Two Julian Love interceptions and a professional performance by Drew Lock saw the Seahawks snap a four-game losing streak with a 20-17 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
“what an event for our crowd and our fans and the following and all that. What a beautiful night for a Monday Night Football game. To make it that dramatic, incredible football game. One nobody will forget that game. It was an interesting game in that early on we didn’t get going well. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said after the game. “
We stumbled on a couple of penalties and things like that. Just lost our drives. Defense gave up an easy drive kind of in the first one, but then we just hung in there, kept hanging and hanging. That really was the theme of the night, that we just kept playing, knowing if we kept hanging in there, something could happen. We stuck with it.”
QUICK START
Unlike his counterpart who was also listed a questionable for the game Philadelphia Eagles quarterback started the game and engineered a 15-play 75-yard drive that ended with a three-yard TD run. The impressive drive took 8 minutes and 29 seconds.
With Geno Smith unable to play Drew Lock was given his second consecutive start of the season. The Seahawk’s first two drives ended in punts due to a lack of execution and the same old self-inflicted wounds. Tight Ends Will Dissly and Noah Fant were both flagged for false starts on each of the Seahawks first two drives. With Seattle unable to get out of its own way the Eagles stretched their lead to 10-0 halfway in the second quarter.
CHANGE OF PLAN
Sensing the game slipping away Seahawks offensive Coordinator Sean Waldron mixed up the playing calling between the pass and the run. The strategy worked.
Ken Walker had a vital 13-yard run for a first down while Lock connected with Jaxson Smith-Njiba for 13 yards on third and 10. The drive stalled at the Eagles 11 yard line after back-to-back incomplete passes by Lock. The Seahawks settled for a Jason Myers 26-yard field to get on the board. The field goal was a confidence booster for the Seahawks who were scheduled to receive the second-half kickoff.
FAST PACED SECOND HALF
The Seahawks took the second-half kickoff and tied the game on a 9-play 75 drive that took up 4:55. In the drive to open the second half the Seahawks ran the ball six times and passed it 3 times. Ken Walker has 47 yards on 4 carries. Charbonnet had 2 carries for 11 yard
EAGLES ANSWER
The game turned into an offensive shootout when the Eagles answered the Seahawk’s scoring drive with another long drive. This one was a 12-play 75 yard drive that ended with another Hurts run. The one-yard run was Hurt’s second touchdown run of the game and gave the Eagles a 17-10 lead. The drive took up 5:22 of the game clock. The Seahawks answered that drive with a Jason Myers 43-yard field goal to close within four points.
WILD FOURTH QUARTER
Julian picked off Hurts on the Eagle’s next offensive possession, but the opportunity was squandered by a Seahawks three and out on the next offensive possession. The Seahawks continued its dominant effort and forced another Eagles punt which gave the ball back to Drew Lock and the Seahawk offense with 1:52 left in the game.
LOCK ENGINEERS UNFORGETTABLE DRIVE
Starting from his eight-yard line Lock engineered a clinical game-winning drive Lock was three of six to start the drive. On third down and ten Lock connected with DK Metcalf for 34 yards and brought the ball to the Eagles 29-yard line with 40 seconds. Two incomplete passes had Lock facing another third and down with 33 seconds left in the game. All Lock needed was one more chance. A perfectly timed throw to the right endzone landed in the hands of streaked Smith–Njigba for the game-winning score .
” That was a lot of fun. I mean, it was more than fun. I can’t find the right word for it right now. It was a blast. One of those classic NFL games. Besides the two-minute drive in the first half, three drives there, couple penalties stopped us, scored on one of them. Hats off to our defense tonight. For us scoring (20), I think that’s what we scored, I just know that we scored a little bit more than they did, but for them holding them to what they did tonight, that’s a powerful offense who scores lots of points. Hats off to them.”
The Eagles had one more chance to tie or win the game, but that door was shut when Love intercepted Hurts for the second time in the game
