{"id":654041,"date":"2026-01-04T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/654041\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:01:23","slug":"49ers-george-kittle-is-a-cardinals-fan-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/654041\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers&#8217; George Kittle is a Cardinals fan this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor showing for the No. 1 seed and NFC West title, the San Francisco 49ers are scoreboard watching on Sunday with playoff seeding on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The main game they\u2019re watching? The Arizona Cardinals\u2019 season finale against the Los Angeles Rams. Tight end George Kittle wasn\u2019t shy about it following San Francisco\u2019s loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He even name-dropped a couple of Cardinals in the process.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Go Cardinals&#8221; \u2026 George Kittle has suddenly become a MASSIVE Arizona Cardinals fan.<\/p>\n<p>(If the Cardinals beat the Rams tomorrow, the Niners secure the No. 5 seed and face either the Bucs or Panthers in the Wild Card round. If the Cardinals lose, the Niners slip to the No. 6 seed\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WekryGNOHd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WekryGNOHd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KNBR (@KNBR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNBR\/status\/2007686630132371695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">January 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate losing, I hate losing to the Seahawks, but hey, we get to play football next week. Whoever it is and whatever happens, go Cardinals,\u201d Kittle told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy confidence is the exact same. I\u2019m looking to forward to whoever we play. Let\u2019s go (Budda Baker) and <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nfl\/arizona-cardinals\/2025-arizona\/3605690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trey McBride<\/a>,\u201d the 49ers tight end added.<\/p>\n<p>Following Saturday\u2019s loss to Seattle, San Francisco has gone from potentially getting a first-round bye as the top seed in the NFC to fighting for the fifth or sixth seed.<\/p>\n<p>It all comes down to Cardinals-Rams.<\/p>\n<p>With a Cardinals win, the 49ers would enter the playoffs as the No. 5 seed. The Rams, meanwhile, would be the No. 6 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of having to travel to Philadelphia or Chicago for the NFC Wild Card round, the 49ers would instead draw whoever wins the NFC South between Tampa Bay and Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>An Arizona loss would mean San Francisco falls to the No. 6 seed and Los Angeles slides in one spot higher and gets the NFC South draw.<\/p>\n<p>From an odds standpoint, the latter option seems much more likely to happen given the Cardinals are 14.5-point road underdogs, according to Fan Duel Sportsbook. Arizona also hasn\u2019t won since Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tdrake4sports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Tdrake4sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a poor showing for the No. 1 seed and NFC West title, the San Francisco 49ers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,1632,2604,1327,7,1631,6,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-654041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115838614878499775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654041","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=654041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}