Buccaneers predicted as 2025 NFC South champions.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the precipice of NFC South history. The team’s string of consecutive division crowns is currently tied for the most all-time. A repeat performance in 2025 would give the Bucs the record for the most consecutive division titles (5). One of the most prominent sports talk shows in the nation has no doubt Tampa Bay will capture the achievement.
First Things First of FS1 was amidst their yearly segment tabbed ‘predictions week.’ Inside of ‘predictions week’ the show goes division by division and each analyst lays out who they anticipate finishing first-last, going to the playoffs, and general forecasts for noteworthy organizations.
During their NFC South segment, the entire panel –in uniformity– selected the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to walk away from 2025 as NFC South champions yet again. “The Buccaneers [are] clearly the best team.” Said long-tenured analyst of the show, Chris Broussard.
His co-star, Nick Wright, took it a step further. Unafraid to be thunderous in his praise, he went on to speculate Tampa may be in for their best season in a while saying, “I think given their schedule and their division and [Baker Mayfield], they could be in contention for the number one seed in the entire conference.”
The show’s selection of the Buccaneers (and many sound bites of the segment) really emphasize the overall change in national narrative around Tampa Bay that has occurred in recent memory, but it’s also a tour de force for two men in particular.
Jason Licht has truly taken the Tampa Bay Bucs from woeful to wonderful– He has made the Buccaneers a winner. For a team that, less than 10 years ago, existed without most of the NFL world even knowing, to be the hands down favorite for their fifth-straight divison title is first-rate. Licht has come a long way as a GM and Tampa’s willingness to stand by him has been rewarded in spades.
Additionally, a standing ovation is warranted for what Baker Mayfield has been able to do. Mayfield came to Bucs on his career’s last legs– One or two bad games from potentially being out of the league. In just two years with the team, he is now viewed as not only a franchise quarterback, but the reason a good team is a good team. Greg Jennings, former NFL wide receiver, was featured on the show as a guest analyst and has this to say about Baker Mayfield, in comparison to his peers, “He’s just head and shoulders above everybody else in that division… He might [even] be waist above.”
Whether or not the Buccaneers are able to follow through on these takes/expectations is yet to be seen, however, credit needs to be given where it’s due. It has been a long road to arrive at this level of credibility. It’s a road Buccaneers’ fans should be honored to have walked and feel privileged to enjoy the spoils of.
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