{"id":432793,"date":"2026-01-25T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432793\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:49:09","slug":"rams-vs-seahawks-live-updates-nfl-playoffs-nfc-championship-game-score-predictions-odds-and-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432793\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams vs. Seahawks live updates: NFL playoffs NFC Championship Game score, predictions, odds and latest"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This is excerpted from Mike Sando\u2019s Pick Six column<\/a> from Jan. 19, 2026.)<\/p>\n

The Seahawks and Rams will play for a third time this season with a Super Bowl berth on the line. Much will be made about how even the first two games were on the scoreboard. That’s not the story.<\/p>\n

These teams have traveled much different paths since Seattle overcame a 16-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Rams in Week 16.<\/p>\n

The Rams have logged 13,500 air miles to play 6,824 player snaps across four games featuring 650 total plays. They outscored their opponents 115-95 in those games, and led by less than one point on average during any single play. That’s a grueling road from Seattle to Los Angeles to Atlanta and back, Charlotte and back, Chicago and back, and then up to Seattle.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks over the same time period have traveled less than 6,000 miles to play 4,411 player snaps across three games featuring 411 total plays. They outscored their opponents 81-19 in those games, and led by 10.2 points on average during any single play. That’s a breeze.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks probably won’t beat the Rams by the kind of margin they beat the 49ers, but the Rams, like the 49ers, fit the profile of a team without as much fuel remaining in the tank. They have made round trips to Charlotte and Chicago since Seattle last traveled (to the Bay Area in Week 18).<\/p>\n

If the Rams reach the Super Bowl, they will have earned it. But this game could get away from them if the Seahawks do not comply with turnovers (they’ve committed seven, while collecting only one, in their two games against the Rams so far this season).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(This is excerpted from Mike Sando\u2019s Pick Six column from Jan. 19, 2026.) The Seahawks and Rams will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-432793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}