{"id":685932,"date":"2026-01-18T06:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685932\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:59:12","slug":"the-seattle-seahawks-are-a-runaway-freight-train-and-the-49ers-found-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685932\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks are a runaway freight train, and the 49ers found out"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was supremely satisfying. Mike Macdonald loves his rallying cries, whether it\u2019s \u201c12 as one\u201d, \u201cChasing Edges,\u201d or \u201cE.A.T.\u201d. I\u2019ve got another one for the Seattle Seahawks after that 41-6 dismantling<\/a> of the San Francisco 49ers in the Division Round – Professional Destruction.<\/p>\n

Those two words embody Macdonald\u2019s vision for the team and perfectly encapsulate the way Seattle has been playing for the last two months. \u2018The Dark Side\u201d defense has been utterly suffocating opposing offenses while the running game has been on a roll. For weeks I\u2019ve been trying to find different ways to describe the dominance the Seahawks have been showcasing, particularly on the defensive side. The way Ken Walker is running behind this nasty offensive line, the offense also fully deserves the Professional Destruction moniker.<\/p>\n

The offensive line was giving him good creases and Walker was hitting the hole with burst. He also had some fantastic cutbacks and broke tackles on the way. Maybe the most emblematic run of how the Seahawks are playing right now was the one in the fourth quarter where he ran into a crowd and got pushed about five yards farther when the rest of the team got in on the action. The Seahawks are physically imposing their will on the opponents. I would take his stat line of 19 carries for 116 yards and 3 TDs any day.<\/p>\n

Seattle will host the NFC Championship game for the first time in over a decade and got damn does it feel good! Whether it\u2019s the third matchup with the Los Angeles Rams or a showdown with the No. 2 seed Chicago Bears, it\u2019s sure to be a wild atmosphere. Until then, enjoy this one folks. This is a special, special team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That was supremely satisfying. Mike Macdonald loves his rallying cries, whether it\u2019s \u201c12 as one\u201d, \u201cChasing Edges,\u201d or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,52201,88339],"class_list":{"0":"post-685932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks-analysis-and-opinion","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115914811941864586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685932","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=685932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}