San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan will seek revenge for the 49ers’ drubbing in last year’s playoffs at the hands of the reigning Super Bowl champion Seahawks as the NFC West foes clash in Seattle Sunday.
Shanahan admitted his side, who have started this season a perfect 4-0, have extra motivation ahead of Sunday’s rematch. Also in a packed NFL gameweek, the Packers and Bears take their historic rivalry back to Green Bay, high-flying Jacksonville face Philadelphia in London, and the Los Angeles Rams host the Buffalo Bills in a tantalizing test of this season’s two current Super Bowl favorites on Monday.
By contrast Seattle, after its 12-game winning streak was snapped, has looked shaky in recent weeks. But “I feel like we’re a new team, they’re a new team, and we’ll see how this series starts this year. We’ve got them at least twice, and you never know if we have to play them a third,” he added. “You put the ball in Deebo’s hand, and he can execute it. The Jaguars enter as favorites for this season’s second game at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, part of the NFL’s ever-growing international schedule. “We’re on a two-game losing streak…
“Playing a divisional game always feels a little bit more, playing a big rival like the Seahawks always does, them being the Super Bowl winners, how the last game went, so everything,” said the coach. He runs as good as anyone,” said Shanahan. It’s crazy but every adversity that I’ve been in through my life, they’re not comfortable at the time, but they produce the most growth,” said coach Nick Sirianni.
