Seahawks vs 49ers: 5 takeaways from an unconvincing win

If the Niners could’ve gotten the ball back, all they would’ve needed was a field goal to take the lead and possibly hand the Seahawks a loss that could’ve knocked them down to the No. 4 seed.

With the Seahawks, he has solidified his reputation as one of the game’s best teachers, and according to Pelissero has backers around the league who would like to see him get a second chance.

The 2016 regular season had both reward and regret.

Where Kaepernick continues to lack is in the touchdown column. Kaepernick (five carries, 16 yards) fumbled on a zone-read play with Draughn on the second snap. In the first half today Kaepernick went 12-for-15 with 156 yards. The Seahawks had allowed the 49ers to score touchdowns on drives of 75 and 79 yards. They pulled within 14-13 at 6:55 when Luke Willson caught an 11-yard pass from Wilson for his seventh career touchdown catch in Santa Clara.

Chip Kelly overcame the awkwardness in coaching his farewell game after reports surfaced Saturday night about his impending firing.

Rawls ran it in from the 1 to put Seattle up for the first time, 19-14. Draughn supplied 109 of San Francisco’s 253 yards of offense.

The Lions will play their biggest game ever at Ford Field tonight against the Packers.

An obvious plan was to establish the run, since it was such an area of obvious vulnerability for the San Francisco 49ers. Seattle (10-5-1) blew that No. 2 seed and first-round bye when it lost at home last weekend to Arizona.

The Seahawks did have two particularly concerning problems in their kicking game, though.

If fact, at the end of the first quarter, the Seahawks had a grand total of 10 offensive yards.

Seattle continued to attack San Francisco’s secondary with downfield strikes. The offense fell apart in the third quarter, then showed some life in the fourth quarter, which has become par for the course.

Jimmy Graham set up the go-ahead TD with a basketball-like blockout of his defender. Thomas Rawls scored on a 1-yard run on the very next play. Boykin went from looking terrible to sealing the No. 3 seed in the NFC playoffs for Seattle with a brilliant drive late. They did not relinquish their lead the rest of the way.

Carroll cited an good pass-protection block Collins made that helped save quarterback Russell Wilson.

But Seattle had playoff-seeding implications on the line. Fortunately for the Seahawks, the kid rose up and hit four of six passes to pick up three first downs over 53 yards and avert a San Francisco possession with a shot at a game-winning field goal.

– With the Cleveland Browns losing in overtime to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the 49ers will make the second overall selection in the 2017 NFL Draft.

Cable was 17-27 in his tenure with the Raiders, including an 8-8 season in 2009 that represented the team’s best finish in eight years.