I found myself caring more about the losing teams this week, perhaps a byproduct of all the bad football on Christmas and the several meaningless games we’re going to get in next week’s regular-season finales.
A winner-take-all NFC South matchup between the free-falling Buccaneers and the inconsistent Panthers doesn’t exactly move the needle. My colleague Conor Orr said it best when he argued that the Saints should be given the NFC South title because the top two teams have been playing hot potato with the divisional lead.
