There was very little - if anything at all - that Seattle did wrong. Buoyed by a raucous home crowd that seemed to be louder than ever before, the Seahawks dominated every phase of the football game. Their defense held the 49ers to less than a touchdown for most of the game, their offense made a pretty good San Francisco defense look horrible and even the special teams unit contributed to what was a rout.
Now, we now that Seattle are for real. They showed it to all of the world in a big-time Sunday night game with the division on the line. They'll be an NFC Wild Card entry into the playoffs (NFC West division champions), but no one with half a clue of what's happening in the National Football League at the moment wants to play them. Not with how Pete Carroll's squad is rolling. Playing them at home would be even worse.
As for San Francisco, perhaps it just wasn't their day. They're not a bad football team. They had some things go against them and occasionally, as the Houston Texans seem to be finding out, you just run into a buzz saw. I wonder if the loss today will reignite the quarterback debate in the Bay Area? I mean, there's nothing like a bad loss - especially one on national TV - to get people talking. Though, I don't think you can blame it all on Kaepernick. As far as a lackluster game goes, he had plenty of company tonight.
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