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NFC third-quarter report card

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Remember when the league announced its realignment plan and, after everyone perused the new divisions, all the experts looked at the NFC South and immediately anointed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a lock to run roughshod through a quartet that allegedly featured three pushovers? Sure you remember because, like all the pundits, you agreed. C'mon, fess up, now. The NFC South was supposed to be a division in which one club was headed to the playoffs and the others were, well, going south. PA ...

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