The San Francisco 49ers suffered their first loss of the season. Here\u2019s how the playoff picture and divisional standings shake out.<\/p>\n
NFC West standings before Week 8<\/p>\n
1. San Francisco 49ers (6-1)<\/p>\n
2. Seattle Seahawks (4-3)<\/p>\n
3. Los Angeles Rams (3-4)<\/p>\n
4. Arizona Cardinals (2-5)<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll have a more thorough update about the division first thing Monday morning, but here\u2019s a look at the standings.<\/p>\n
The 49ers are 3-0 in the division. Seattle is 1-1. The Rams are 0-2 — something that could come back to bite them down the line.<\/p>\n
NFC playoff standings after Week 7<\/p>\n
1. Minnesota Vikings (6-0)<\/p>\n
2. San Francisco 49ers (6-1)<\/p>\n
3. New York Giants (4-2-1)<\/p>\n
4. Carolina Panthers (3-3)<\/p>\n
7. Green Bay Packers (4-3)<\/p>\n
8. Seattle Seahawks (4-3)<\/p>\n
9. Atlanta Falcons (3-4, 3-2 NFC)<\/p>\n
10. Los Angeles Rams (3-4, 2-2 NFC)<\/p>\n
11. Philadelphia Eagles (2-4) – Monday Night Football<\/p>\n
12. Dallas Cowboys (2-4) – Monday Night Football<\/p>\n
13. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-5, 1-0 NFCS)<\/p>\n
14. New Orleans Saints (2-5, 0-1 NFCS, 1-3 NFC)<\/p>\n
15. Arizona Cardinals (2-5, 1-4 NFC)<\/p>\n
16. Washington Commanders (1-4-1)<\/p>\n
The 49ers have a date with the Vikings in a few weeks. So they\u2019ll have an opportunity to regain the No. 1 seed. The Niners would also have the head-to-head advantage over Minnesota if it came down to a tiebreaker at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n
A quick look at the Vikings\u2019 schedule makes you think they\u2019ll be lucky to make the playoffs, let alone earn a bye. Yes, they\u2019re undefeated, but the Vikings face the Lions twice, Bills, Packers, Niners, Falcons, Panthers, Patriots, and Bears to end the season. Those are all coin-flip games.<\/p>\n
J.J. McCarthy leading the Giants to a division win would sum up the NFL: You never know what\u2019s going to happen. McCarthy wasn\u2019t great on a down-to-down basis, but he made a few big-time plays when New York needed him to. There\u2019s still a lot of football to play.<\/p>\n
Carolina leads the NFC South, but they took it to the chin in Week 7. That division is far from solved. Tampa Bay\u2019s defense looks for real. I wouldn\u2019t count them out.<\/p>\n
Green Bay has the talent, but they are not a buttoned-up team.<\/p>\n
The Seahawks had over 400 yards against the Chiefs, but are you scared of that offense? Their defense is scary, but Sam Darnold is inevitable.<\/p>\n
The Falcons are inconsistent, but they\u2019ve proven they can beat anyone on any given Sunday. They\u2019re talented, but probably a year away.<\/p>\n
The longer the Rams stick around, the more chances they get to get healthy and make a playoff run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers suffered their first loss of the season. Here\u2019s how the playoff picture and divisional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,8376,48327,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-508114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers-playoffs","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}