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Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

San Francisco 49ers - Know Your Rival 2026

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Know Your Rival season kicks off with the team the Seahawks have held without a touchdown in their last two matchups - the San Francisco 49ers. Seattle closed out the regular season with a 13-3 win at Levi's Stadium, blew the doors off them in a 41-6 divisional round rout, and then celebrated a Super Bowl in the Niners' own locker room. So what's left of San Francisco after a season like that?

We break down a defense that finished dead last in the NFL in sacks and somehow worse in interceptions, a coaching staff that just lost its DC to the Titans (and lost their OC to us), and a receiver room that has almost completely turned over. Then there's Brandon Aiyuk, whose contract standoff and new beef with Jayden Daniels might be the messiest subplot in the NFL. We also dig into the cap sheet. Brock Purdy's deal won't be ugly for a couple years, but Nick Bosa's coming off his third ACL tear and it could be his last season if things don't go well for him ahead of a potential out in his contract. While San Francisco is sitting on the league's biggest amount of cap space, it seems as though there nothing obvious to spend it on apart from future obligations coming due.

In the second half of the show, we look at where ESPN's roster power rankings actually put the Seahawks compared to the rest of the NFC contenders, announce our group tickets for the home opener banner-raising game, and hand out Do Better and Better at Life honors, including a former member of the Seahawks front office who just became the Vikings general manager.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Seahawkers podcast.

0:09.4

Episode 5001.

0:11.5

I'm Brandon Shultz of the military Seahawkers, and I'm joined by my good buddy and

0:15.7

Montana Seahawker, Adam Emmert.

0:17.9

How you doing, buddy?

0:18.9

Man, I'm doing okay.

0:22.5

A lot of good things going on in life,

0:27.2

no doubt about it. But I feel like we haven't really sat and chatted for, I don't know,

0:32.5

like a year or two. So I'm sure we got a lot to catch up on. But we did go back to 501.

0:36.9

I appreciate you doing that after we jumped numbers to do the Russell Wilson Tribute, 503. And I'm really actually fired up about what we jump numbers to do the Russell Wilson tribute 503.

0:43.3

And I'm really actually fired up about what we're going to talk about today because I really love to hate the 49ers, Brandon.

0:46.7

I do.

0:47.7

It is no your rival season.

0:50.9

We took a couple weeks off.

0:52.3

We had a nice break.

0:53.5

And now we are in the thick of the pre-season

0:57.7

as this time of year. There's only one way to do this time of year. And that's two crap all over

1:04.7

our rival opponents in the NFC West. And we're kicking things off this year with the San Francisco 49ers.

1:11.8

I'm excited.

1:12.9

I am too.

1:13.5

If you're looking for a fully objective breakdown of the Niners and they're offseason,

1:18.1

there's a lot of other channels out there.

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