Thanksgiving is the best holiday that doesn't involve gifts, except this year Seahawks fans were given a massive gift: a 19-3 win over the San Francisco 49ers on national television. It was the Seahawks’ first win in San Francisco (well, Santa Clara, but who cares about silly things like playing games in your home city) since 2008. The Seahawks are now in a great position to make the playoffs. Current odds would put them somewhere around 65 to 75 percent to qualify for the postseason depending on the metric used. Had they lost, we’d be looking at a very sufferable 25 to 35 percent chance of playoff football.

Despite the narratives that say the Seahawks aren't very good, the team came into this game looking really dangerous. To nerd out for a second, the run offense DVOA is the second highest in the past 25 years, which is to say that the running combination of Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson is damn near unparalleled in league history in terms of per-play efficiency. Wilson came in averaging a staggering 7.7 yards per carry. The defense, as it's gotten healthier (how good is Bobby Wagner?), has reestablished itself as one of the best units in the league, and is currently down only run-stopping tackle Brandon Mebane and reserve linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis. Last week’s 19-3 win over the Cardinals was a statement that anything less than a great offensive effort won’t be enough to score on this team.

This game against the Niners, though? Next level. We just merged into the HOV lane on the Insufferable Road to Rewinnining the Super Bowl, and flipped off the guy driving really slowly in front of us in a Toyota Corolla. Let’s break it down:

• Colin Kaepernick essentially played Marty McFly ball on Thursday, to idiotically tragic effect. What am I talking about? If you remember in Back to the Future II, Marty’s crucial weakness was being called chicken. When that happened, all sense and rationality flew out the window, moving the plot forward in crazy ways. I feel like Kaepernick attacked Richard Sherman with the irrationality of Marty McFly after someone called him chicken.

Essentially, my question is: Why are you throwing at Richard Sherman at all, Colin? What are you doing?

• Also, I’m just going to leave a link to Colin Kaepernick’s Seahawks.com highlight reel here. I can’t quite tell who is getting trolled with this clip package, but I love it with every fiber of my being.

• As tightly as the officials have cracked down on the Seahawks all year (Seattle leads the league in penalties called and penalty yards), much of that has been the result of self-inflicted damage. Despite the league’s crackdown on defensive holding, the Seahawks have been plagued by dumb false starts, offsides, neutral zone infractions… pretty much everything except for those ticky-tacky illegal contact calls. Well, until this week, when the defensive holding flags turned a pleasant rout into a most unpleasant rout. That the inevitable crazy defensive penalty game happened in San Francisco is typical. That the Seahawks still won 19-3 is damn impressive.

• Russell Wilson beard update:

(via @Jose8BS)

Fuller?

Yes.

Plus, black on black?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

• San Francisco 49ers rookie linebacker Chris Borland has done an admirable job all season long as he’s filled in for the injured Navarro Bowman and Patrick Willis. He was arguably the 49ers' best player on Thursday. He also met Beast Mode.

(via Bleacher Report)

WHEEEEE! This may be my new favorite 49ers .gif. Oh wait…

Nope. It's still this one.

• On my way home from a Thanksgiving spent on Vashon Island, I saw a sign for a pizza place asking customers to fire up, “Yeast Mode,” and order some pizza. Yeast Mode. Yeast… Mode. Yeast Mode. I dunno guys. Yeast Mode? I think I love it.

The Seahawks have a long layoff before heading to Philadelphia for another huge NFC showdown next Sunday against the very good Eagles, quarterbacked by the very Mark Sanchezy Mark Sanchez. Spoiler alert: All of the Seahawks' remaining games are huge NFC showdowns, but Sanchez against our secondary? Yikes. The way the team is playing, they should be targeting an undefeated record the rest of the way and the NFC West crown. Is that insufferably demanding of a team that has just found its top form and still sits well back of the Cardinals? Yes. Yes it is. I’m doing it anyway.