{"id":1037522,"date":"2026-10-26T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1037522\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:45:15","slug":"nfc-playoff-picture-bears-still-in-the-5th-spot-following-sundays-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1037522\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC Playoff Picture: Bears still in the 5th spot following Sunday\u2019s games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With Sunday\u2019s games over, the Chicago Bears remain the top Wild Card team in the NFC. The top four seeds go to the division leaders, and the Bears are a half-game up on the Lions for the fifth seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The NFC North-leading Vikings are the only undefeated team left in the NFL, having knocked off the Indianapolis Colts, 16 to 10. The Lions beat the Packers, 20 to 17, to flip-flop the 6\/7 standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s how the NFC postseason standings look, with all but two teams in the conference yet to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">1. Minnesota Vikings (6-0)<br \/>2. San Francisco 49ers (6-1)<br \/>3. New York Giants (4-2-1)<br \/>4. Carolina Panthers (3-3)<br \/>5. Chicago Bears (5-2)<br \/>6. Detroit Lions (4-2)<br \/>7. Green Bay Packers (4-3, 3-3 NFC)<br \/>8. Seattle Seahawks (4-3, 1-2 NFC)<br \/>9. Atlanta Falcons (3-4, 3-2 NFC)<br \/>10. Los Angeles Rams (3-4, 2-2 NFC)<br \/>11. Philadelphia Eagles (2-4) &#8211; Monday Night Football<br \/>12. Dallas Cowboys (2-4) &#8211; Monday Night Football<br \/>13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-5, 1-0 NFCS)<br \/>14. New Orleans Saints (2-5, 0-1 NFCS, 1-3 NFC)<br \/>15. Arizona Cardinals (2-5, 1-4 NFC)<br \/>16. Washington Commanders (1-4-1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Looking at the NFC North for Week 8: the Packers host the Panthers on Thursday Night Football, the Lions host the Vikings on Sunday, and the Bears play in Seattle on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Sunday\u2019s games over, the Chicago Bears remain the top Wild Card team in the NFC. The top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[88341,741,7,6,84],"class_list":["post-1037522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-chicago-bears-playoffs","tag-chicago-bears-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117506809782030958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}