{"id":491255,"date":"2026-01-04T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491255\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:26:11","slug":"seahawks-clinch-nfc-west-and-no-1-seed-with-13-3-win-over-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491255\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks Clinch NFC West and No. 1 Seed With 13-3 Win Over 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif.\u2014After Sam Darnold took a knee for the third time, and Seahawks players rushed onto the field, what had been evident throughout Saturday night&#8217;s game became official.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks are the best team in the NFC.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a dominant defensive performance and a strong ground game, the Seahawks controlled the game throughout on their way to 13-3 win over the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Seahawks improve to 14-3 and are the NFC West champs, as well as the conference&#8217;s No. 1 overall seed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are six rapid reactions to Saturday night&#8217;s win:<\/p>\n<p>1. The road to the Super Bowl goes through Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>With Saturday&#8217;s win at Levi&#8217;s Stadium, the Seahawks drastically helped their chances of coming back here for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>With a 14-3 record, the best regular-season mark in team history, the Seahawks are NFC West champs and they also earned a first-round by and the conference&#8217;s No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n<p>In each of the three previous instances that the Seahawks were the top seed, 2005, 2013 and 2014, they used homefield advantage to get to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, Calif.\u2014After Sam Darnold took a knee for the third time, and Seahawks players rushed onto the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":491256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,54419,50,80677,51440,88176,54418,216084,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-491255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-homepage-hero","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-news-gameday","12":"tag-news-national-feature","13":"tag-news-rapid-reaction","14":"tag-news-stories","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks-at-san-francisco-49ers-2025-reg-18","16":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115835648785756980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}