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Seahawks All-22 review: How Seattle’s rookies were key to win over 49ers

The Seattle Seahawks rookies combined for 137 snaps in Week 18 against the San Francisco 49ers. Once again, only Grey Zabel and Nick Emmanwori played meaningful snaps. Robbie Ouzts logged his third-highest snap count of the season, while Rylie Mills and undrafted rookie Amari Kight combined for just five snaps. Let’s dive into the tape […]

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Looking back on Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s phenomenal, historic regular season

Having secured the NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed, the Seattle Seahawks are in the NFC Divisional Round for the first time since 2019. The Seahawks are in the midst of one of the best seasons in franchise history, surpassing 13 wins for the first time ever. These achievements would not have been possible without the […]

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Pre-Snap Reads 1/7: Seahawks D has room to improve

In Today’s Links: how and why our Seattle Seahawks are the NFC’s number 1 seed, more on the Charles Cross extension, Klink Kubiak continues to draw interest from several teams (as does Aden Durde), stats supporting our squad’s elite-level defense, All-22 breakdown of the big win over the 49ers, the Sea Hawkers boys on the […]

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Browns request to interview the other Seahawks coordinator for head coaching vacancy

With the NFL Head Coaching Carousel in motion, the Seattle Seahawks’ coordinators are very popular. This popularity started with Klink Kubiak getting plenty of interest from around the league. However that popularity is seeping over to the defensive side as well with Defensive Coordinator, Aden Durde. NFL reporter, Ian Rapoport announced that the Cleveland Browns […]

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Snap Reactions: Seahawks defense plays fewest snaps in 35 years

After years of mostly non-competitive losing performances, the Seattle Seahawks turned the tables on the San Francisco 49ers and handed them a humbling loss with the NFC West title on the line. Seattle’s 13-3 win was a kind scoreline given the statistical dominance, but it’s still a win that gave the Seahawks the division title […]

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Pre-Snap Reads 1/6: Zach Charbonnet exemplifies efficiency for Seahawks

In Today’s Links: more on the Charles Cross extension, how our Seattle Seahawks made the right move in letting Pete Carroll go, what our squad need to work on during their bye week, more recaps and analysis of last Saturday’s gargantuan victory over the San Francisco 49ers, Klint Kubiak getting some buzz for at least […]

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How the Seahawks finished with the best regular season of all 14 playoff teams

That’s a wrap on the regular season. The NFL Playoffs are set, a bunch of Wild Card teams are better than two division winners, and Aaron Rodgers has bamboozled Baltimore once again. I knew from a few weeks back the Seattle Seahawks had done something impressive in terms of beating current playoff-caliber teams. That curiosity […]

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Enemy Reaction 2025: San Francisco 49ers

Oh how sweet it is to win a division title and the number one seed. It’s even sweeter when it happens on the road against a team that’s had the upper hands for years. The Seattle Seahawks are NFC West champions and the top team in the conference after what had to be the most […]

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Why Mike Macdonald is the obvious choice for NFL Coach of the Year

On Saturday night, two candidates for the NFL’s Coach of the Year award entered Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with the NFC’s No. 1 seed on the line. The San Francisco 49ers headman, Kyle Shanahan, stood on one sideline after somehow propelling an injury-riddled 49ers team to a 12-4 season. On the other was […]

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Pete Carroll out as Las Vegas Raiders coach after 3-win disaster

In very unsurprising news, Pete Carroll’s Las Vegas Raiders head coaching days are over. The former Seattle Seahawks head coach has been “relieved of his duties” following a brutal 3-14 campaign, the second-worst season by win percentage since the Raiders joined the NFL from the AFL. On the plus side, the Raiders have the No. […]

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Four Down Territory: How the (NFC) West was won

It was the biggest regular season game in franchise history, and the Seattle Seahawks delivered one of the most impressive defensive statements in franchise history. It was all Seahawks in a 13-3 pummeling that doesn’t accurately show how much Seattle dominated the San Francisco 49ers. After beating big brother number one in the Los Angeles […]

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Pre-Snap Reads 1/5: Seahawks head into earned bye as best team in the NFL

In Today’s Links: Coach Macdonald and the teams that scorned him, numbers and notes from the big Seattle Seahawks victory Saturday night over the San Francisco 49ers, Charles Cross signs an extension, statistics from our squad’s tremendous 2025 season, thoughts and analysis pertaining to the ‘Hawks run game, why our team is now the favorite […]

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Seahawks give Charles Cross a big contract extension

A day after the Seattle Seahawks secured the NFC’s 1-seed in the playoffs, they lock up their most consistent and battle-tested offensive lineman. The Hawks and star LT, Charles Cross have agreed to a multi-year deal that will keep him in the Pacific Northwest through the 2030 season. Cross was drafted 9th overall in the […]

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Seattle Seahawks win NFL scoring defense title

The NFC West wasn’t the only title the Seattle Seahawks locked up this weekend. For the first time in a decade, the Seahawks have won the scoring defense title. That was during a period in which Seattle led the league in fewest points allowed from 2012 through 2015. Heading into the weekend, Seattle and the […]

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Seahawks fan discussion: NFL Week 18 Sunday games

Rest easy, Seattle Seahawks fans! The first-round bye is secured after the Seahawks won the NFC West over the San Francisco 49ers, so the final Sunday of the 2025 regular season can be watched in peace. There are still some games to pay attention to for the Seahawks and Seahawks fans, whether for this year […]

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Words of Prey, Seahawks-49ers: 1t 1s accompl1shed

The Seattle Seahawks’ season is not over. Yet it is already a success. Seattle hired Mike Macdonald to re-establish the franchise back on its rightful perch atop the NFC West, by way of a full defensive makeover. His job was clear: tame the offenses of football’s two pre-eminent masterminds, out-genius the other two geniuses in […]

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Ted’s Talk: Weakened 49ers lucky to not get blown out by Seahawks

Earlier this week I wrote a pregame article about the Seahawks season coming full circle in this Week 18 game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. That couldn’t have been more true with how this contest turned out, a thoroughly dominant 13-3 road victory riddled with missed opportunities that would’ve saved all Seahawks […]

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