Field Gulls
When we last left the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams, it was looking grim for the Seahawks. Down 30-14 in the regular season home finale with the NFC West title hopes looking like they were going to be flushed down the drain. Another year, another win for Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay over the Seahawks. Sam Darnold isn’t the guy, Klint Kubiak should be fired, the defense is overrated, the sky is falling.
…But that’s why this is Part 2. This is where it starts a little bit rough but it has a strong ending that every Seahawks fan will appreciate.
Game thread comments on the Rams’ side are courtesy of Turf Show Times.
In a matter of minutes, the home of the Seattle Seahawks went from a painfully quiet Lumen “Library” to a rollicking madhouse that sent seismologists scrambling for their ground-motion sensors.
Call it the Sheesh-Quake Game.
In a historic comeback, the Seahawks dug their way out of a 16-point, fourth-quarter ditch to beat the Rams in overtime, 38-37.
Oh, the visitors will agonize over some of the bizarre calls, some deserving of further explanation from the NFL. An ineligible-man-downfield call that wiped out a Rams touchdown when they were a yard away from the end zone? That had people scratching their heads. Then there was that do-or-die two-point conversion that seemingly fell incomplete… but later was reversed. More on that in a moment.
When the Rams wincingly rewind the video of the collapse, they’ll be peering through the cracks in their fingers.
You’ve heard of a no-look pass? This was a no-look finish.
As soothing wins go, this was a warm bubble bath for the Seahawks, who secured a playoff berth and assumed the driver’s seat in the race for the NFC’s No. 1 seed.
This is the second time the Rams have built a lead of at least 16 points over a playoff team in the second half on the road and lost. The first came against the Eagles in Philadelphia, when they were up 26-7 early in the third quarter and lost 33-26 after back-to-back blocked...
