The key for the Bucs will be to get healthy. Keyshawn isn't himself with the injury and not having Joey J out there means guys like Karl Williams have to make plays. Rice being banged up isn't good either, he is a huge piece of the puzzle that gets to take advantage of Sapp getting doubled. A healthy team makes the playoffs, but a gimpy team that never gets 100% could be in trouble.
Call me crazy, but this Panthers team looks exactly like last year's version. They will probably end up 9-7 or 10-6 at best, so the Bucs are still not that far behind from being division winners. Key problem though is how far they can go. I still think its next to impossible to win the Super Bowl without being a 1 or 2 seed, winning an extra game and two or three wins on the road is a killer, that being said this team is probably one of the rare ones that could do it.