Seattle Seahawks, NFL and San Francisco 49ers
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The 49ers, the No. 6 seed in the NFC, won 23-19 at Philadelphia on Sunday in the wild card round to advance, and as the lowest seed to move on to the divisional round, they'll head to Seattle. Had the Eagles won, the Seahawks would have hosted the fifth-seeded Rams, but instead the Rams will head to Chicago to face the Bears, the NFC's No. 2 seed.
The AFC West-winning Denver Broncos have the fifth-best odds to win the Super Bowl despite being the top overall seed in the AFC. They, like the Seahawks, had a bye in the first round. Here are the Super Bowl odds and conference championship odds for every team still in the hunt.
The Seahawks are 12-4 all-time in home playoff games, winning 10 of their last 11. They’re 3-0 in divisional round home games but only one, against Carolina in 2014, was a breeze. They had to claw and scratch in their other divisional round games, beating the Saints 23-15 in 2013 and Washington 20-10 in 2005.
The Seattle Seahawks will host the Divisional Round game, presented by T-Mobile on Saturday, Jan. 17. At 5:00 p.m. PT and leading up to the game, the week will be filled with events, and game day will feature special performances,
Opponents, of course, eventually wised up to this around midseason, sometime around the Seahawks acquisition of Rashid Shaheed at the trade deadline and sometime around when former Seahawks tight end Greg Olsen was busy rambling on about how easily Kubiak was tricking defensive coordinators into the personnel groupings he wanted to face.
The NFL wild-card round certainly lived up to its name. The Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks -- the top seeds in the AFC and the NFC, respectively -- will get in on the action this coming weekend in the divisional round after earning first-round byes.
When Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald talks about "chasing edges" he's describing the pursuit of trying to cover every possible detail that could infl
That’s who we wanted.” The No. 1 seed was on the line when the Seahawks beat the 49ers in the regular-season finale, and the stakes will be even higher in Round 3. Whoever wins Saturday advances to the NFC championship game.