AP photo: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) charges up field on a keeper during last Sunday’s contest against the Miami Dolphins

The thing the San Francisco 49ers have going for them in their remaining five games and three of those games include this Sunday in Chicago, then the New York Jets, and the Los Angeles Rams. Those three teams are the next three coming up for San Francisco and the Niners beat the Rams in a shutout to start the season. The other two games coming up one of them against Atlanta a potential playoff team and no one knows how the 49ers defense is going to stop the Falcons on their high flying offense.

There’s the final game of the season on New Year’s day against the Seattle Seahawks normally I wouldn’t say the Niners could beat Seattle but the only caveat would be that game is week 17 Seattle would probably have their playoff season wrapped up and week 17 in general and you have teams that are done for the season.

David Zizmor does the San Francisco 49ers podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com