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December 04, 2006 2:01 PM

Hawks stand third in NFC

Staff report - Staff writer

The NFL's conference standings show the Seahawks third in the NFC. The league has not yet updated the standings to reflect the Panthers' loss tonight in Philadelphia. The way I see things, the top four in the NFC at present are: Chicago (10-2), New Orleans (8-4), Seattle (8-4) and Dallas (8-4). The Saints sit in the No. 2 seed for now because they win a three-way tiebreaker with Seattle and Dallas on conference record. Seattle sits ahead of Dallas for the third spot, also thanks to a better conference record. The Giants, Atlanta, Carolina and Philadelphia would be in a four-way tie for the fifth spot. Tiebreaking rules are here. ESPN lists the top six in the NFC as: Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle, Dallas, the Giants and Philadelphia.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.