If the season is viewed in quarters, as Pete Carroll likes to do, then the third quarter was a complete disaster for the Seattle Seahawks and the fourth quarter needs to be nearly perfect for a team that believed it was playoff-caliber to reach its goal. Seattle lost its fourth straight game on Sunday, 28-16 to San Francisco, another performance that widened the massive gap between the 49ers and Seahawks in the NFC West. Losing four straight games is a first for Carroll in his Seattle tenure and dropped the Seahawks (6-7) below .500.