"Seahawks senior personnel executive Scot McCloughan said his Seahawks "we're going to beat the hell out of 'em" and 'em are the 49ers. McCloughan made the comment to Yahoo's Mike Silver. This is the perfect out of context comment that can nevertheless spark a backlash.

In the story, Silver describes McCloughan as laughing as he said it. But that will likely get lost in translation as the 49ers prepare to defend their second-playoff seeding against Seattle on Christmas Eve."