Seahawks vs 49ers: 5 takeaways from Seattle’s Blowout win

The Seattle Seahawks finally got their offense on track and the result was a massive blowout of the San Francisco 49ers.

This is exactly the type of game the Seattle Seahawks needed. After two weeks of very poor offensive football, they exploded to a 38-18 blowout of division rival San Francisco. The 49ers had no answers for anything the Seahawks were doing on either side of the football.

It should be noted that San Francisco simply isn’t a good football team. Beating up on the dregs of the NFL should never be confused with beating a good football team.

At this same time, this is exactly what the Seahawks should do when they play a bad team. If the Seahawks are going to contend for another Super Bowl, they better be able to blow out the bad teams on their schedule.

Here are my fave takeaways from Seattle’s blowout win:

1. The offensive line was better…

If we’re going to be critical when they’re terrible (and they’d been terrible) than it is only fair that we praise them when they play well. Seattle’s offensive line played much better this week. When Wilson and Christine Michael get blocking, good things happen.

The unit was still far from perfect. The group was penalized over and over. Blocks were missed and sacks were given up.

Despite all of that, this was still a major step forward for Seattle’s line. They were better, and it would be wrong to not recognize the improvement.