Smith pays 49ers’ win streak vs. Seahawks no mind ahead of Week 6 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Ownage is ownage, but Geno Smith and the Seattle Seahawks are leaving the past in the past.

The 49ers, winners of five consecutive regular-season and playoff games over the Seahawks dating to the 2022 NFL season, enter the “Thursday Night Football” matchup against their NFC West rivals at Lumen Field looking to extend the streak.

Smith was asked Tuesday about San Francisco’s current winning streak and what Seattle needs to do to stop it.

“It’s just about this game,” the Seahawks quarterback told reporters. “Those five games don’t help them, don’t help us. It’s about this game and focusing on this Thursday night. That’s all that really matters. Obviously, yeah, you can say that, but you can go past that and say we’ve beat them five straight times. So, I think it doesn’t really matter. It’s now just about this game and what we do now.”

The 49ers’ defense, despite its up-and-down start to the 2024 season, still is considered one of the league’s best on paper and should keep Smith and the Seahawks’ offense on its toes all game.

“What they do well, obviously they’re great at causing turnovers,” Smith explained. “You talk about personnel, Nick Bosa, one of the better D-ends in the league, and then you’ve got Fred Warner, Mike ‘backer, one of the better middle linebackers in the game. They’ve got playmakers all around the defense, they play together, they fly around, they’ve got swagger, they’re proven, they believe in themselves.

“And so they come in, they’re not going to try and trick you as far as scheme goes. They’re going to line up and force you to beat them for 60 minutes. So, we respect them, they’ve been a great team — especially in recent years — and it’s time for us to go out there and get it done.”

The storied rivalry has been one-sided in recent years — San Francisco has beaten Seattle by an average 29.6-to-14.4 score over the last five games — but Smith and the Seahawks hope to end the 49ers’ winning ways Thursday night.

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