If the season ended today, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would miss the playoffs on a fifth-level tiebreaker. Fortunately, there are two weeks left to play and the Buccaneers still have a very promising place in the NFC postseason hunt.
Washington's loss to Carolina on Monday night football pushed the Redskins out of the second Wild Card spot and left that open to a pair of 8-6 teams, the Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers. At the moment, it's the Packers who get to fill that sixth line in the standings, thanks to a marginally better "strength of schedule" figure.