49ers' playoff standing improves during Week 14 bye as other NFC contenders clash

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Nfl, Football, Matt Maiocco, San Francisco 49ers, Sports

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The 49ers enjoyed a bump in their playoff position without lifting a finger in their bye week, the last of the NFL season. The other teams battled it out in a blockbuster of matchups with gargantuan postseason implications across the board in both NFL conferences. In the NFC, the Green Bay Packers leapfrogged the Chicago Bears to take the No. 2 overall seed while dropping their division rivals to the seventh and final wild-card position, a precipitous fall for an opponent in one afternoon of work. The 49ers will play those Bears in a Sunday night clash in Week 17, which surely will intrigue. But, first come the Tennessee Titans in a matinee next Sunday, a potent opponent with nothing to lose. On this episode of "49ers Talk," co-hosts Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan look ahead to San Francisco's final four games, a stretch that will test it in all phases and could define the rest of the team's entire season.

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0:19.0	It's time for the stretch run of the regular season.
0:23.9	The 49ers probably did not like to see their by week pushed all the way until week 14 when the schedule came out in the spring.
0:31.4	But now it doesn't look so bad.
0:33.8	That's because the 49ers actually strengthened their position in the playoffs while on their bye week.
0:39.6	They also had an opportunity for some much-needed rest entering the final four games of the regular season.
0:45.3	Jennifer Lee Chan and I got away during the byweek, but we will bring you up to date on where the 49ers stand as a return to work to get prepared to face the Tennessee Titans.
0:54.6	We'll have all that and much more on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now.
1:00.1	Welcome to another episode of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
1:06.1	Introducing your hosts, Matt Mayoko and Jennifer Lee Chan.
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1:28.6	All right.
1:29.1	Well, Jennifer and I are separated by many thousands of miles.
1:33.2	Well, maybe not as many.
1:34.6	You, where are you, Jennifer?
1:36.3	It looks like you're in a hotel room.
1:38.4	I am.
1:39.3	I am in Frankfurt, Germany.
1:41.2	I did a whole Christmas market extravaganza. I went to Vienna, to Dresden,
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