A quarter of the way through the 2019 season, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers look to be in the driver’s seat of the NFC South due to injuries around the rest of the division; they currently sit with a 2-2 record on the year after Sunday’s victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Head coach Bruce Arians has seemed to expedite the rebuild in Tampa, and has quarterback Jameis Winston playing to his highest level yet.
While data and analytics is not the sexy approach to understanding football, all of the teams near the top of the league have bought in.