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The 49ers kept their faint division title hopes alive on Sunday with a huge win over the Seattle Seahawks at Candlestick Park. Still, San Francisco has no margin for error, not only in regard to winning the NFC West, but also in making the playoffs.
The Niners presently own the sixth and final playoff spot in the NFC, but at 9-4 they are just a game ahead of the streaking Arizona Cardinals (5-1 in their last six games). So while this weekend's meeting with the Buccaneers may seem like a throw away game, it is most certainly not.
The way Tampa Bay is playing right now, San Francisco could ill afford to take Greg Schiano's squad lightly anyway.
The Buccaneers have successfully shaken off their dreadful 0-8 start and now resemble something close to a formidable club. They have been nothing short of that to four of their last five opponents, beating Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, and Buffalo by an average of 10 points per game.
Even when Tampa Bay was mired in its losing streak it, for the most part, remained competitive, taking the Jets, Saints, Cardinals, and Seahawks to the wire.
