In their best defensive performance since Super Bowl XLVIII, with 20 players making tackles, the Seahawks suffocated coach Chip Kelly's up-tempo Philadelphia Eagles at Franklin Financial Field Sunday. The 24-14 victory was considerably more lopsided than the score. Winning its third in a row, Seattle improved to 9-4 and remains a game behind Arizona in the NFC West after the Cardinals (10-3) edged Kansas City Sunday.

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Michael Robinson has a future as a broadcaster, but he's not going to make it to 60 Minutes anytime soon. The former Seahawks fullback's interview with Marshawn Lynch, broadcast on the NFL Network house organ Sunday morning, offered little that followers of the rarely forthcoming Seahawks star didn't know.

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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is all about fraternity and brotherhood among his current and former players and coaches. But he's more about competing. Beware, Mark Sanchez.

"I think the world of him and I’m really excited for his opportunities," Carroll said Friday of the Eagles' starting quarterback and his former QB at USC, who is waiting in Philadelphia for Sunday's game. "We like to bang around a little bit if we get a chance. There’s nothing I like more than playing against people that I really care for.

"I look forward to this."

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Since the 8-4 Seahawks are playing at 9-3 Philadelphia Sunday, this question arose: When was the last time that the Seahawks, playing in Week 14 or later, won a regular-season game in the Eastern time zone against an opponent with a winning record? Answer: 11 years, 11 months and 20 days ago, and the Seahawks required overtime to get the job done.

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One of the hooks upon which Pete Carroll's detractors like to hang some contempt was his 2009 public disagreement about whether his quarterback, Mark Sanchez, should turn pro after his junior season at USC. Since Sanchez is quarterbacking the 9-3 Philadelphia Eagles, who host the Seahawks Sunday, the matter has come up for review.

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As one might imagine, the 7-5 49ers, producers of zero touchdowns and 164 yards of offense at home against the Seahawks Thanksgiving night in front of God, country and all the ships at sea, were Monday mostly splutter, loose ends, lamentations and false bravado.

Coach Jim Harbaugh, rarely a master of elocution, was evasive about his boss, owner Jed York, who tweeted an apology to fans, writing post-game that the 19-3 loss was "unacceptable."

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More speculation on the endless mystery of Marshawn Lynch: NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, via anonymous sources, wrote Sunday that the Seahawks' star may retire after the 2014 season, at least partly due to health. That would mean walking away from a $5 million base salary due him in 2015, but his increasingly public efforts to play through pain suggest that it is a plausible reason.

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Via amusing rants, TV commercials, mock press conferences and loquacious boasting, Richard Sherman makes such a spectacle of himself that his turbo tongue – colleague Art Thiel once predicted that he’s slated to die in mid-sentence – often trumps his athleticism. Such was the case Thursday night when his preening got him more face time from the NBC cameras than his two interceptions, both of which factored heavily in the Seahawks’ 19-3 victory over San Francisco.

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It wasn't embarrassing enough Thursday night to have many in the Levi's Stadium crowd walk out at halftime. Nor was it sufficiently comedic to have the 49ers finish with 164 yards of total offense on Thanksgiving night national TV. So owner Jed York completed the hat trick of haplessness when he tweeted out post-game an apology to fans for the 19-3 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

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If San Franciscans voted on it now, Richard Sherman might be elected the most hated opponent -- in any sport -- in Bay Area history. As an encore to his entertaining (for Seattle fans) rant against Michael Crabtree following January's NFC Championship, Sherman rubbed a veritable salt lick in the 49ers' wounds Thursday night with two huge interceptions in Seattle's 19-3 victory at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.

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After Marshawn Lynch went passive-aggressive, Pete Carroll went active-aggressive, then Doug Baldwin and Richard Sherman went Beavis and Butthead in attacks directed against the mother ship, the NFL. All in a short week of preparation for the game against the villainous arch-enemy that must be rooted out of its new, alien home bunker.

Question for the Seahawks: How do you find time to alienate the known football world and still work up a mad-on for the 49ers?

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Marshawn Lynch “had a really good week” of practice, coach Pete Carroll said Wednesday, indicating that the star running back has bounced back in a short week and will play Thursday in the NFL's marquee Thanksgiving game at 5:30 p.m in Santa Clara with the 49ers.

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RENTON -- Instead of thr standard weekly question-and-answer session with local reporters, Seahawks CB Richard Sherman stood next to the podium in the Virginia Mason Athletic Center auditorium Tuesday and staged a skit with teammate WR Doug Baldwin to protest the NFL's $100,000 fine on RB Marshawn Lynch for not speaking to the media.

Since every skit needs at least one prop, they used a cardboard cutout of Baldwin, while the opinionated wide receiver knelt behind it and provided the voice-over.

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The most recent game the Seahawks beat the 49ers on the road: Oct. 26, 2008.

That afternoon at Candlestick Park, Seattle FB Leonard Weaver caught two touchdown passes from QB Seneca Wallace and San Francisco TE Vernon Davis was benched by then-interim coach Mike Singletary. Making his debut, Singletary infamously pulled down his pants during a halftime speech, then went on a post-game rant that became the stuff of YouTube legend. 

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After a string of sub-par passing performances dating to Week 8, Russell Wilson went 17-for-22 for 211 yards (121.6 rating), and added 73 yards rushing in the Seahawks’ 19-3 victory over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday. Wilson played his best on Seattle’s lone touchdown drive when he completed all six of his passes and made two remarkable plays.

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After a 19-3 win Sunday over the Arizona Cardinals, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll walked about the CenturyLink Field home locker room offering words of encouragement to anyone who would listen.

When he saw a small militia of reporters gathered around running back Marshawn Lynch's locker, he couldn't hold back.

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Battered by injury, controversy and every foe's best shot, the Seahawks talked quietly about building toward something better. They didn't want to describe it as a replication of last season, because that's a dead team's ambition.

Three wins over lesser foes showed flashes of the idea, and they played the past Sunday a good Chiefs team to a standstill in Kansas City, yet lost.

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All but doomed with a loss, the Seahawks responded Sunday with their best performance since beating Denver in Week 3, a 19-3 victory over the division-leading Arizona Cardinals at CenturyLink Field that keeps them relevant in the NFC West. Russell Wilson produced another batch of improbably clutch plays and Seattle's defense dominated -- finally -- in the manner of a year ago.

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The 12s have become so fixated on Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers as their principal antagonists in the NFC West that the Arizona Cardinals have been able to sidle into the division's elite team largely under the radar. Or, as Brian Billick observed on the NFL Network three weeks ago, “It’s hard to pay attention to a team that’s located way down there in the corner.” Time to pay attention.

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