{"id":281081,"date":"2025-10-06T05:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T05:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:53:17","slug":"nfc-playoff-picture-the-49ers-are-in-first-place-after-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281081\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC Playoff Picture: The 49ers are in first place after five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers are the top seed in the NFC After Week 5. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Philadelphia Eagles entered Week 5 undefeated at 4-0 but lost to the Denver Broncos, and because of tiebreakers, the 4-1 49ers move ahead of the Super Bowl champions into the top spot in the conference. That\u2019s despite starting the backup QB starting for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are four teams at 4-1 in the NFC, but only one has four NFC wins and that is the 49ers. That is the first tiebreaker. The Eagles are 3-0 with the Buccaneers at 2-1 and the Lions 1-1 in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the NFC West, the 49ers also have three division wins and would have kept them in the top spot regardless of the Seattle Seahawks outcome. But Seattle lost in embarrassing fashion to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a moral victory of the 49ers. The Seahawks and Rams are both 3-2 and a game back of the 49ers. The Arizona Cardinals\u2019 inexplicable loss to the Tennessee Titans means they aren\u2019t serious.<\/p>\n<p>NFC Playoff Picture after Week 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers are the top seed in the NFC After Week 5. Who would have thought?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,1246,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-281081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115325672352273799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}