The Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks certainly lived up to the hype on Thursday Night Football, producing a game for the ages in the battle for the NFC West - and the No. 1 seed. Earlier this season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had actually outlasted Seattle, would have thought they would have been in the No. 1 seed conversation by this point in the campaign, but the wheels have completely fallen off Todd Bowles's wagon in Tampa Bay; they were embarrassed by the Los Angeles Rams on national television just weeks ago.
It is thus all on the line for the Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon against the NFC South rival Carolina Panthers, who have often been the biggest thorn in their side in these playoff conversations.