It all comes down to these final three weeks of the regular season.
Only a tiebreaker holds the Tampa Bay Buccaneers above the 7-7 Carolina Panthers for the NFC South lead. Whether an opportunity or a tremendous failure after a hot start to the year, the fact of the matter is the Bucs play Carolina twice over the next three weeks, and hold all of the cards when it comes to winning the NFC South.
The only way they can lose is if they fold.
A terrible 1-5 stint has placed Tampa Bay in this uneasy situation, but there's no more time to look back.