Niners Nation
And that’s a wrap for the NFC West. The final games are over, the standings are solidified, and three teams are going to the postseason. Given that there are more playoff teams nowadays in everybody-gets-a-trophy NFL playoff brackets, it’s not as huge as it was a decade ago when three teams from the same division locked up all the wild card spots. That said, it’s still impressive and should show you just how rugged the NFC West is.
The good news with the 49ers’ loss on Saturday is that they notch the third-place schedule. Again, this is on paper, but maybe that will quiet everyone who complained that their 2025 schedule was too easy, since it’s moderately harder. On paper, anyway.
So the Super Bowl will run through Seattle (goody), the 49ers and Los Angeles Rams are here for the fun, and the postseason begins this week. Here’s your final recap:
I’m not going to rehash this game because I’m still frustrated about The Great Disappointment decidign to rear its ugly head now rather than later.
In case you didn’t know, the San Francisco 49ers are not going to be the No. 1 Seed and have the NFC West crown. That was decided on Saturday night when the Seattle Seahawks dominated the 49ers 13-3. There are a lot of bad plays we can point fingers at on the 49ers. The Christian McCaffrey interception is one of the more notable ones. The 49ers are just not as good as the Seahawks right now. That’s all there is to it.
If we’re really being fair, with all the injuries, the 49ers might be playing on house money. After Fred Warner went down, it was hard to see how the 49ers could win it all with their defense decaying to the injury bug. Yet, they kept at it. What resulted was a good example set for the rookies and second years: don’t quit. They didn’t.
Yes, three road games to get to the Super Bowl is a tough, tough task for the 49ers this year, but given the adversity this team has fought through, there are a lot of things to be positive about for the future. This was supposed to be the year they unloaded a lot of salary cap and went younger. Yet they still win 12 games? I’ll take that. I’ll also defend the decision not to get aggressive at the trade deadline. The 49ers team you saw last night had way, way too many holes that a one-year rental was going to fix. Best to take those draft picks into 2026 and fill out the defense.
And the funny thing about all of this? It’s not over yet. Maybe the 49ers are like the 2010 Packers, where they go on the road in the NFC and tear things up to win it all. There are plenty of things to work on, but there’s only so much a team that has suffered as...
