A spot in the NFC Championship Game will be on the line when the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet in a Divisional Round playoff game on Sunday. Kickoff is set for 6:40 p.m. ET. New Orleans is a 2.5-point favorite in the latest odds from William Hill Sportsbook, while the Over-Under is 53. (See up-to-date odds for every playoff game this week on our NFL odds page.)

Before you make any Saints vs. Buccaneers picks or any other NFL playoff predictions, you NEED to see who SportsLine's Hammerin' Hank Goldberg is backing. 

A beloved national treasure, Hammer enters the Divisional Round on an extended heater: Over the final 10 weeks of the 2019 season and through last week, he is an incredible 48-31-2 on his NFL best bets, a 59 percent cash rate. He's 10-7-2 on his best bets the past six weeks.

Hammer, who has inside sources throughout the league, knows the Saints especially well. In fact, he is a sparkling 20-6-1 in his last 27 against-the-spread picks involving New Orleans, including a win last week when he picked the Saints (-10) to cover!

This is the same handicapper who enjoyed 15 winning seasons in his 17-year ESPN run. In 2017, Hammer competed against 10 top handicappers in the Las Vegas Review-Journal's NFL Challenge and beat them all, finishing 50-29-6 on NFL picks against-the-spread.

Now, Goldberg has locked in another confident against-the-spread pick for Buccaneers vs. Saints. We can tell you he's leaning Under, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

Who wins Saints vs. Buccaneers in the 2021 NFL Playoffs? And which crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread hit HARD? ... Join SportsLine right now to see which side of the Buccaneers vs. Saints spread to jump on, all from the expert who's an incredible 20-6-1 on his last 27 against-the-spread picks involving New Orleans!