The NFL is a week-to-week league. One week, a team could be on a collision course with a Super Bowl win, and the next, that same team could be “toast” and not even make the playoffs. With the ebbs and flows of a season comes reactionary analysis from mainstream NFL media and talk shows. For example, following the 49ers blowout win over the Eagles, analysts and pundits have crowned the 49ers as the big dog of the NFL. For 12 weeks, that title was Philadelphia’s.
Now, with the 49ers coming down the stretch of their schedule, the question becomes, where do the 49ers slot in the NFC playoffs?