Why is the NFC South so awful this season?

New Orleans: An aging club with a porous defense, Drew Brees can no longer carry the club to victory.

Atlanta: Injuries and underachievers have derailed what once was a true contender.

Carolina: They're being revealed as the posers that they really are, starting with the quarterback. They benefited greatly from a weak schedule last season.

Tampa Bay: The new home of the monumentally incompetent Lovie Smith. At least the toilets there are clean.

To be fair, many outside the New Orleans organisation tipped the Saints for success, and their poor season so far has come as a surprise. Causes? The offense moves the ball downfield easily enough (ranked second in NFL this season), but doesn't punch it into the end-zone often enough, and makes too many mistakes at critical moments. The defense promises much, but is punctured by big plays too often.

These things go in cycles. By the law of averages, one division will resemble a critical ward each season. The jury's out as to who it will be in 2015.

New Orleans is horrible on the road and can never play a game where both the offense and defense play well.

Atlanta is pretty much the same thing, except they are a bit better on the road. But not by much.

Carolina doesn't have the defense that carried them last season and the offense is among the 3 worst in the NFL

Tampa just flat out sucks everywhere

New Orleans is usually plays great at Home but defiantly now away.

Atlanta doesn't have an offensive line in two years.

Carolina lost their defense, and their offensive line is protecting well for Cam Newton,

Tampa bay is just Tampa Bay

Cause the saints are awful, and lets face it new Orleans is the nfc south.

For starters, every team in that division has a horrible defense. Also, every team in that division, with the exception of the Saints, has a horrible offensive line on top of that.

Would be pretty funny if tampa bay ended up winning it

I guess they can't be the same after Brady runs threw em, eh?