Seahawks hoping to get even with 49ers

RENTON — One can pick a day or time this season that the Seahawks' fortunes turned for the worse, there being plenty of moments. Right near the top, though, is the 33-30 overtime loss to the San Francisco in Week 2.

The Seahawks let leads of 14-0 and 20-13 slip away and couldn't get off the field on defense in their efforts to hold a 30-27 lead late in the fourth quarter. San Francisco tied the game at 30 with a Joe Nedney field goal and won in overtime with a 40-yarder, stunning the Seahawks and the fans at Qwest Field.

A 33-yard pass from J.T. O'Sullivan to Isaac Bruce in overtime set up the winning kick. It came on a third-and-7 play.

The Seahawks remember the game like it was yesterday. In the third quarter, the Seahawks led 20-13 and where driving for another score when a holding penalty on right guard Floyd Womack pushed them back to the 49ers' 25. On the very next play, linebacker Patrick Willis intercepted a tipped pass from Matt Hasselbeck and ran it back 86 yards for the game-tying touchdown.

"You could easily argue it was a 14-point swing," Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said. "It was just too bad. We had our chances and we just let it slip away. We had a lot of penalties in that game, wow ... So hopefully we can clean up some of that stuff and play better."

The Seattle offense came back the next week with a good showing in an easy win over the St. Louis Rams, but it has failed to reach the 200-yard mark in the past three games.

The idea for this week in the rematch against the 49ers is to be more aggressive.

"That's the bottom line. I think we've been a little reserved, rightfully so," wide receiver Bobby Engram said. "I'm sure it's been tough on Mike [Holmgren] to try and dial up plays when he's not sure who's going to be in there or what the situation is, or the circumstances. But as players, we've got to go out there and make the best of the game plan and what he calls, and execute it. Hopefully we can expand that a bit this week."

On defense, the Seahawks gave up 365 yards to the 49ers, who have since lost four of their past five. The game film is being reviewed over and over this week.

"You look at it, you dang near memorize it," defensive coordinator John Marshall said.

Marshall doesn't expect new 49ers coach Mike Singletary to change anything, that he will leave the offense to coordinator Mike Martz, who has a history of success against the Seahawks from his St. Louis days.

"I know what I'm going to get out of Mike Martz's offense," Marshall said. "I guarantee you, it would take an edict from the good Lord in heaven to get Mike Martz to change what he's doing. He's going to run his stuff, which is a collage of everything ever known to modern football."

Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu said the one thing that made the loss harder was that it was a division game. The Seahawks had eight sacks of O'Sullivan.

"He should have been sacked three or four more times," Tatupu said. "He's a fighter. You can't say he wasn't taking his hits."

José Miguel Romero: 206-464-2409 or jromero@seattletimes.com