Seahawks secure needed win with late game heroics, is it enough to save season?

SEATTLE — The standings will show it's just one win, and the Seahawks coaches and players will confirm that as part of their approach in getting ready for the next game.

But oh my goodness, it's so much more than that.

There's so many layers to peel back from the Seahawks special 20-17 win over San Francisco.

For starters, the first time the Hawks beat the 49ers since 2021, that's six straight losses including October's tough game at Lumen Field.

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It's also the first time that Geno Smith has beaten them as a starting quarterback in Seattle. That alone carries a ton of weight.

Let's look, however, at what it means for this year's team.

If there's something to take away from the win, it's how the Seahawks responded and it's the resilience they showed.

A team that lost five of their last six games found a way to respond and stay very much alive in the race to win the NFC West and find a spot in the playoffs.

A team that faced a 4th quarter deficit responded with a huge final drive and a touchdown from Smith.

It's like it was straight out of a movie script.

The response to the rough stretch, the response to a deficit, heck even the response to missing two tries for one yard earlier in the quarter.

It speaks to the resilience of this Seahawks team.

How the rest of the season will go is anyone's guess, but you wouldn't have had to guess with a loss Sunday against San Francisco.

At least for now, the season is saved. And it sets the stage for a huge game with first place in the NFC West on the line when the Seahawks host Arizona next weekend.

Should the Seahawks win that game, or make the postseason regardless, it's hard to imagine not looking at the 49ers win as a turning point.

After a brutal loss to the Rams, the Seahawks fought through some difficult moves by releasing Tyrel Dodson and seeing Connor Williams retire and somehow turned that adversity into the kind of win we haven't seen in three years.

That's the takeaway. The response, the resilience of this team.

It's setting the tone for the beginning of the Mike Macdonald era. That's not dismissing the dismal showings against Buffalo and the L.A. Rams, but it is saying that we're learning something about a Macdonald-led team very early in his Pacific Northwest tenure.

The Seahawks will never stop fighting and in the case of Sunday's game, it could very well lead to something special for 12s everywhere to enjoy.