It's all comes down to this.
For the quartet of NFL teams playing on Saturday in Week 18, it's win-or-go-home. Well, almost. The Carolina Panthers visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to open the day's action in a battle for the NFC South. While it might've originally been winner-take-all, that is no longer the case.
Thanks to the Atlanta Falcons' upset win over the Los Angeles Rams on "Monday Night Football" to close Week 17, the Buccaneers are not just a win away from getting into the postseason. If the Falcons defeat the New Orleans Saints and the Buccaneers defeat the Panthers, it would be Carolina getting into the playoffs courtesy of a three-way tiebreaker.
However, the task remains simple for the Panthers: it's win-and-in.
The nightcap is much easier to figure out. The NFC's No. 1 seed is up for grabs as Brock Purdy's San Francisco 49ers host Sam Darnold's Seattle Seahawks.
