said in the post-game conference<\/a> following the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 win over the Philadelphia Eagles that it would be \u201ccool\u201d if the NFL was \u201cunderstanding\u201d and gave them a Sunday game.<\/p>\nThey didn\u2019t, and the 3rd matchup between the Seahawks and 49ers is another Saturday game.<\/p>\n
Throwing his chips in the 49er \/ Shanahan camp, out of the deepest corner of left field came\u2026Tony Dungy?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response. Your options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better.\u201d<\/p>\n
You win the games in front of you and let the rest sort itself out, coach(es)!<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, the advantage the No. 1 seed gets isn\u2019t fair either, and neither is the fact that pass interference can\u2019t be challenged. These things exist.<\/p>\n
So on to the business at hand: Shanahan and his band of Overcomers have to come back home, prepare for a game on five-day rest that they haven\u2019t had to do since\u2026Week 17 of the 2025 regular season when they went from Monday to Sunday. The rest disadvantage is also something Shanahan has benefited from as the No. 1 seed twice before.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, it certainly was something watching nearly every potential opponent lose a starter for the rest of the season while on bye. The Seahawks will face a 49ers team without George Kittle and linebacker Tatum Bethune, both of whom suffered respective season-ending injuries over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n
At home, on rest, the real question is whether San Francisco can surpass, or even meet, their 3-point total from Week 18 against Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Divisional Round date is set, and for Mike Macdonald\u2019s Seattle Seahawks squad, it\u2019s the next game. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,88339,718,12043,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-672498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks-playoffs","14":"tag-seattle-seahawks-news","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-schedule","16":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115884530396917742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672498","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=672498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}