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The News God > Blog > Sports > Latest Sports News: Seahawks surge, Rams falter, 49ers & Saints hold steady in playoff race – Field Gulls
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Latest Sports News: Seahawks surge, Rams falter, 49ers & Saints hold steady in playoff race – Field Gulls

Sampson Gaddah
Last updated: November 28, 2019 12:31 am
Sampson Gaddah
November 28, 2019
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Playoff Odds, Week 13Bye Odds (FO)Game of the Week, non-Seahawks category

Three teams in the Seattle Seahawks’ playoff crosshairs needed wins in Week 12 to keep their postseason hopes from cratering. They all lost. And the Seahawks helped!

Seattle’s convincing 17-9 victory in Philadelphia damaged the Eagles’ bid substantially, dropping them to 5-6; they survive only because the Dallas Cowboys also lost and lead the NFC East by a single, puny game.

The Los Angeles Rams might want to forget Week 12 altogether. As good of a week as it was for the Seahawks, that’s how bad it was for the Rams. They lost by 39, the biggest home defeat in franchise history, and Los Angeles continued a run of — no need to mince words — bad play in certain phases.

  • In their last three games, the Rams have 26 offensive points, for an average of 8.7;
  • In their last nine games, they’re 3-6;
  • In the month of November, Jared Goff threw zero touchdowns.

Somehow, either completely predictably or out of the blue, depending on how much credit you want to give Sean McVay for the once-fearsome Rams offense, Goff now has more interceptions (12) than touchdown tosses (11) this season. Anyone who wants to kill some time this afternoon could report back with the last team who made the playoffs on the back of a QB who threw more picks than scores. Not even Trent Dilfer in 2000 with the stacked Baltimore Ravens defense was guilty of that sin.

Oh, and the Carolina Panthers lost too, so they’re also 5-6 and officially on the brink of elimination. Unoffically, they’re cooked in a year where it’ll take at least 10 wins to get a wild card in the NFC. By the time the Seahawks roll into Raleigh for Week 15, Carolina could be mathematically eliminated, easy, with nothing left to play for besides draft position and Christian McCaffrey fantasy points.

Today in the playoff odds table I’m gonna do something slightly different — combining three different sources of data to spit out a composite playoff odds number. If you don’t like it, there is literally nothing you can do to stop me.

Playoff Odds, Week 13

Team Record Football Outsiders 538.com Historical odds Composite (unscientific)
Team Record Football Outsiders 538.com Historical odds Composite (unscientific)
SF 10-1 99.8 99+ 100 99+
NO 9-2 99.8 99+ 98 99+
SEA 9-2 98 97 98 97.7.
MIN 8-3 95.7 94 92 93.9
GB 8-3 91.8 91 92 91.6
DAL 6-5 77.4 65 46 62.8
– – – – – – – – – – – –
PHI 5-6 26 37 13 25.3
LAR 6-5 8.6 15 46 23.2
CAR 5-6 0.7 1 13 4.9

On a historical level, 6-5 teams make the playoffs almost half the time. The problem for the 6-5 Rams, however, is that seldom are the two wild-card teams at 9-2 and 8-3 after 12 weeks. The possibility exists of course that either the Packers, Seahawks or Vikings will hit a rough spell and drop to 9-7 or 10-6, allowing the Rams to sneak in. But then of course, I’d refer back to the part of the post where we established that LA isn’t exactly looking like a team about to win four out of five.

The Rams meet the Arizona Cardinals twice to bookend their final five games. In between there’s trips to Dallas and San Francisco, plus a revenge game against Seattle, for this:


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If they can pull 4-1 out of their hat while another team goes 1-4, more power to them.

Few 5-6 teams make the playoffs. This is intuitive, but also leans on plenty of statistical evidence. The Eagles caught fire in December of 2018 to turn a 5-6 mark into a playoff appearance. If they’re going to do it again this season, it’ll be by overtaking the Cowboys for the East.

With the assumption that the NFCE winner will be the 4 seed, three other division winners will be fighting for a coveted bye and a home playoff game in the divisional round.

Wouldn’t you like to know where each team sits in that race?

Bye Odds (FO)

Team Record Bye odds
Team Record Bye odds
NO 9-2 67.3
SF 10-1 58.9
SEA 9-2 33.8
MIN 8-3 23.6
GB 8-3 15.5
DAL 6-5 0.9

The Saints have a four-game division lead so they’re given a two out of three chance to finish in the top 2. The tie-breaker is worth 8 percentage points to the Vikings, who host the Packers Week 16.

It’s a tired statement, but if it was offered to Seahawks fans before the season began, who among you wouldn’t take a one in three chance at a first-round bye with five games to play? That’s the beauty of close wins counting as much as blowout victories.

Game of the Week, non-Seahawks category

Ravens-Rams delivered everything a Seahawks fan could have hoped for last week, and now it’s the 49ers’ turn to take a crack at the best team in football, in Baltimore. (Look at the weighted DVOA, people.)

In a parallel universe, this matchup pits the wily vet Colin Kaepernick, one of the pioneers of modern mo

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