The Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers 13-3 to secure the NFC West title and top spot in the NFC, which gives them a first-round bye and home advantage throughout the play-offs.<\/p>\n
Zach Charbonnet scored the game’s only touchdown and Jason Myers kicked two field goals for a Seahawks side whose victory was built on a strong defensive performance on the road.<\/p>\n
The win was their seventh in a row and gives them a 14-3 record.<\/p>\n
“Our defence picked us up. They have been all year. They’ve been doing a great job,” said Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n
Darnold passed for 198 yards, while team-mates Kenneth Walker III and Charbonnet rushed for 97 yards and 74 yards respectively.<\/p>\n
“Incredible. We worked so hard from day one,” said Walker. “We’ve been grinding up till now. But we got a lot of work to do, so we can’t get satisfied.” <\/p>\n
The 49ers (12-5) had their six-game winning run ended by a defeat which means they will be on the road for the wildcard round.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers kept their play-off hopes alive with a 16-14 win against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n
The Panthers, who needed a win to secure their play-off spot, scored with a late Jalen Coker touchdown but the Buccaneers held on for victory.<\/p>\n
Both teams have 8-9 losing records and will have to wait for the result of the game between the already-eliminated Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints to see who reaches the play-offs.<\/p>\n
A win for the Falcons will send Carolina through, while a Saints victory would mean the Buccaneers progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers 13-3 to secure the NFC West title and top spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-391194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}