This was a frustrating game to watch, no matter your rooting interest. If you had Thomas Rawls, Todd Gurley, Jimmy Graham, Steven Hauschka - even Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin or the Seahawks defense, to an extent. Essentially only Tyler Lockett vastly overperformed his projection for the game, and he would have been a gamble in your semifinals. If you had the Seahawks minus 16 like I did, even that was like pulling teeth. Richard Sherman had it right.

• The Seahawks don't trust their running game at all. Sure, Thomas Rawls had only 34 yards on 21 carries, but even with first and goal from the one, they tried Marcel Reece on an upback hand-off and three passing plays rather than letting Rawls get a shot.

• The disparity between the Rams and Seahawks punters was massive - Johnny Hekker averaged 54 yards per kick, John Ryan a meager 36. Of course, Ryan had a 26-yard run on a fake, but the middle of the field was so wide open even Philip Rivers would have gotten 20 on that play.

• Todd Gurley has had nowhere to run all year, and quarterback and coaching changes have made no difference whatsoever.

• The Rams actually could have been in this game but for a couple failed fourth down tries, a failed fake punt, a successful fake punt by Seattle, a bad drop downfield by Mike Thomas and a missed throw to a wide open downfield receiver by Jared Goff.

• To sum up how sad the Rams season is, Jared Goff, the team's No. 1 overall pick, got popped and possibly concussed on a running play that was called back due to a holding penalty. He took the hit for naught.

• Seattle looked for Lockett for much of the game - he was targeted on eight of Russell Wilson's 26 attempts - and he caught seven for 130 and a touchdown.

• Jimmy Graham saw only two targets, one fewer than Luke Willson.