Buccaneers answer important question versus Jaguars

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are currently a favorite to make the playoffs as the NFC South champions. The division is the weakest in the NFL by a healthy margin, and emerging as the top franchise amongst that group of teams was never that much in doubt.

The questions start with playoff viability for this roster. While the Bucs may make the playoffs by virtue of division success, doing well in the playoffs is no guarantee. 

However, the good news for the Bucs is that their dominance today indicates success in the playoffs is not out of the question.

Tampa has won its share of games against easier opponents this season. Getting multiple games against the likes of the Panthers and the Falcons is not something that everyone gets, although everyone would like that opportunity very much.

The Bucs have done well to beat these bad teams (except for the Falcons once), but the overall product on the season has been dominance against bad teams and struggles against the good teams. That doesn't bode well for playoff success hopes.

All of that changed today.

Dominating a bad team is one thing. Dominating a team like the Jaguars is another.

While Jacksonville has fallen off a little from their early-season heat, their roster is still constructed to make for a very hard out in a competitive AFC, and the Bucs dominating that group says a lot about the ceiling of this group.

Despite all of the misses and rough spots of this year, being able to put a game like this together at the end of the season and during a playoff push says everything about whether or not this team is capable of winning.

A game like this tells us the Buccaneers can beat anyone in the NFL when they play like this. Whether or not that happens is the only thing that is in question.