There’s just a sliver of playoff hope left, but this team hasn’t been mathematically eliminated yet. At 4-8, Seattle is amazingly just two games behind the seventh-seeded San Francisco 49ers (say that five times fast), but the Seahawks have a mountain of opponents to pass to catch the 49ers, and just five games to do it.
San Francisco holds the final Wild Card spot. To get it, Seattle will have to maintain a better final record (or hold a tie-breaker) than San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Carolina, Atlanta, New Orleans, New York Giants, and Chicago. Eight teams, that’s how many spots in the standings they have to move
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