Can Niners can Russell Wilson’s Seattle reign with a week 13 win

The 49ers have an incredible opportunity ahead of them this weekend in Seattle.

I’m not talking about the potential to move to a 7-5 record, which would almost guarantee a place in the playoffs for the Niners.

No matter how cool it would be for San Francisco, there’s plenty of time left in the season to complete that goal.

In the meantime, something bigger is at stake:

They can put an effort into the heart of their arch-rival.

If San Francisco wins Sunday in Seattle, they will put the Seahawks in a tail that could take years to regret.

How often can you not only defeat, but defeat a deadly enemy?

It is rarely, if ever, possible. At best once in a generation.

Take advantage when you can.

And do not pretend that the future of the Seahawks is not at stake on Sunday.

Seattle is 3-8 on the season. When they go into this week’s 13 match, they have a 2 percent chance of getting into the playoffs, per. FiveThirtyEight. Another loss effectively eliminates these playoff odds and creates what could be the most fateful offseason in modern franchise history.

The Seahawks would have five games left and no stakes.

Do not forget that the Seahawks swapped their pick in the first round for the Jets for box safety Jamal Adams in July 2020.

That trade was a perfect encapsulation of Seattle’s current problems, which have hit the knee this season and jeopardize their ability to compete in the coming seasons.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll wanted to recreate the famous Legion Of Boom defense with Adams, who would play the role of the former Seattle Grand Chancellor, despite the fact that Adams is nowhere near as good and that kind of defense is actually has been banned in the modern NFL.

So to land Adams from New York, the Seattle Jets sent a good safety – Bradley McDougald – and their choices in 2021 and 2022 in the first round. In addition, the Seattle gave Adams a new contract.

It was a move that was enigmatic at the moment and comical (from Niner’s perspective) in retrospect.

It was the kind of hasty, illogical move that a declining franchise is making. A nostalgia game from an organization devoid of new ideas. A death match for an once fantastic team.

It’s not surprising that the Seahawks thought they could get away with such an obvious rash and short-sighted (at best) – they have Russell Wilson. And in the last half decade plus, the little quarterback has made the whole of a list filled with gaps.

However, the Seahawks will not have Wilson next season.

Do not forget that after the 2019 season, the Seahawks and Wilson were in a messy and public contract negotiation. Wilson received his new deal, but a low season later, his camp sent out a list of favorite destinations via trade. Wilson claims he never demanded a trade, but that’s just distorted semantics. He wanted out. He stayed.

But not for long.

Wilson is clearly not happy with the leadership of the Seahawks under Pete Carroll, whose power in the organization is currently unchecked after the death of team owner Paul Allen. The team is now kept in trust.

Who could blame Wilson for wanting to go out? Carroll is stuck in trying to recreate the past – playing an uninspired, conservative, run-first offensive and trusting that an overmatched defense that is getting worse year by year is the backbone of the team. Every year, Carroll needs his All-Pro quarterback to save him. Year after year, Wilson has.

But Wilson missed time for the first time this season, and the whole world is able to see what the Seahawks are without him. Carroll and general manager John Schneider’s annual failures in the draft have left a non-quarterback list that is one of the worst in the NFL. Now they do not even have the channels to improve.

So Wilson will try to leave again out of season. If Carroll and Schneider facilitate a trade, they will receive a wealth of working capital – enough to restart the entire list.

If they do not move him, the descent will continue and an already toxic situation will become more messy.

I really think the end of the Seahawks is near. Following Wilson’s return and the embarrassing losses to the Packers and Washington Football Team, the season’s ninth defeat – resulting in Wilson’s first losing season as an NFL quarterback – will end this campaign – with an emphasis on pay – and set the wheels in motion out of season. .

The 49s have been in a place that is not so unequal not long ago. 2014 Niners tipped. The Jim Harbaugh situation was a tinderbox, and a once great team was about to fall apart.

Clearly, there was an entire season of work, but the Niners’ Week 13 and Week 15 losses to Seattle marked the end of the season. There would be no turnaround, only remodeling. Loss to an arch-rival carries such an extra weight.

There is almost no connection to the 2014 team, but the 49ers are still wearing red and gold – fans are still mostly the same – and Sunday may be the day San Francisco pays back the service to Seattle and sends them into the NFL abyss.

The Niners deserve this opportunity to expel some serious demons.

Let’s see them take it.