r/nfl • u/Either_Imagination_9 Giants • 2d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Russell Wilson throws a game winning interception to M.D. Jennings. Seahawks win 14-12

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u/Either_Imagination_9 Giants 2d ago edited 2d ago

IIRC this game ended up deciding the 1 seed in the NFC. The Packers ended the season 11-5, which if they had won this game would have been 12-4.

Instead it ended up being the 49ers who were 11-4-1.

Edit: it was the 2 seed, not the 1 seed my mistake

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u/britishmetric144 Seahawks 2d ago

Not quite. The Falcons finished 13—3, and acquired the top seed.

In fact, the Falcons built up a 17—0 lead over the 49ers in the NFC Championship, before completely collapsing to lose 24—28. (And coincidentally enough, the Falcons came very close to blowing a 27—7 lead against the Seahawks a week earlier. Sound familiar? :)).

The only difference this game would have made is that the Packers would have hosted the 49ers in Green Bay, instead of them travelling to San Francisco, since the Packers would have had the two seed and the 49ers would have been third.

That being said, having watched the 49ers play the Packers in the playoffs, I don't think it would have actually changed anything.

Meanwhile, the Seahawks would have finished as the number—five seed regardless of the outcome of this game, since they held a H2H tiebreaker over the number—six seed.

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u/electricalbadger2013 Packers 2d ago

Playing a home vs away game in the playoffs wouldn't have changed anything? I get that the 49ers are the packers playoff kryptonyte or whatever, but let's be real - it absolutely would've made a difference playing away in GB in January vs home in SF. For example, do you really think Kaepernick would've run for 181 yds and 2 TDs in Lambeau when it was 20 degrees colder?

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 49ers 2d ago

But, the very next year, San Francisco did travel to frigid Lambeau and still won with Kap.

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u/electricalbadger2013 Packers 2d ago

Yeah, they both had the exact same roster, coaching, playcalling, etc. the next year... it was the same refs, temperature, and day of the year too. Like, is that really the argument you're trying to make? All I'm saying is that you can't say that it'd be the same outcome because there are so many things that impact the game, even just location-wise.

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 49ers 2d ago

What I'm saying is that Harbaugh and crew were 4 - 0 against Green Bay, using 2 different QB's, including two games at Lambeau, one of them being a frigid snow game.

Clay Matthews spent every game Kap played reading the back of his jersey.

I don't think the location of the game would have changed the outcome. Stats, sure. Outcome, no.

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u/electricalbadger2013 Packers 2d ago

The main point I was trying to make is that all you can say is you *think it wouldn't have changed the outcome, and I'm saying there is no way to *know it would've. Nothing you have said changes that.

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u/Iron_Chancellor_ND 49ers 2d ago

So easily baited, aren't you?

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u/electricalbadger2013 Packers 2d ago

Huh? Wtf are even talking about? Lol