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The Seattle Seahawks locked down nan apical seed successful nan NFC playoffs and a beardown way to nan Super Bowl connected Saturday nighttime pinch a play finale triumph complete nan San Francisco 49ers.
Seattle besides vanished pinch their champion regular play grounds successful franchise history, clinching 14 wins for nan first clip ever.
The Seahawks held connected to a 10-point triumph contempt outgaining nan 49ers 363 yards to 173, and moving 64 plays to San Francisco's 42.
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba #11 of nan Seattle Seahawks fails to drawback nan shot against Ji'Ayir Brown #27 of nan San Francisco 49ers during an NFL crippled connected Jan. 3, 2026 astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California. (Matthew Huang/Icon Sportswire)
Seattle missed a section extremity successful nan 4th fourth and turned nan shot complete connected downs successful nan first 4th to discarded 2 reddish area drives, but dominated connected defense to forestall those missed opportunities from coming backmost to haunt them.
The 49ers wasted their champion thrust of nan nighttime arsenic good erstwhile backmost Brock Purdy was intercepted astatine Seattle's three-yard statement successful nan 4th fourth facing a 10-point deficit, which seemingly secured nan crippled for nan Seahawks.
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Seahawks backmost Sam Darnold, successful his first play connected nan team, completed 20 passes connected 26 attempts for 198 yards and helped group up nan only touchdown of nan full crippled successful nan first quarter.
Darnold redeemed a disappointing Week-18 crippled for nan Minnesota Vikings past play erstwhile he completed conscionable 18 of 41 passes for 166 yards successful a conflict for nan apical seed against nan Detroit Lions.
Darnold said "Learning from mistakes, and staying calm from nan pocket," made nan quality successful his capacity Saturday compared to a twelvemonth ago, successful a postgame question and reply pinch ESPN.
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba #11 of nan Seattle Seahawks carries nan shot against nan San Francisco 49ers during nan 2nd 4th of a crippled astatine Levi's Stadium connected January 03, 2026 successful Santa Clara, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, 49ers backmost Brock Purdy had conscionable 127 yards pinch nan precocious interception, and took a large deed connected his last walk of nan night, past took a while to get backmost up. He was yet capable to locomotion disconnected nan field, and Seattle ran nan timepiece out.
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