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Can the Seahawks keep winning ugly? Can they beat the Packers? They’ll have to play better than this.

PHILADELPHIA – Maybe the Seahawks can really pull this off.

Maybe they can keep churning out these “bumpy” victories, to use coach Pete Carroll’s term, where you wait in vain for them to forge a comfortable lead, instead of the rope-a-dope, win-ugly, skin-of-their-teeth affairs that are now customary.

Sunday’s 17-9 playoff victory over the Eagles gave them 11 of their 12 wins this season by one score, with a scoring margin of a razor-thin plus-15. They won Sunday by more points (eight) than their cumulative scoring margin for the regular season (plus-seven).

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(Rich Boudet / The Seattle Times)

Seahawks 17, Eagles 9