What did Seahawks coach Pete Carroll have to say about Sebastian Janikowski?

"Seabass was a little late with the kick. He took a little extra time, and it threw the timing off a bit. That was the difference in how the ball flew."

Oh wait. You meant on the next play.

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As many large things as the Seahawks did right Sunday, including maybe the best one-yard touchdown run in Seattle annals (by RB Chris Carson), they still lost to a broken-down San Francisco outfit they had beaten 10 times in a row by a collective margin of 127 points, including a 27-point win two weeks earlier.

They let Charlie Brown kick the field goal.

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The renaissance of the rushing game has been the story of the Seahawks season. It took a long time and many resources to back-fill the void left by Marshawn Lynch. But here they are, needing only a win Sunday (1:05 p.m., FOX) in Santa Clara against the 49ers (3-10) to clinch a playoff spot with two weeks to spare, a development as freakish as finding a street  in downtown Seattle free of orange cones.

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With three regular-season games remaining, it's remarkable that the Seahawks have only to beat the 49ers (3-10) Sunday to clinch a playoff berth with time to spare in the regular season. After all the changes in the off-season, the Seahawks figured to be minnows spooked by even the shadows of NFC sharks.

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The previous game, the Seahawks scored a season-high 43 points. Monday night, they had three points entering in the fourth quarter. They won both games.

Beautiful or brutal, the Seahawks seem to have a knack. After an 0-4 preseason and an 0-2 start to the regular season, exactly no one expected them to have a feel for winning games sufficient to make the 2018 NFL playoffs.

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As much delight as the Seahawks drew Sunday from their 43-16 rout of the 49ers and Richard Sherman, something stood out like the first scratch on a new car -- 386 passing yards allowed to third-string QB Nick Mullens.

CB Shaquill Griffin was candid about what he thought happened.

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The Seahawks likely will be missing RG D.J. Fluker for the Monday night home game against Minnesota and maybe longer because of a pulled hamstring, but the offense will have back RB Chris Carson despite a finger injury, and the defense will regain the services of LB Mychal Kendricks.

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Earlier in the week, Richard Sherman described the Seahawks as a "middle of the road" team. Which, on the Sherman Scale of Agitation, is mild. By Sunday afternoon, his 49ers were road kill. That was not mild. It was almost pitiful.

Truth be known, as much as the 43-16 triumph (box) over 2-10 San Francisco upgraded the Seahawks' playoff bona fides, the degree of beatdown was, for most players, awkward.

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Probably the most complicated relationship over the past 25 years in Seattle sports after George Karl and Gary Payton is Pete Carroll and Richard Sherman. Both relationships were notably responsible for great team success, but the tension between coach and the genius talent eventually wore out each side.

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After the 2008 hijacking of the Sonics, the state of Oklahoma gets little slack from Seattle sports fans. But after the Seahawks' dramatic win in Charlotte Sunday over the Panthers, two obscure football sons of the Sooner State may offer cause for pause in the decade-long acrimony.

RB Chris Carson and WR David Moore made the two most startling plays in the game, which spilled nacho plates, beer and popcorn across the Northwest.

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Sign of a quality NFL team: Winning on the road late against a good team when many things are working against the game plan.

The Seahawks now can consider themselves a quality team.

Carolina had 476 yards of total offense, a season high against Seattle. QB Cam Newton and RB Christian McCaffrey seemed at times unstoppable. The Panthers defense held the NFL's top rushing team to half its average. Carolina recovered all five of its fumbles.

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A drunk pro football game broke out Monday night. Lots of outrageous moments, hilarious episodes, embarrassing acts and questionable judgments. You know, like the office Christmas party when someone spikes the punch with Fireball.

In the Los Angeles Rams' 54-51 ammo-dump explosion over the Kansas City Chiefs, team and individual marks and milestones were everywhere. The 105 combined points were the third-most in NFL history. It was first game in which both teams scored 50 points, and thus the first time a team lost scoring 50 or more. The 14 combined touchdowns tied for second-most in league annals.

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While a few others in the dwindling field of elite college football teams wobbled Saturday, Washington State wowed.

Piling up 407 yards and 55 points by halftime, the Cougars splattered Arizona 69-28 (box) Saturday night in Pullman -- Gardner Minshew had a school-record seven touchdown passes -- to set up an Apple Cup lollapalooza at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Martin (box)Stadium.

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Entering the game, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson were ranked N0. 1 and No. 2 in quarterback passer rating. Career. In NFL history.

So this is what happened Thursday night on national TV.

Wilson threw a backward pass that went forward, and a forward pass that went backward. Rodgers, on third-and-two on the Packers 33-yard line with 4:20 left that represented the final chance for Green Bay to win, chunked a pass maybe six yards into the Clink's rubberized dirt that might have been the worst pressure pass of his illustrious career.

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Here's a provocative question entering the Thursday night game at the Clink against the Green Bay Packers:

What if the Seahawks are good?

As in, nearly-run-the-table good. As in, winning six of their final seven, starting with the Packers, to finish 10-6 and qualify for the playoffs.

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One way to look at the events of Sunday afternoon in the Coliseum is that among the beleaguered people of Southern California who were able to seek a three-hour respite from despair, the Seahawks and Rams provided distraction with some splendid entertainment. The Rams won. Good for all concerned.

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When the Los Angeles Rams last were seen locally Oct. 7, Seahawks LB K.J. Wright watched from the Clink sidelines, recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. He remembered that things were bad that afternoon, but as often is the case with things like car accidents, the brain, out of self-preservation, obscures many details.

Such as 30 first downs and 468 yards of total offense.

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The Seahawks have lost games by three, seven, two and eight points, the latter two to likely playoff teams in the 6-2 Chargers and 8-1 Rams.

The outcomes have the Seahawks 4-4 at the regular season's mid-point, suggesting a team not far from consideration as playoff-worthy. But as with a PGA tournament field, there are many premier golfers who have missed the cut for want of a longer putt or shorter iron shot.

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The best sports teams are able to do over and over that which they do best. Which explains how the Seahawks are 4-4 at the seasonal midpoint. A week after they were running with BMW smoothness for a win at Detroit, they came home Sunday for the first time in a month and blew gaskets, threw rods, overheated and under-performed.

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Complimenting QB Philip Rivers on his football intelligence, LB Bobby Wagner recalled from the preseason game between the Chargers and Seahawks when Rivers called a timeout at the line of scrimmage, knowing his play call would be doomed against Seattle's defensive set. More impressively, Rivers even knew the name of the Seahawks' play.

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