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The NFC West has had one team consistently contending, meanwhile all three of the other teams have to been to the NFC Championship Game in the past decade as well.

The San Francisco 49ers are back after five consecutive seasons at or below .500.

It was not overnight and there were four head coaches in that timeframe, the end of the Harbaugh era, a year of Jim Tomsula and Brian Kelly, with Kyle Shanahan the last three...

Continue Reading Five years later, the San Francisco 49ers are back in the big time