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Getty Images Should the 49ers have taken a tie at the end of overtime on Monday night? It’s a fair question, given the benefit of emerging from the game with a two-game lead in the loss column over the Seahawks, Saints, and Packers. 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan dismissed the notion of...

Getty Images In just five games since being elevated from the team’s practice squad last month, Jacob Hollister has emerged as a consistent receiving option at tight end for the Seattle Seahawks. Hollister has caught multiple passes in each of Seattle’s last four games. In their consecutive...

Getty Images Vikings receiver Adam Thielen likely won’t be back until Week 13, at the earliest. Thielen isn’t practicing again today, according to Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. As Tomasson notes, it looks like Thielen won’t play on Sunday against the Broncos. Thielen initially...

Getty Images Seattle’s Shaquem Griffin has played in every game this season, but until Monday night he had played exclusively on special teams. Now he’s getting a bigger role on defense. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said after Griffin got 14 snaps as a situational pass rusher against the 49ers...

Getty Images Seattle’s first overtime drive on Monday night included a highly questionable call that became quickly forgotten, given that quarterback Russell Wilson converted third and 16 on the very next play. Wilson was determined to be in the grasp, even though it appeared that he wasn’t...

Getty Images Seahawks wide receiver Tyler Lockett did not travel back to Seattle with the team after Monday night’s overtime win over the 49ers because he went to a hospital for treatment of a leg injury. Lockett remained in the hospital on Tuesday, but his stay is coming to an end. Adam...

Getty Images Above almost anything else, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll believes in the importance of possessing the football. “It’s about the ball” is one of Carroll’s core coaching tenets. Monday night against the San Francisco 49ers, the Seahawks did not do a very good job of following...

Getty Images Analytics have become more and more prevalent regarding the decisions made within the confines of a given football game. During last night’s classic between the Seahawks and 49ers, a broader question of low-level analytics could have been considered by the team that ultimately lost...

Getty Images Geno Smith added to the coin flip controversy Tuesday night, tweeting that he called, “Hails.” The Seahawks backup quarterback made the call for the visitors before the start of overtime. The video isn’t clear on Smith’s choice, but many took to social media saying they heard...

Getty Images Quandre Diggs played his first game as a Seahawk on Monday night, and coach Pete Carroll loved what he saw. Diggs, a safety acquired for a fifth-round draft pick in a trade with the Lions, intercepted a pass and played all 88 defensive snaps in the Seahawks’ overtime victory over...

Getty Images The 49ers welcomed their starting tackles back to the lineup Monday night, but Jadeveon Clowney made them look like rust was the least of their concerns. The Seahawks defensive end was named NFC defensive player of the week for a dominant performance in Monday’s overtime win...

Getty Images The Seahawks had firm control of Monday night’s game in the fourth quarter, leading 21-10 and suffocating the San Francisco offense. The 49ers would get back into the game only if Seattle let them. And Seattle did, thanks to a screwy sequence on offense. Quarterback Russell...

Getty Images The 49ers lost their first game of the year on Monday night, which didn’t knock them from the top perch in the NFC playoff picture but did make things tighter in the race for the No. 1 seed in the conference. A win would have left them two games up on the Packers and Saints in the...

Getty Images The 49ers called on Chase McLaughlin to tie Monday’s game with a 47-yard kick against the Seahawks at the end of regulation and McLaughlin came through with his third field goal of the night. McLaughlin then got a chance to cap his 49ers debut with a game-winning kick in overtime...

Getty Images The overtime coin toss has caused controversy, from time to time. The Steelers-Lions Thanksgiving Day “he said heads” gaffe from 1998 caused the league to ditch the ritual of calling it in the air. In a 2015 playoff game between the Packers and Cardinals, the coin didn’t flip...

Getty Images The Seahawks apparently got some good news, after wide receiver Tyler Lockett stayed behind at the hospital last night for treatment of a leg contusion. Via Michael-Shawn Dugar of TheAthletic.com, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said during his appearance on 710 ESPN today that...

Getty Images Emmanuel Sanders is headed to the locker room with 10:07 remaining in the second quarter. The 49ers report the receiver is being checked for a rib injury and list him as questionable to return. Sanders has two catches for 24 yards, but the injury came on an incompletion. Sanders...

The 49ers were in total control. They’re still in control but no longer in total control. The Seahawks have had no offensive success, but they made it happen on defense late in the first half. Jarran Reed and Jadeveon Clowney combined to get Seattle on the board. On a stunt, Reed got to Jimmy...

Getty Images The Seahawks’ defensive additions have them in the lead in the second half against the undefeated 49ers. Jimmy Garoppolo‘s three turnovers have cost the 49ers the lead. Seattle leads 21-10, having used Garoppolo’s two fumbles and an interception for 21 unanswered points...

Getty Images The San Francisco 49ers are no longer unbeaten and the NFC West race just got a whole lot more interesting. It took until the final play of overtime but Jason Myers converted a 42-yard field goal to lift the Seattle Seahawks to a 27-24 victory over the 49ers on Monday night...