{"id":3275,"date":"2026-01-18T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/good-luck-bears-or-rams-in-beating-this-seahawks-defense-the-mob-gang-continues-to-rampage-around-the-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:01:22","slug":"good-luck-bears-or-rams-in-beating-this-seahawks-defense-the-mob-gang-continues-to-rampage-around-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/good-luck-bears-or-rams-in-beating-this-seahawks-defense-the-mob-gang-continues-to-rampage-around-the-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Good luck, Bears or Rams in beating this Seahawks defense. The &#8216;MOB&#8217; gang continues to rampage around the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Seattle staked their claim to the NFL throne the same way they did during their run to the NFC&#8217;s No. 1 seed: by crushing their opponents without mercy.<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks offense had a good, or bad, game Saturday night against the San Francisco 49ers, but Seattle&#8217;s defense (and special teams!) stole the show in this 41-6 shutout. Now Seattle is one game away from returning to the Super Bowl for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Playoff quarterback DeMarcus Lawrence, who was sacked by Brock Purdy late in the second half, has not seen a touchdown in his career after spending 11 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. His prophetic words from last March about leaving Dallas for Seattle in free agency are back on social media after the Seahawks&#8217; emphatic win. And they will have staying power this coming week as the Seahawks prepare for the NFC title game. But what else stood out for Lawrence symbolizing this strong defense was the new necklace he sported after the game with the initials: MOB.<\/p>\n<p>Work on bull****.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, new MOB necklace, man,&#8221; Lawrence said. &#8220;You know, to let the world know how we&#8217;re coming, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a league where offenses and quarterbacks are the stars of the game, Seattle has built a defense as compelling as the biggest, brightest arms in the NFL and have shown they are good enough to ride to a title.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle didn&#8217;t even let the 49ers into the game, doing the same thing they did during the regular season finale in Week 18 when they shut down the 49ers&#8217; running game, which then forced Brock Purdy to drop back and throw into the teeth of an immovable defense. This weekend, the Seahawks held the 49ers to 28 yards on 11 drives in the first half, and once again forced the 49ers to play a style of football they don&#8217;t want to play.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Seahawks safety Nick Emmanwori (3) reacts after picking up a fumble during the game against the 49ers on Saturday night. (AP Photo\/Lindsey Wasson)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-credit\">    (TARGET NEWS)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Seahawks forced their second turnover of the night to open the third quarter, the offense rewarded the defense with a field goal and the 21-point deficit was too big against Seattle&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of performance that a No. 1 seed deserves. 1 have had against the weakest opponents in their conference. It&#8217;s not that the 49ers are a bad team, they&#8217;re just inexplicably injured. But this level of dominance has set the bar incredibly high for whoever wins the frozen rivalry between the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams. In a season where head coach Kyle Shanahan had all the answers as the 49ers changed and thinned out, the Seahawks were on top of everything they were trying to pull off. Not only are they talented, they are incredibly well organized as second-year head coach Mike Macdonald pulls all the strings on defense.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers didn&#8217;t even get to the red zone in this game and this was an offense that ranked in the top three in both quality and efficiency metrics in the back half of the season. It&#8217;s not like the Seahawks have been racking up their stats against the worst teams the league has to offer. This condition is acquired through experimentation. The only offense to put up more than 20 points in Seattle in the final nine weeks of the season was the Rams (the Titans scored 24 points but had a 90-yard punt return touchdown). They have given up 75 points since Week 13 with 37 of those points, which is half official, against the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Teams need to be dialed in, talented and well coached like the Rams to score against this defense. The run the Seahawks are on will go down in the record books as the most accomplished of all time if they can maintain this level of defensive dominance against one of the two best offenses in the NFL. In the case of the Rams, it&#8217;s probably the best offense of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That creates a potentially intriguing third matchup between the Seahawks and their division rival Rams, but LA still has to get there first. Caleb Williams and the Bears aren&#8217;t pushovers yet, but with Seattle putting Shanahan and the 49ers in the locker for the second time in three weeks, it&#8217;s hard not to feel like this is the current Super Bowl favorite. Seattle&#8217;s defense is really good and has one of the best special teams units in the entire league, as evidenced by Rashid Shaheed&#8217;s 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The health of the Bears or Rams will likely create a tougher test than the 49ers have been able to muster, but this defense plays as well as a possible unit in the modern NFL and the Seahawks seem to be getting better each week. Regardless of who will show up to face the Seahawks next Sunday, the only thing higher than Lumen Field will be the boom this defense brings seemingly every single game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle staked their claim to the NFL throne the same way they did during their run to the NFC&#8217;s No. 1 seed: by crushing their opponents without mercy. The Seahawks offense had a good, or bad, game Saturday night against the San Francisco 49ers, but Seattle&#8217;s defense (and special teams!) stole the show in this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}