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Seahawks Keep Playoff Hopes Alive With OT Win In Week 18

Seahawks Keep Playoff Hopes Alive With OT Win In Week 18


The Seahawks did enough, barely, to keep their playoff hopes alive on Sunday, beating the Rams 19-16 in overtime to improve to 9-8.

The win didn’t get the Seahawks in the playoffs, but it kept them alive at least. To earn the NFC’s final Wild Card berth, the Seahawk will need a Lions win over the Packers on Sunday night or a tie between those teams. If Green Bay wins, it will be the No. 7 seed, knocking Seattle out.

Here are seven rapid reactions to Sunday’s overtime win:

1. Quandre Diggs made a season-saving play.

While the Seahawks won’t know their playoff fate until later in the evening, they may have been eliminated early in overtime if not for a great play by their Pro-Bowl safety. After the Seahawks offense went three-and-out on their first possession, setting up a next-score-wins scenario for the rest of overtime, the Rams came out looking for a big play, and for a moment they appeared to have it. Receiver Van Jefferson ran through Seattle’s defense, and for a moment looked to be wide open. Baker Mayfield saw it and threw deep, and a completion in that situation may very well have been a game-winning score, or at the very least put the Rams in position for a game-winning field goal.

But as he so often has done while patrolling centerfield for Seattle’s defense, Diggs made a great play, reading the throw, breaking on the ball, then undercutting Jefferson for the pick.

Seattle’s offense answered with a big drive to get Jason Myers into range for the game-winning field goal, and after missing at the end of regulation, Seattle’s Pro-Bowl kicker came through for the win.

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