49ers fans will be sick with 2 brutal Levi Stadium stats for Seahawks in Super Bowl 60 originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The San Francisco 49ers‘ home field, Levi’s Stadium, got to play host to Super Bowl 60 this season. Unfortunately, their division rival, the Seattle Seahawks, not only played in the Super Bowl but won.
As if that wasn’t already brutal enough, to see a division rival win the Super Bowl in their stadium, there were some unfortunate statistics that made things a whole lot worse.
According to Jack Andrade of NFL Network, two statistics from Super Bowl 60 showed not only how dominant the Seahawks were, but how much the 49ers struggled this season in Levi’s Stadium.
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“The Seahawks defense had more sacks (9) and takeaways (4) in 2 games at Levi’s stadium this season than the 49ers did in their 8 home games combined (7 sacks, 3 takeaways,” Andrade notes. “Kenneth Walker III also had more runs of 20+ yards (3) than the whole SF team (2) in that stadium.”
That first statistic is hard to comprehend. The Seahawks played just two games in Levi’s Stadium this year, one of those being the Super Bowl.
Across those two games, they forced four turnovers (three in the Super Bowl) and got nine total sacks (six in the Super Bowl). Compared to the 49ers defense this season at Levi’s Stadium, the Seahawks were better in two games compared to the 49ers eight.
That’s a brutal statistic for the 49ers, and highlights how, more than anything else, they desperately need better defense this offseason.
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But another brutal statistic is the explosive runs from Kenneth Walker III in the Super Bowl. He had three runs of 20+ yards in Levi’s Stadium, with the 49ers having just two all season.
Their run game wasn’t the best, with Christian McCaffrey struggling more in the run game than in the receiving game. The run blocking wasn’t as good, and CMC wasn’t as explosive this season.
There weren’t any trick plays to get the 49ers over the hump either, as the Super Bowl MVP has more 20+ yard runs in two games than the 49ers’ entire offense did in eight games this season at Levi’s Stadium.
Not only were the 49ers forced to watch their division rival win the Super Bowl in their home stadium, but the Seahawks defense and the Super Bowl MVP put together better performances in just two games than the Niners did all season.
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