{"id":685950,"date":"2026-01-18T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:09:30","slug":"nfc-playoff-picture-rams-go-to-seattle-if-they-beat-bears-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685950\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC playoff picture: Rams go to Seattle if they beat Bears on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If the Los Angeles Rams beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday, they will be heading to Seattle to face the Seahawks in the NFC Championship game. There was a chance that L.A. could host the NFC Championship if the 49ers pulled the upset, but that was not the case and it wasn\u2019t close. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldgulls.com\/seattle-seahawks-scores-results\/160347\/seahawks-vs-49ers-score-nfl-playoffs-2026-blowout-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Seahawks beat the 49ers 41-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So now the Rams know what\u2019s ahead if they can do what the Niners and Bills couldn\u2019t on Saturday and win a road divisional playoff game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At least the Bears seem to be a lot worse than the Broncos and Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Seattle held the 49ers to two field goals and forced three turnovers, including two by former Rams linebacker Ernest Jones. Traded to the Titans for almost nothing in 2024, Jones has been a stalwart on defense for Mike Macdonald\u2019s defense since the Seahawks acquired him at the trade deadline last year. Jones had a forced fumble on Niners tight end Jake Tonges, then picked off Brock Purdy in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones was a second-team All-Pro this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Rams receiver Cooper Kupp, trying to win his second career Super Bowl, had 5 catches for 60 yards. A slow season all year, the 32-year-old had probably his best game as a Seahawks player. Running back Kenneth Walker III had three touchdowns and 119 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the early game, the Broncos beat the Bills 33-30 in overtime but quarterback Bo Nix broke his ankle at the very end of the game and will miss the rest of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams now face the Bears and look to advance to the NFC Championship. If they do, it\u2019ll be a rematch of arguably the season\u2019s most exciting game which happened in the same stadium barely a month ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Los Angeles Rams beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday, they will be heading to Seattle to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,83993,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-685950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams-playoffs","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115914851323391876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685950","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=685950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}