There was still reason to pay attention<\/a> to the Rams in terms of the wild card seeding, and on paper it benefits Seattle.<\/p>\nThe Seahawks are guaranteed the No. 5 seed if they fail to win the NFC West<\/p>\n
A loss to the 49ers would sting. It would sting hard. But the Rams loss means the Seahawks have avoided the worst case scenario of dropping to the No. 6 seed, which would mean a road game at the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles or the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
Seattle would be locked in as the No. 5 seed and the top wild card with a loss to San Francisco, which would not only mean a rematch with either the Carolina Panthers or Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but there is still the slight chance that the Seahawks could host a Divisional Round game as long as all the wild card road teams win. If it\u2019s the Seahawks, Rams, and Green Bay Packers with a healthy Jordan Love, it\u2019s not totally inconceivable.<\/p>\n
If the Seahawks win or tie vs. 49ers, San Francisco could still fall to the No. 6 seed<\/p>\n
The NFC road to Santa Clara for Super Bowl 60 goes through Lumen Field should the Seahawks win. San Francisco can either be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed depending on whether or not the Rams beat the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. If the Rams win, the 49ers drop to No. 6 and will play either the Bears or Eagles on the road. Should the Rams lose to even this Cardinals team, San Francisco would face either Carolina or Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
Long story short: Seattle will either be the No. 1 seed with a win or a tie or the No. 5 seed with a loss. The 49ers would be the No. 1 seed with a win but their fate as the 5- or 6-seed depends on the Rams vs. Cardinals outcome.<\/p>\n
This was almost the perfect weekend for the Seahawks. Key word is almost. This is the next best thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks have their sights set on the number one seed in the NFC, but they now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,74664,85467,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-640232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-playoff-picture","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-scores-and-results","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115808274204804043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640232","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=640232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}