{"id":650326,"date":"2026-01-03T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:29:25","slug":"seahawks-jarran-reed-let-our-pads-do-the-talking-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/650326\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks\u2019 Jarran Reed: \u2018Let our pads do the talking Saturday night\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Jarran Reed<\/a> has been here before \u2013 and not just because he\u2019s played 15 NFL games against the San Francisco 49ers. But exactly here: Facing the 49ers on the last weekend of the regular season for the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs.<\/p>\n

San Francisco and Seattle will square off for that prize at 7 p.m. CST Saturday at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. ABC and ESPN will televise the game.<\/p>\n

The winner of the game gets a first-round bye and homefield advantage for the NFC playoffs. The loser will play a first-round road game as a wild-card qualifier.<\/p>\n

Those also were the stakes on Dec. 29, 2019. In the final game on the NFL\u2019s regular-season schedule that year, San Francisco linebacker Dre Greenlaw stopped Seattle tight end Jacob Hollister just short of the goal line on a fourth-and-goal completion from the 49ers 5-yard line with nine seconds to play. San Francisco defeated Seattle 26-21 and set up its path to Super Bowl LIV.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat game right there definitely left a sour taste in my mouth,\u201d said Reed<\/a>, who made five tackles in the game. \u201cI think that\u2019s when Jacob Hollister got stopped at the 1-yard line, and the linebacker was what? Dre Greenlaw. See, I remember that play like it was back yesterday. You don\u2019t forget those type of games, man. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, look, it\u2019s a big moment. We\u2019re not going to shy away from that. But all we can do, like I just said, it\u2019s down to it. Everything\u2019s on the line right now, and we know that. But like I just said before, we\u2019re not making it bigger than any other game that we have because overall we\u2019re just going to be right here. We want to be one-and-O and be where our feet are at.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2019, San Francisco had the NFC\u2019s highest-scoring team. This season, the 49ers rank eighth in the NFL in points, but San Francisco has put up 127 points in its past three games, with quarterback Brock Purdy throwing 11 touchdown passes.<\/p>\n

This time around, Seattle faces the 49ers as the toughest team in the NFC to score against. The Seahawks have yielded 289 points this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know they\u2019re a good offense, and we\u2019re a good defense,\u201d Reed said<\/a>. \u201cSaturday is going to speak for itself. I\u2019m not going to lip box y\u2019all to death about what we\u2019re going to do or not. I just want to get out there personally myself, just get out there and play Saturday. You know, let us go. Let our defense roll and let our pads do the talking Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

After joining the Seahawks from Alabama <\/a>as a second-round selection in the 2016 NFL Draft, Reed played in nine postseason contests in his first six years in the league. He\u2019s going back to the playoffs this season after a three-year drought.<\/p>\n

But first, Reed has unfinished business with the 49ers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in this division so long, it\u2019s been a rivalry for me personally,\u201d Reed said<\/a>. \u201cBut typically we try not to make any game bigger than the other. We try to be one-and-O every week. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we know what\u2019s at stake, and we know who we\u2019re playing, right? So we\u2019re not shying away from that. We know what we got to go out there and do Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Jarran Reed has been here before \u2013 and not just because he\u2019s played 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[94547,7,6,31185,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-650326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-_atlvssea_120725_dk-112","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nflraw25","12":"tag-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks","15":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115830467126667551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}