Thread on who the Bucs will face in the wild-card round of playoffs. Tampa Bay knows it will be the No. 5 or 6 seed in NFC -- they can clinch 5 if they just win, or if today's Rams-Seahawks loser also loses next week. Otherwise, they'd be the 6 seed.

If the Bucs are the No. 5 seed, they'll open the playoffs at the NFC East champ, and while Washington is ahead there, all four teams are still in play, so that's still very much up in the air.

If the Bucs are the No. 6 seed, they'll face the No. 3 seed, but that is also still wide-open, between the Packers, Saints, Seahawks and Rams.

There are six games that will determine those top 3 seeds: Packers-Titans and Seahawks-Rams this week, and Packers-Bears, Saints-Panthers, Seahawks-49ers and Rams-Cards next week. Six games means 64 different non-tie outcomes, and all four teams have a chance to be the 3 seed.

Out of the 64 outcomes, 22 have the Saints as the 3 seed, 18 have the Seahawks, 14 have the Rams and 10 have the Packers. The tiebreakers can get involved, past NFC record and common-game record to even strength of victory.

This is all to say that the Bucs could still face eight different opponents in the playoffs -- four as the No. 5, four as the No. 6, and there's certainly strong incentive for Bucs to win vs. Falcons and get in as the No. 5 for highest wild card seeding throughout NFC playoffs.