The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have not been a healthy team this season, which has been a key reason for their eventual failure to make the playoffs — and one reason to be optimistic about next season. Injury impact tends not to carry over from one year to the next.
Over at ESPN, Kevin Seifert ranked every potential playoff (yes, including the Bucs) on their health, and decided that the Bucs ranked 12th out of 14 teams — ahead of only the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins, mostly because those two teams just lost their starting quarterbacks.