Seattle and Sam Darnold will lose their first playoff game of the 2025 season.

Read first round as the team's first playoff appearance, corroborated by the same-author follow-up predicting zero playoff wins. Do not invent a wild-card game for a team that earned a bye.

Seattle won its first postseason game, 41-6 over San Francisco on January 17, 2026 after its first-round bye. Darnold completed 12 of 17 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown.

Same zero-playoff-wins thesis minutes later. Casual in-two-weeks language does not turn the bye into a winning prediction; one canonical first-game-exit score.

Read first round as the team's first playoff appearance, corroborated by the same-author follow-up predicting zero playoff wins. Do not invent a wild-card game for a team that earned a bye. Jev advisory reviewed: Grade first playoff appearance incorrect. Original first-round idiom is corroborated by the same-author no-playoff-win follow-up; Seattle's documented bye does not make an elimination call correct. Jev low-confidence fidelity flag reviewed; no synthetic wild-card game introduced.

Earlier explicit one-and-done postseason thesis. Generic self-destruct language is not a separate score.

Earlier explicit one-and-done postseason thesis. Generic self-destruct language is not a separate score.

Seattle won its first postseason game, 41-6 over San Francisco on January 17, 2026 after its first-round bye. Darnold completed 12 of 17 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown.

Earlier explicit one-and-done postseason thesis. Generic self-destruct language is not a separate score. Jev advisory reviewed: Low-confidence fidelity flag reviewed. In the Darnold thread, explicit one-and-done in the playoffs plus Seattle reference is an expected first-appearance exit. On pace does not make a concrete football forecast unscorable. Same later canonical thesis; preserve one result.

Earlier unequivocal first-playoff-game exit prediction. Round 1 means their first postseason appearance, not automatic loss from earning a bye.

Earlier unequivocal first-playoff-game exit prediction. Round 1 means their first postseason appearance, not automatic loss from earning a bye.

Seattle won its first postseason game, 41-6 over San Francisco on January 17, 2026 after its first-round bye. Darnold completed 12 of 17 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown.

Repeated first-game playoff exit prediction.

Repeated first-game playoff exit prediction.

Earlier unequivocal first-playoff-game exit prediction. Round 1 means their first postseason appearance, not automatic loss from earning a bye. Jev advisory reviewed: Jev incorrectly supported 12-13 wins from a 14-3 result; reject that arithmetic and grade incorrect. Game log independently proves zero 49ers interceptions, falsifying both-game interception claim. Wrong Jan8 date resolved to unique remaining regular-season matchup Jan3 with original wording retained.

Earlier definite first-playoff-game exit prediction.

Earlier definite first-playoff-game exit prediction.

Seattle won its first postseason game, 41-6 over San Francisco on January 17, 2026 after its first-round bye. Darnold completed 12 of 17 passes for 124 yards and a touchdown.

Earlier definite first-playoff-game exit prediction. Jev advisory reviewed: Verified public originals and primary outcomes support proposed rulings. Preserve both correct coaching firings and Steelers playoff exit. Link repeated/revised forecasts once; exact selection and compensation wording retained.