What is good, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of the NFC West mixtape.

I'm Rob Stats Guerrera, alongside Dan Bians from the Seahawks Forever podcast.

What's up, Dan?

I'm good, man. We get kind of a

round-robin tournament these next two weeks. We get to focus on two games for the next two weeks,

and we'll know a lot more about this division in about 14 days. It's about time the NFL

schedule makers started to make our lives easier. So thank you, Finally. Yeah, I don't know what that's about.

I was talking to, I was doing a Cardinals preview with a Cardinals content creator earlier this

morning. I was saying the same thing. Like all they have to do is punch parameters into a computer

and the software can spit out the schedule, right? Like what that's where we are with technology. So why can't

they make it so that every division opponent plays each other at least once in each half of the season? I mean, it's kind of ridiculous that, you know, the Seahawks are about to face the Rams next week for the first time this season, and yet we play the Cardinals this week for the second time. Makes no sense to me. And then, And, you know, don't even get me started about week one and 18 for the 49ers and Seahawks. That's just stuff. And then the Rams have only played one game in the NFC West to this point of the season, which doesn't make any sense. And they played like six games in the AFC area. The whole thing is ridiculous. But nonetheless, we are here. It's Niners,

Rams. It's cards. Seahawks. Let's start with the Niners and the Rams because it is the

bigger game because let's face it, Cardinals are poopy and the Seahawks are very good. This is a

massive game, a massive game in the division, obviously a massive game for both teams, not just the 49ers and not just

the Rams. Everything seems to be pointing in the Rams favor in this game, Dan, but it was

earlier when they played a few weeks ago and the Niners won. Well, that's why there's,

there's so much intrigue around all the divisional games the next couple of weeks, because

it's been so tightly packed. I mean, they're all literally within a game of each other there at the top.

They all have, according to the latest New York Times projections, all three teams at 82% or

better to make the playoffs. The division is still up in the air, obviously. All the tiebreakers are still at play. And it's a juggernaut for all three teams. Really, when you look at the Rams and what they face, playing the 49ers this week, then the Seahawks, then the Buccaneers. I mean, if they go on a three-game run here, they'll be in the driver's seat for the number one seed in the NFC, potentially. And then you have this 49ers team that just continues to get racked with injuries, trying to hang on. And if they can take care of business the next two weeks against the Rams and the Cardinals, then their schedule gets a little bit easier. So can't ask for more intrigue within a division than we're going to get in the next two

weeks. And, you know, now that we're at the point in the season where we are, you know, teams,

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