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Thanks in part to an old friend in kicker Zane Gonzalez, the Atlanta Falcons<\/a> walked off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> en route to a 29-28 upset on Thursday night. Tampa Bay’s loss, their fourth in the last five games, moved them to 7-7 and half a game behind the new NFC South-leading 7-6 Panthers.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Now, according to The Athletic<\/em>‘s NFL Playoff Simulator<\/a><\/em>, Carolina has a 47-percent chance to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n Tonight’s result has also given the Panthers an opportunity to clinch the NFC South crown by the end of Week 16<\/a>. If they can win their next two games\u2014against the New Orleans Saints<\/a> this weekend and the Bucs on Dec. 21\u2014then the division, for the first time since their magical 2015 campaign, is theirs.<\/p>\n Welcome back to meaningful December football<\/a>, Carolina!<\/p>\n Follow\u00a0@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This article originally appeared on Panthers Wire: Updated playoff odds for the Panthers following the Bucs’ Week 15 loss<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Carolina Panthers are getting closer to their first division title in nearly a decade. Thanks in part to an old friend in kicker Zane Gonzalez, the Atlanta Falcons walked off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers en route to a 29-28 upset on Thursday night. Tampa Bay’s loss, their fourth in the last five games, moved … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/What-is-the-Panthers-updated-playoff-probability-after-Buccaneers-loss.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13024,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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