Seattle Seahawks: 4 takeaways from 27-26 win over Minnesota
Chris Phillips
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Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks.
Sunday night, the Seattle Seahawks beat Minnesota 27-26 in primetime. These are our four biggest takeaways from the game.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Another football Sunday. Another Seattle Seahawks victory. It’s like that Bill Murray movie Groundhogs Day. Such a great movie by the way from such a great actor. It was the details that made this game a nail-biter from start to finish.
The Seattle Seahawks first half performance can be summed up in one word, ugly. Although each team had four possessions, Minnesota dominated. They held the ball for 20:16, running 41 plays for 197 yards, while the Seahawks could only muster 61 net yards in 18 plays. At the half, Seattle trailed 13-0.
The game changed drastically in the second half. Minnesota’s first three possessions of the second half were a three-and-out, a fumble, and an interception. In six minutes the Seahawks turned a 13-0 deficit into a 21-13 lead. Just like every other game this season, the lead didn’t last. Minnesota rallied for two touchdowns of their on their next two drives to retake the advantage. After a Russell Wilson pick, they were on the move again late in the fourth quarter with two minutes left in the contest. That’s when Seattle’s heroics started.
Two minutes to victory
Facing a fourth-and-one at the Seattle six-yard-line, Minnesota decided to go for it instead of kicking a field goal to put them up by eight points. It was the wrong call. The Seahawks stopped running back Alexander Mattison cold, to force a turnover on downs. That allowed the Russell Wilson kitchen to open back up for the finale.
He took the Seahawks on the drive of the season. He wasn’t fantastic but he was #DangerRuss. The drive began with a 17-yard scramble to get the team away from it’s own goal line. Four plays later, he made a fourth-and-ten completion to D.K. Metcalf down the right side for 39 yards and the Seahawks were at Minnesota’s 38-yard line. Five of RW3’s next seven passes were incomplete leaving Seattle with a fourth and goal at the six. Somehow Chef Russ completed a bullet to his favorite waiter, Metcalf in the endzone to win the game.
Here are our four takeaways from the come from behind win.
LET RUSS COOK.
From the Seattle 6-yard line, Russell Wilson drives the Seahawks down the field and utilizes his favorite weapon along the way – D.K. Metcalf. Seattle wins this nail-biter 27-26.
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