The Bucs, The NFC South Race And Home Field Advantage
October 29th, 2025
Bucs are still in a fight, says Bucco Bruce Arians.
So the Bucs are enjoying their bye week. They should.
The Bucs earned a few days off after having one of the best starts to a season in franchise history. Yeah, the Bucs are showing some cracks of late, largely due to so many injuries, but 6-2 is 6-2.
The Bucs have a two-game lead on the Stinking Panthers in the NFC South and Jeff Kerr of CBS thinks the Bucs should cruise to a fivepeat division crown.
The Buccaneers are in control in the NFC South, and gained a bigger lead with everyone else in the division falling in Week 8. A loss to the Eagles hurts home-field advantage chances, but the Buccaneers do have an easy schedule after back-to-back games against the Patriots and Bills.
Yesterday on the “Pat McAfee Show” it was Bucco Bruce Arians day. The former Bucs’ Super Bowl-winning coach has a weekly spot in-studio with McAfee during the football season.
There, when McAfee asked if the Bucs have the division locked up already, Arians called “total bullsh!t” on that idea. The Bucs, Arians cautioned, have four more division games on the schedule, including two against the team that is in second place in the division, the Stinking Panthers.
Arians seemed to think it was irresponsible of anyone to suggest the Bucs are going to skate the rest of the way and have the NFC South handed to them.
Joe tends to agree. The last two weeks the Bucs offense has looked terrible. It’s one thing to get shut down by the Lions. It’s quite another to get shut down by the slimy Saints, maybe the worst team in the league.
While Kerr may think the Bucs all but have the division won, he does believe that home field advantage throughout the playoffs is still very much on the table for the Bucs.