bucs crow how the team has beaten the beasts of the NFC South under Todd Bowles. The Bucs have won a grand total of two playoff games the past five seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(During the throes of The Lost Decade, one playoff win seemed like manna from heaven.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While Joe understands division titles are huge for organizations (home games mean a ton of revenue and that gets smiles from team owners) fans consider quick playoff exits an ugly rut.\u00a0Cap and T-shirt games are nice but they\u2019re a stepping stone to bigger and better things, not a long-term accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Can the Bucs snap out of this rut and win playoff games? That\u2019s what Bucs fans want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sportsbooks: NFC South Most Competitive May 17th, 2026 \u201cEd, we have enough NFC South division title T-shirts in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":["post-893704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-buccaneers","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116589963970881222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893704","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=893704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}