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The 49ers will Likely Have a First Round Bye in the Playoffs

That's because the Eagles lost their third straight game -- this time to the Seahawks.
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The 49ers will Likely Have a First Round Bye in the Playoffs
The 49ers will Likely Have a First Round Bye in the Playoffs

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Monday was a great day for the 49ers, and they didn't even do anything.

That's because the Eagles lost their third straight game -- this time to the Seahawks. The Eagles haven't won since the 49ers embarrassed and exposed them in Philadelphia. And now the 49ers have a one-game lead for the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoff race.

If the 49ers win two of their last three games, they will secure the No. 1 seed, a first-round bye and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. That means the 49ers can lose to either the Ravens, the Commanders or the Rams and still clinch that precious No. 1 seed, which they had when they went to the Super Bowl in 2019.

Here is the current seeding in the NFC:

1. 49ers (11-3)

2. Cowboys (10-4)

3. Lions (10-4)

4. Buccaneers (7-7)

5. Eagles (10-4)

6. Vikings (7-7)

7. Rams (7-7)

Of those teams, the 49ers already have beaten the Cowboys, the Eagles, the Buccaneers and the Rams. Of those four, the team that probably represents the biggest threat is the Rams, considering Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp both are finally healthy and that team is hot.

The Vikings beat the 49ers in Week 7, but that was with Kirk Cousins, who's out for the season with a torn Achilles' tendon. Now their quarterback is Nick Mullens, and I doubt he'll beat the 49ers in the playoffs.

That leaves the Lions, whom the 49ers haven't faced yet this season. They probably pose the biggest threat to the 49ers of any team in the NFC. And yet, their quarterback is Jared Goff, and the 49ers own him. And he knows it.

Monday was a good day for the 49ers.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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