The NFL weekend kicked off on Thursday with Christmas Day games followed by two games on Saturday, so we are a good chunk of the way through Week 17 already, believe it or not. The Seattle Seahawks and Carolina Panthers squared off in a game with unexpectedly high playoff implications on Sunday.<\/p>\n
For the Seahawks, the win keeps them in first place in the NFC while the Panthers needed to win to stay atop the NFC South and in the playoffs. Luckily, the Miami Dolphins knocked off the Bucs and kept the Panthers in first place.<\/p>\n
The biggest matchup of Week 17 was on Sunday night when the Chicago Bears traveled to the San Francisco 49ers. Both teams were 11-4, but the 49ers pulled it out in the end to keep pressure on Seattle.<\/p>\n
The NFC West looks like it will come down to Week 18 when the Los Angeles Rams draw the lowly Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers could be playing a very high stakes game for control of the NFC.<\/p>\n
The Rams play on Monday night this week, but it is against the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n
1. Seattle Seahawks (13-3)
2. San Francisco 49ers (12-4)
3. Los Angeles Rams (11-4)
4. Arizona Cardinals (3-12)<\/p>\n
Updated NFC playoff picture<\/p>\n
There are still a handful of teams that can be the one seed.<\/p>\n
The Bears have the tiebreaker over the Eagles thanks to head-to-head record.<\/p>\n
1. Seattle Seahawks (13-3) – x
2. Chicago Bears (11-5) – x
3. Philadelphia Eagles (11-5) – x
4. Carolina Panthers (8-8)
5. San Francisco 49ers (12-4) – x
6. Los Angles Rams (11-4) – x
7. Green Bay Packers (9-6-1) – x
11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9)<\/p>\n
x – clinched a playoff spot<\/p>\n
The only playoff spot still up for grabs is in the NFC South. One team will be the champs and the other will be out between the Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL weekend kicked off on Thursday with Christmas Day games followed by two games on Saturday, so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,160042,82],"class_list":["post-374772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-seattle-seahawks-playoffs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}