Five NFC teams have clinched a playoff spot, but only one team has its division locked up: the Philadelphia Eagles. There are still four teams vying for the number one seed: the three NFC West teams (Seahawks, Rams, and 49ers) and the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
Chicago\u2019s path to number one would be to win out while having the Seattle Seahawks lose one of their remaining two games (at Carolina, at San Francisco).<\/p>\n
If the Bears win at least one more game, they\u2019ll finish no lower than the two seed.<\/p>\n
If the Bears lose their final two, they could drop as far as the seven seed.<\/p>\n
The Bears are in San Fransicso for Week 17, and host the Lions in Week 18.<\/p>\n
NFC Playoff standings after Week 16<\/p>\n
1. x-Seattle Seahawks (12-3) x – Clinched a playoff spoty – Clinched the division<\/p>\n Detroit Lions (8-6) The Lions need to win out and have the Packers lose out to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n The Buccaneers\u2019 only path to the postseason is to win the NFC South over the Panthers. Carolina is at Tampa Bay in Week 18.<\/p>\n Minnesota Vikings (7-8) NFC North standings after Week 16<\/p>\n 1. x-Chicago Bears (11-4)<\/strong> The Bears\u2019 magic number to take the North is 1. One win or a Packers loss and Chicago claims the crown.<\/p>\n The Packers host the Ravens on Saturday night, and if they lose, the Bears are division champs.<\/p>\n If Green Bay wins, and the Bears beat the \u2018Niners, then Chicago takes the NFC North and clinches the two seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five NFC teams have clinched a playoff spot, but only one team has its division locked up: the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,212115,37272,5386,1818,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-466218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-bears-playoffs","10":"tag-chicago-bears-news","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115767957598334956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466218","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=466218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2. x-Chicago Bears (11-4)<\/strong>
3. xy-Philadelphia Eagles (10-5)
4. Carolina Panthers (8-7)
5. x-San Francisco 49ers (11-4)
6. x-Los Angeles Rams (11-4)
7. Green Bay Packers (9-5-1)<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-8)<\/p>\n
Dallas Cowboys (6-8-1)
Atlanta Falcons (6-9)
New Orleans Saints (5-10)
Washington Commanders (4-11)
Arizona Cardinals (3-12)
New York Giants (2-13)<\/p>\n
2. x-Green Bay Packers (9-5-1)
3. Detroit Lions (8-7)
4. Minnesota Vikings (7-8)<\/p>\n