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Last year http://www.49erslockerroom.com/authentic-terrell-owens-jersey , we started a post on the rooting guide with this paragraph: Well, the 49ers have all their lives and continues this year. In fact, they may have gotten a few high scores and extra lives in the process. We are no longer doing rooting guides for the draft. We are doing them for playoff positioning. The 49ers are right now at the top of the NFL as the only unbeaten team in the league left. Barring disaster, they should be primed for a playoff push. A respectable finish to get the worst seeding is 10-6. 11-5 would be a bit better guarantee, but we can go with 10-6 for now. That would require two more wins. Of course, that’s setting the bar pretty low. Ideally Jerry Rice Jersey , we could just skip all this with the expectation the 49ers finish 16-0, rendering these posts pretty useless. In my experience, that never happens. Sorry, but it’s true. Behind the 49ers are the Green Bay Packers , the New Orleans Saints, and the Seattle Seahawks nipping for divisional dominance. The 49ers can handle their business on Monday when they face the Seahawks Womens Kwon Alexander Jersey , though every time you need the 49ers to take care of things themselves, something bizarre happens when the Seahawks are involved. The Saints will have the Atlanta Falcons. That game should be pretty much shut and sealed, but it’s divisional and the Falcons have something to prove. If there’s an upset this week, I’d put my money on that. The Packers will have the Carolina Panthers which is a huge game considering the 49ers performance against them. Below are the games you should care about: Falcons (1-7) at Saints (7-1): Falcons — Most of these are self explanatory, but any losses to the Saints will help. The 49ers will face the Saints and head to head will be the main tiebreaker, if there is a two-way tie. If there is a three-way tie for whatever the reason http://www.49erslockerroom.com/authentic-joshua-garnett-jersey , it goes to divisional records. So that would make a Falcons win all the more important in case the 49ers sit with the Saints and Packers in a three-way record tie. Rams (5-3) at Steelers (4-4): Steelers — The Steelers being a common game means that if the Rams manage to right this ship, and catch up to the 49ers, common opponents could play a factor. The 49ers beat the Steelers so a Rams loss here would apply to a tiebreaker. Panthers (5-3) at Packers (7-2) Panthers — The Packers might not be as great as we thought after that awful performance against the Los Angeles Chargers. The Panthers have a chance to knock them further back into the wildcard. The real tiebreaker is how the 49ers will do against the Packers since head to head is the first tiebreaking rule, but handing them a loss behind the 49ers so we don’t have to worry about that (in case that doesn’t go as planned) never hurt anyone. Plus, they don’t need to have more wins than the 49ers either for that precious one or two seed. Here are tiebreaking procedures in NFL playoff seeding: When the 49ers lost quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo to a torn ACL last season, they initially turned to C.J. Beathard as their new starter.After five straight losses http://www.49erslockerroom.com/authentic-solomon-thomas-jersey , the 49ers decided to give Nick Mullens a shot. They won his first start and generally looked better offensively while closing out the season with three wins in their final eight games. Mullens outdid Beathard in quarterback rating, completion percentage and yards per game while he was piloting the offense.That would seem to give Mullens an edge when it comes to being the No. 2 quarterback this year, but head coach Kyle Shanahan called it “dead even” between the two players. Mullen said this week that he’s fine fighting for the job.“It doesn’t matter what you did in the past,” Mullens said, via the . “On the door it says, ‘What’s Important Now.’ And that’s what I’ve been focusing on and will continue to do every single day. What’s important now: I want to be best at QB drills we did with the coaches today. I embrace it. Competition brings out the best in people.”If Beathard and Mullens both do well in the preseason while other teams find their backup situations lacking Ronnie Lott Jersey White , the competition could wind up being settled with a trade before Week One but there’s much to play out before reaching that point in the calendar.