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The Seattle Seahawks have an elite defense and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan has experienced that first hand.
The Niners and Seahawks squared off three times this season, including twice in the regular season and once in the playoffs.
In those three games, Shanahan's offense scored a combined 26 points, and the Niners failed to score a single touchdown in each of the last two meetings, one of which came in the divisional round last month.
Shanahan is a guest analyst on NBC ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday and when he was asked what makes Seattle's elite defense so difficult, he had the most brutally honest — and hilarious — answer.
"I know you guys want my expert opinion, but I haven't scored a TD on these guys the last two times I've seen them," Shanahan said.
That's fair.
San Francisco did manage to pull out a victory and score two touchdowns when the two teams met back in September, with the last one coming in the fourth quarter of that contest.
Since then, the 49ers have converted three field goals over the last eight quarters versus the Seahawks and that is the entire extent of their scoring output.
When the regular season was all said and done, the Seahawks finished sixth in total yards allowed, 10th in passing yards, third in rushing yards and first in points.
Shanahan and the rest of the NFL are going to have to figure this unit out because the Seahawks aren't going anywhere anytime soon, as Seattle is well-positioned to be a head ache for the entire division for years to come thanks to its youth and cap space.
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