{"id":1812,"date":"2026-02-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/nfc-seeding-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:00","slug":"nfc-seeding-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/nfc-seeding-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How the NFC bracket was decided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seattle Seahawks finished top of the NFC at 14-3 and took the only bye in the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The field<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Seattle Seahawks 14-3 \u2014 2. Chicago Bears 11-6 \u2014 3. Philadelphia Eagles 11-6 \u2014 4. Carolina Panthers 8-9 \u2014 5. Los Angeles Rams 12-5 \u2014 6. San Francisco 49ers 12-5 \u2014 7. Green Bay Packers 9-7-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seahawks went into the postseason on W7 in the NFC West and +191 on points, which is the number that usually predicts January better than the record does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special teams are the phase nobody writes about until they decide something, and then they are the only thing anyone writes about. This week they decided something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standings page carries the whole table with the splits, the streaks and the dashed line under the seventh seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks took the top seed and the bye. The full NFC field, seed by seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":3066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[94,50,93],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-standings-watch","tag-nfc","tag-playoffs","tag-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}