{"id":653647,"date":"2026-01-04T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:25:20","slug":"weakened-49ers-lucky-to-not-get-blown-out-by-nfc-west-champion-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653647\/","title":{"rendered":"Weakened 49ers lucky to not get blown out by NFC West champion Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Make no mistake, this was a bona fide ass-whooping that should\u2019ve been even worse. Mike Macdonald preached having a team that plays a style nobody wants to play against. Tonight\u2019s performance by Seattle was exactly that. The defense was absolutely suffocating once again, making every yard a fight for the 49ers and punishing the ballcarriers with vicious (but clean) hits. That was paired with a rushing attack that was just as fierce, wearing down San Francisco\u2019s short-handed defense while moving the chains and burning the clock. It was a throwback style that is perfectly suited to playoff football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Your 2025 Seattle Seahawks are NFC West Champions with a franchise-record 14 wins. They\u2019ve secured the No. 1 seed and have a first-round bye for the playoffs. That means a stress-free week for Seahawks fans after this torrid finish to the season. Seasons like this don\u2019t come around very often, so enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Make no mistake, this was a bona fide ass-whooping that should\u2019ve been even worse. Mike Macdonald preached having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623,52201],"class_list":{"0":"post-653647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115837765399145139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653647","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=653647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}