{"id":621328,"date":"2025-12-23T03:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/621328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:36:27","slug":"49ers-vs-colts-live-discussion-philip-rivers-can-help-the-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/621328\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers vs. Colts live discussion: Philip Rivers can help the Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Okay, so Philip Rivers almost had a dream comeback after ending his five-year retirement to play for the Indianapolis Colts. The Seattle Seahawks thwarted Rivers with an 18-16 victory thanks to six Jason Myers field goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Philip Rivers is 4-0 against the San Francisco 49ers. A win for the Colts at home on Monday Night Football keeps them alive in the playoff hunt and severely damages the 49ers\u2019 chances of winning the NFC West. They don\u2019t have to worry about missing the playoffs, as they\u2019ve already clinched through the Detroit Lions\u2019 loss on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s at stake for the Seahawks?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As a reminder: For the Seahawks to clinch the NFC West, one of the things that must happen is the 49ers losing either versus the Colts or the Chicago Bears this Sunday. One outcome seems more probable than the other, but stranger things have happened!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">What we do know is that if the 49ers win against the Colts, Seattle cannot clinch the No. 1 seed in Week 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">ESPN and ABC have you covered tonight at 5:15 pm PT. Let\u2019s go, Colts!<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/auth\/login?itm_medium=sidebar&amp;itm_source=fieldgulls&amp;returnPath=%2Fauth%2Fsso%3FreturnTo%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.fieldgulls.com%252F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sign up for a user account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sign up for a user account<\/a> and get:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Comment on articles, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rec comments, community posts<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New, improved notifications system!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, so Philip Rivers almost had a dream comeback after ending his five-year retirement to play for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[391,113,7,392,27314,6,3725,252,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-621328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-jason-myers","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philip-rivers","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115766795398337350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621328","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=621328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}