The Seattle Seahawks will be hosting the NFC Championship Game next Sunday after soundly defeating the San Francisco 49ers. As for who they’ll face next? We’ve still yet to figure that one out.

It’ll be a bitterly cold and snowy and blustery day in Chicago when the Bears take on the Los Angeles Rams. On paper, the Rams should win, but they narrowly escaped the Carolina Panthers a week ago. The Chicago Bears have been an inspiring story filled with improbable comeback wins under rookie head coach Ben Johnson and second-year quarterback Caleb Williams.

Seattle has faced the Rams twice...

Thirteen seconds to victory.

The Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers played out the remaining 59:47, out of sportsmanship, and also because Fox had sold a boatload of ads. But the Niners would never reach seven points and the Seahawks would never look back. The objects in the rear view mirror would only get smaller and smaller. One of the league’s great rivalries would tip in one direction for the foreseeable future.

Seattle 41, San Francisco 6 was an ass-kicking, and that’s being polite. For once, a game was exactly as close as the score indicated. There was a punishing...

Lost in the shuffle of the weekend, sandwiched in between a Sam Darnold oblique injury and a 41-6 desecration of the Bay Area, a head coaching hire took place. One with at least some potential implications to the Seattle Seahawks.

The Atlanta Falcons hired Kevin Stefanski, becoming the second franchise to fill their vacancy and raising significant questions about Klint Kubiak.

The most experienced coaches available this cycle (outside Mike Tomlin) have now been recruited. It hits Seattle in a particular way because of all the interviews and availabilities, Kubiak had most strongly been rumored and connected to Atlanta.

Regrettably,...

The Seattle Seahawks are one win away from the Super Bowl. I repeat, the Seattle Seahawks are one win away from the Super Bowl. On Saturday night, the Seahawks took a banged up 49ers squad to the wood shed, putting an epic 41-6 beat down double tap on the “faithful.” It was a special night in Seattle, as there were heroes all over the field, while San Francisco has to go back to the drawing board.

Saturday was confirmation that San Francisco is not even in the same class as the Seahawks. As the 49ers go to Cancun, the city...

Was it all a dream? When we used to fret about the intent of our favorite team? The days and hours spent listening to podcast after podcast, reading article after article, fretting over a San Francisco crew that has demonstrated clear talent and sass this season? The years of half-hearted finishes to languid seasons by our Seattle Seahawks, rolling into sporadic playoff appearances with a self-conscious and careful approach that led to unsatisfying losses? In an instant, Rashid Shaheed broke apart the rickety shackles of a decade of mid-ness by electrifying a rabid Seattle crowd, returning the much anticipated opening...

The Seattle Seahawks flattened the San Francisco 49ers in a 41-6 blowout to advance to the NFC Championship Game, but they didn’t come out of this one unscathed.

Running back Zach Charbonnet left the game in the second quarter after he was tackled short of the marker on 3rd and 2. Charbonnet was slow to get up before walking to the sideline with a left knee injury. In the second half, left tackle Charles Cross, who just came back from a hamstring injury, didn’t return after hurting his foot.

Mike Macdonald’s post-game injury update sounded positive on Charbonnet at the...

Well that was easy, wasn’t it?

The Seattle Seahawks destroyed the San Francisco 49ers from the opening kickoff until the final whistle. A 41-6 thumping unlike anything Kyle Shanahan has ever experienced in nine seasons as 49ers head coach. Seattle hadn’t won a playoff game since the 2019 season, hadn’t won a home playoff game since the 2016 season, hadn’t beaten the 49ers at home since 2021, and ended all of those droughts in the most beautiful way possible.

It’s time for Winners and Losers!

Seattle Seahawks Winners

Kenneth Walker III has the greatest night of his career...

That was supremely satisfying. Mike Macdonald loves his rallying cries, whether it’s “12 as one”, “Chasing Edges,” or “E.A.T.”. I’ve got another one for the Seattle Seahawks after that 41-6 dismantling of the San Francisco 49ers in the Division Round – Professional Destruction.

Those two words embody Macdonald’s vision for the team and perfectly encapsulate the way Seattle has been playing for the last two months. ‘The Dark Side” defense has been utterly suffocating opposing offenses while the running game has been on a roll. For weeks I’ve been trying to find different ways to describe the dominance the Seahawks...

As sweet as that 41-6 thrashing of the San Francisco 49ers by the Seattle Seahawks felt, there was some significant history made in the game. The 35-point Seahawks win was their largest margin of victory in the playoffs, tied with their Super Bowl 48 win over the Denver Broncos (43-8). Seattle also handed 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan the heaviest loss of his career. Shanahan’s previous worst defeat was 40-10 to the Dallas Cowboys in 2017, his first year as head coach and with C.J. Beathard at quarterback.

In Seattle’s last game against the 49ers, the Seahawks handed Shanahan [his...

The Seattle Seahawks received the opening kickoff and proceeded to whoop the San Francisco 49ers straight out of the 2026 NFL Playoffs.

Rashid Shaheed’s 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown set the tone for an “all three phases” masterclass by the Seahawks in front of a raucous Lumen Field crowd. By the end of the first quarter it was 17-0 Seahawks. At halftime it was 24-6, later increased to 34-6 by the end of the third quarter. The final score was 41-6, marking the largest playoff win in Seahawks history (tied with their Super Bowl 48 triumph over the Denver...

The Seattle Seahawks dominated the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Round, moving to the NFC Championship Game. They will host the winner of the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams next Sunday.

Updated 2026 NFC Playoff bracket

The Seahawks took care of business, and they await the winner of the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams.

Wild Card Round results 2026

Jan. 10, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET
Rams 34, Panthers 31

Jan. 10, 2026, 8 p.m. ET
Bears 31, Packer 27

Jan. 11, 2026, 1 p.m. ET
Bills 27, Jaguars 24

**Jan. 11, 2026, 4:30 p.m....

The Seattle Seahawks’ running back room suffered a major blow halfway through the NFC Divisional round game against the San Francisco 49ers.

Carrying a toss to the left, Zach Charbonnett went down awkwardly and quickly headed to the medical tent. Charbonnett is now questionable to return with a knee injury and headed to the locker room prior to halftime.

Charbonnett has been a crucial piece to Seattle’s running game, totaling 20 yards on five touches so far in the third 49ers game. Velus Jones Jr., who was elevated from the practice squad earlier today, is the only remaining active running...