NFC Championship Predictions & Odds 2021/2022

• No surprise that the reigning NFL champs, the Tampa Bay Bucs, are the favorite here
• The Green Bay Packers led by QB Aaron Rodgers will return just as strong
• Without QB Matthew Stafford, the Detroit Lions are the longshot for this prop bet

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The NFC produced last year’s Super Bowl winners, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and they return for the 2021/22 season with the GOAT Tom Brady still under center and remain the favorite here to repeat, so we share our predictions, odds, and picks for this exciting prop bet.

NFC Championship Odds

Odds taken from DraftKings Sportsbook, updated on May 17, 2021.

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Best not to bet against the GOAT, Tom Brady, the old QB with plenty of fuel left in the tank and just as many playmakers as last season returning.

Pick:

Tampa Bay Bucs

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Like so many other NFL franchises this offseason, the Bucs face some difficult salary cap limitations, so general manager Jason Licht will have to work some magic if he hopes to get most of the veterans from his championship team to return.

Chances are the main offensive players in Tampa Bay – meaning QB Tom Brady, WRs Mike Evans, and Chris Godwin, TEs Rob Gronkowski and OJ Howard, and RB Leonard Fournette – will stay on the roster while everyone else will be fighting over the remaining budget scraps.

The defense played a major role in the team’s season-long run for the Lombardi Trophy, so it will be critical for Licht to keep his solid D-line in place – Ndamukong Suh, Vita Vea, and William Gholston – a group who kept opposing quarterbacks panicking the entire time.

Green Bay Packers

Due to salary cap issues, the Green Bay Packers could be forced to move on from highly productive running back Aaron Jones, causing a huge gap in their rushing attack that will need to be addressed during free agency or in the upcoming draft.

Still on the roster in Green Bay, thankfully, is QB Aaron Rodgers, the future Hall of Famer who earned the league’s coveted MVP award last season for the third time overall, and he will likely still get to target arguably one of the best receivers in the business, Davante Adams, the deep threat who turned heads all last season.

In the upcoming draft, expect the Packers to look for help with the offense, looking for a tackle and a young wide receiver, plus the team could use some secondary help, so they will most likely use the draft to snag a talented cornerback, too.

Los Angeles Rams

Now that the Rams have Matthew Stafford under center after a trade with the Detroit Lions, head coach Sean McVay and offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell have the type of talent in that star position who can consistently execute their brand of offense.

Stafford will have plenty of outstanding targets, including WRs Cooper Kupp, Robert Woods, and Josh Reynolds, but he also has the benefit now of a strong tight end tandem in Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett who can both serve as effective blockers and pass receivers off the line.

The team’s biggest playmaker remains DT Aaron Donald, arguably the best player in the league and last season’s defensive player of the year, his third time receiving those honors, and with his veteran presence on the field chasing down enemy QBs with his nonstop engine running this NFC team looks balanced on both sides of the ball.

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Detroit Lions

Having lost Stafford in the offseason in a trade with the Rams, now the Lions must make do with Jared Goff as their starting quarterback, a Super Bowl veteran who needed a fresh place to reinvent himself after struggling for a couple of seasons.

It’s not like Goff will lack effective receivers to target – he has deep threat Kenny Golladay, Mavin Jones, and slot king Danny Amendola on his team now, plus the young talented (and soft-handed) TE T.J. Hockenson, who is just waiting to have a breakout season.

New head coach Dan Campbell will not get too much time to catch on or too many breaks in Detroit since that team is talented enough to start winning right away, but it remains a mystery why the Lions have not been able to find more wins than losses lately and it will be up to him to begin finding success where others could not.

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