The Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t win the NFC South last year, or at any point in the last 14 years, but NFL.com’s 30-voter panel made them a unanimous choice to unseat the New Orleans Saints on top of the division this season. Winning the Super Bowl must have helped raise their profile.
Read that again: 29 different analysts including Brian Baldinger, Judy Battista, Jeremy Bergman, Ali Bhanpuri, Tom Blair, Gil Brandt, David Carr, Brooke Cersosimo, Jeffri Chadiha, Gennaro Filice, Chase Goodbread, Marcas Grant, DeAngelo Hall, Dan Hanzus, Maurice Jones-Drew, Shaun O’Hara, Dan Parr, Kevin Patra, Scott Pioli, Adam Rank, Chad Reuter, Gregg Rosenthal, Marc Ross, Adam Schein, Marc Sessler, Nick Shook, Matt Smith, Joe Thomas and Lance Zierlein each took a look at the NFC South and put the Bucs down as shoo-in, unchallenged division champs.