The Green Bay Packers’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings eight days ago dealt a significant blow to their hopes for home-field advantage in the 2021 playoffs, but they bounced back on Sunday.
Green Bay can now head into its bye week knowing that they will be no more than one game back of the one-seed when they return to the field in two weeks against the Chicago Bears.
However, charging hard behind the Cardinals and Packers are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whose comeback win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday improved their record to 8-3.
Football Outsiders, however, takes a much more bullish view of the Bucs due to their DVOA performance and DAVE metric, which they use for future projection; FO has these three teams all within a percent of each other, between 31.1% and 31.8%.