After a playoff club-record 161 yards and 27 carries, RB Thomas Rawls did not need to do anything more for the Seahawks Saturday night. But after the game, he provided the clearest take on the biggest result of the 26-6 playoff win over the Detroit Lions.

"We handling our business," he said. "We on the hunt."

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Takeaway

RB Thomas Rawls tore through Detroit for 161 rushing yards and WR Paul Richardson made the catch of the year as the Seahawks wore down the Lions 26-6 in an NFC wild card game Saturday night at CenturyLink field (box). With its 10th consecutive home playoff win, Seattle advances to the divisional round of the playoffs Saturday afternoon against the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome.

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Seahawks defensive coordinator Kris Richard will interview for the coaching vacancy with the Buffalo Bills, according to a report on nfl.com. After the Seahawks play the Detroit Lions in their wild-card matchup at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Clink (NBC), Richard will meet the Bills next week, per NFL rules.

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LB Bobby Wagner and KR Tyler Lockett were the only Seahawks named to the Associated Press All-Pro teams announced Friday. Wagner, the NFL's leading tackler, made the first team while Lockett earned second-team honors. Several Seahawks -- DEs Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril, CB Richard Sherman, and safeties Kam Chancellor Earl Thomas -- all missed the second team by either one or two votes.

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Which is worse: not making the NFL playoffs, or making the playoffs and losing right away? Consider the plights of the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions. The Bills haven’t seen the postseason since 1999, the longest current drought in the four major professional sports. Even the Mariners, who haven’t appeared in a playoff game since 2001, put the Bills to shame – sort of.

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Then there was the time Bernie Little, owner of the Miss Budweiser champion boat as well as virtually the entire hydroplane circuit, came up to me and said, "If I could get my leg up that high, I'd kick you in the nuts."

Good to see you too, Bernie.

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The Seahawks have the most fortunate draw in wild-card weekend with a home playoff contest against the 9-7 Detroit Lions, who have lost three in a row and have no players selected for the Pro Bowl. A win would send Seattle to Atlanta, where they would have a better chance indoors in the Georgia Dome against the Falcons than drawing any among the Giants, Packers and Cowboys.

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Amid fervent hand-wringing among fans about the Seahawks' ability to persevere in the playoffs, we pause to offer a reflection on a feat. No trophy or other award accompanies it. But given the discord, tumult and mayhem that are part of this week for the 20 clubs that failed to make the postseason, we offer this:

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One of the first questions put to Pete Carroll at his postgame press gaggle Sunday had to do with his preference for a first-round playoff opponent. Carroll naturally didn’t want to go there, opting instead to dwell on the “improvement” he saw in his team in its 25-23 victory over the hapless San Francisco 49ers.

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Anxiety among fans as the Seahawks enter the sixth playoff season in seven years under coach Pete Carroll is palpable, and understandable. Two years ago, the Seahawks were No. 1 in rushing yardage in the NFL. This year, they are 25th. On defense, they don't have key man FS Earl Thomas.

Carroll, naturally, does not think the flaws are seasonally fatal.

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A 25-23 winner Sunday afternoon over the 2-14 San Francisco 49ers, the No. 3-seeded Seahawks play the No. 6-seeded Detroit Lions at 5:15 p.m. Saturday (NBC) at CenturyLink Field in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs. The matchup was determined Sunday night when the Lions lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-24 at Ford Field in Detroit.

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Fights. Ejections. A general manager and a coach fired around the game. Russell Wilson pulled with the game still in the balance. A long snapper injured, fercripesakes.

After a wild Sunday that saw the once formidable San Francisco franchise collapse in heaps around them, the Seahawks surveyed their own damage. While much lighter than the rivals, they must conclude that after mini-camp, OTAs, training camp, four exhibitions and 16 regular-season games, they still have no decent running game for the postseason.

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Takeaway

The Seahawks narrowly defeated the NFL's second-worst team, the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA., and the unimpressive manner in which they won, 25-23, suggests that the No. 3-seeded Seahawks could be vulnerable to an upset (box).

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Michael Bennett recalled this week a moment four years ago when he and fellow defensive end Cliff Avril, then only lightly acquainted as new Seahawks teammates, engaged in a sideline argument during a game that was caught by TV cameras. Bennett couldn't recall what it was about.

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While fans look in back seats, under beds and down sweaters for the Seahawks' fleeting mojo, consider the San Francisco 49ers, at 2-13 the sick man of the NFC West that is days from another purge -- or not, and no one can say for sure which is the better plan of action.

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Kumbaya, said CB Richard Sherman. That was what the unplanned Seahawks team meeting last week was about in the wake of his sideline shouting match with coaches during the Dec. 15 Rams game, and a subsequent dust-up with a media questioner.

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After Tyler Lockett was placed on injured reserve Tuesday followng surgery Saturday on his season-ending broken leg, another player who knows something about health setbacks, Kasen Williams, was promoted by the Seahawks to take Lockett's place among the wide receivers Sunday for the regular-season finale in San Francisco.

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The Seahawks had an unplanned team meeting Wednesday that dealt in part with CB Richard Sherman's criticism of play-calling in the Dec. 15 game against the Rams, coach Pete Carroll disclosed Monday. He didn't say what was said, but did say the rare confab also included a message about helping younger players prepare for the playoffs.

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Tyler Lockett had what coach Pete Carroll called a "great" surgery to repair the fibula and tibia broken above the ankle in his right leg during the second quarter of the Seahawks' 34-31 loss to Arizona Saturday.

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Much of the post-game talk at CenturyLink Field Saturday focused on the Seahawks’ offensive revival in the second half. Trailing 14-3 after producing two of the more horrid quarters in franchise history (five sacks allowed, 0-for-7 from goal-to-go, etc.) Seattle rallied for 28 points, 21 in the fourth quarter, only to lose on a Chandler Catanzaro field goal as time expired.

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