492: Seahawks Suffocate 49ers - Best Defense in NFL Heads to Bye Week

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The Seattle Seahawks have earned their bye week as the NFC's top seed, and the dominance couldn't be sweeter. Mike McDonald's squad dismantled the 49ers in a performance that left no question about who was the top team in the NFC. T Jaxon Smith-Njigba capped off a historic season with 1,793 receiving yards—outpacing the entire New York Jets receiving corps—while the offensive evolution under Klint Kubiak has transformed Seattle from an explosive passing attack into a balanced team that others will fear in the playoffs.

Charles Cross locked in a four-year, $104 million extension that looks like a very team friendly deal. The value only gets better when considering the contract takes him through age 30, giving Seattle bookend tackles with Abraham Lucas secured for the foreseeable future. Kubiak may have a future as a head coaching candidate. The Ravens job seems like a legitimate landing spot if he leaves, though there's zero interest in discussing coordinator departures while chasing a Lombardi.

The wild card weekend brings a cursed Rams team to Carolina, where Dave Canales goes full circle back to when Seattle faced the Saints. We talk about the other playoff teams in the NFC and which could be considered "fraudulent." In Do Better, PFF takes a beating for rating Sam Darnold's solid performances against Carolina and San Francisco close to the same as Bryce Young and significantly lower than Brock Purdy. Arguments with AI also fall into the Do Better bin. Better at Life honors go to JSN and the Seahawks 2025 defense.

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0:00.0	This is the Seahawkers podcast.
0:08.9	Episode 492.
0:11.2	I'm Brandon Schultz of the military Seahawkers.
0:13.2	And I am joined by my good buddy, Adam Amhert, is our Seattle Seahawks, Adam.
0:20.0	We're going into a bye week, a glorious, glorious weekend where we could just sit back and watch football.
0:26.6	I'm kind of going to miss not watching our Seahawks, but knowing they get to rest up ahead of next week's match, it's a very good feeling.
0:34.5	It's a great feeling.
0:36.1	I am excited to sit and have a stress-free weekend of playoff football as we watch our team get healthier and have extra time to prepare for their next opponent.
0:48.0	And man, it's a wonderful time to be alive as a 12.
0:50.7	And I am firing up for the upcoming playoff, Brandon.
0:54.2	This is fun.
0:55.5	If you,
0:56.0	if you don't love this,
0:57.4	then I don't even know why you pay attention to football.
1:00.5	Like,
1:00.8	just stop.
1:01.7	Well,
1:02.0	it's,
1:02.3	it's all the more sweeter too because the last time that we sat here and
1:07.8	talked about having a buy week,
1:09.6	it's when two teams had buy weeks. They hadn't
1:12.6	expanded the playoffs the last time when we were doing the show in 2013 and 2014. And, you know,
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