The SportsLine Inside the Lines team and Projection Model have crunched the numbers and identified the best and worst matchups for every NFC team, from Seattle to Carolina

This article was originally published on www.fansided.com as Offense vs. defense: Power ranking every NFC unit in the playoffs.

As the division champ, Carolina will host the Los Angeles Rams in the first round of the NFC playoffs next weekend.

There were numerous headlines throughout the regular season. The NFC North was the only division that saw each team win at least eight games. Other than the NFC West, it’s hard to argue that the NFC North wasn’t the most competitive NFL division.

As an NFC Playoffs showdown with the Eagles looms, this is the 49ers fatal flaw that will derail their Super Bowl hopes.

As the offseason kicks off, here’s the biggest need for every NFC team that missed the playoffs to address:

Athlon Sports created the Red Zone Plus/Minus as an exclusive metric that combines NFL teams' efficiency in the red zone on both offense and defense. With the 2025 NFL regular season in the books, the final red zone plus/minus rankings paint a fairly accurate picture of where teams fell in the standings.