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It wasn't just the Seahawks celebrating Thursday's night win. The 49ers now have a path to the NFC West title, too.
It took 10 wins to get the NFC West title last season, but this year, 12 might only get you third place. You know a division is good when the third-place team has a 91 percent chance of making the playoffs. That's where the 49ers (9-4) are, according to ...
If these two things happen, the 49ers would finish 13-4 and win the NFC West over a 13-4 Rams team based on the division record tiebreaker. If the Seahawks also finish 13-4 in this scenario, the 49ers would have swept them, so they'd win any tiebreaker with Seattle. At 7-to-1 odds to win the NFC West, the 49ers feel like a steal.
The Seattle Seahawks just got a major boost in the national conversation. During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on November 25, ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky said he would be “absolutely shocked” if the NFC Super Bowl representative is not the Los ...
The Seattle Seahawks came back from a 16-point, fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Los Angeles Rams 38-37 in an overtime thriller on Thursday night to officially clinch a playoff spot for the first time since the Pete Carroll era.