Please, 49ers and their fans need to get over themselves.
I'm not trying make excuses but if ONE, just ONE, of these 3 players played vs Atlanta... out of Chris Clemons, Jason Jones, and Walter Thurmond... Seahawks most likely would have edged out the Falcons. I.E. Jones or Clemons would have played the edge and would have had better results than one dimensional pass rusher, Irvin. Thurmond likely would have matched up better vs Julio Jones especially at the end. Then onto San Francisco, and who knows what happens in a game where we aren't starting at 10 A.M in the morning our time. Seahawks were one defining player away from a Cinderella story.
However, this won't sound like an excuse... Give the Seahawks just as much overall experience as the 49ers have (had last year)... I would take the Seahawks every time. Young teams will always go through growing pains, finally click, and boom goes the dynamite.
Yet the Seahawks, took every weakness they've had after analyzing the 2012 team and they fixed it accordingly trading for Percy Harvin, for starters, then allowing Gus Bradley to leave rather easily, and bringing back Dan Quinn. Quinn to me is the biggest acquisition, imo, on defense that we made this year. And we made some pretty damn good ones at that. Bring it on NFL. Were All In.