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Jake Pickering
Eureka
The unavoidable fact that one of the NFC South's four terrible teams is going to make the playoffs this season as a National Football League division winner is a travesty. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers, Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints are four of the worst teams in the National Football Conference.
However, since one of the NFC South's four flailing franchises will win their subpar division by default, one of these embarrassingly bad NFC South teams will be playing in the playoffs at home in January 2026, while more worthy National Football Conference teams from other divisions (such as the Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys) are forced to watch this year's NFL playoffs from the sidelines instead of being in the fight for a wild card entry into the postseason festivities.
Fans of professional football should demand a rule change in time for next season whereby no NFL division winner with a losing record should ever be allowed into the playoffs again. Instead, an additional wild card team with a winning record should be chosen to replace any division winner with a losing record in the playoffs.