The Seahawks’ playoff berth is a 'reaffirmation' for Pete Carroll | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC
night was because the Seahawks somehow managed to hold off the Rams in what could have been Sean? Mcveigh’s final game with the team will be talking about that later in the program but the Seahawks get the win 19 216 in overtime, excruciating for Lions fans. Great shot last night on football night in America of lions fans, in the stands at Lambeau Field, seeing the Seahawks try, a game-winning field goal and Don’t get off the uprights sending the game to overtime. The Lions thought. Maybe we’re going to go into a winning in scenario. Instead the Seahawks
by getting the Victory and this is the one, you know, Baker Mayfield. Just just a little just a hair. I mean it’s a long tough thrown. It would have been something. If he completed it van Jefferson’s got to wait on it. Just a little bit quandary, digs comes over and makes the pick. I don’t know why. I just ran straight out of bounds. I would have turned it up and try to get some yardage there but it all worked out. And the Seahawks end up getting the win in overtime, 32-yard field goal and the Seahawks
punched their ticket to the playoffs that they didn’t know would be a valid and honored ticket until the lines beat
still knows what he’s doing and Geno Smith. After eight years of not being a starting quarterback back under Center, getting it done. Kind of tailed off toward the middle to the end of the season, but just enough to get in and it sets up for a fascinating. Wildcard game because any time you play a division rival in the postseason, I think it just has a different vibe to it because they’re not intimidated by the fact that you’re the to see, they’re not afraid of you. If anything, they relish the opportunity to come in there and
beat you. A kind of reminds me of how I thought it was shaping up with the Vikings is the two seed and the Packers are the Lions is the 7 seed. Here’s the 49ers at the to see to now here are the Seahawks is the seventh seat. Yeah. And it’s going to be an interesting matchup, like you said between the the Seahawks and the 49ers Next week. But you know, it was one of those games that could have gone either way and coaches say this all the time and sometimes I get annoyed by it. But
like you know, oh man if the four to six plays that were critical players in the game, go one way or the other way. Then you know, that’s the difference. And to his credit showing, they didn’t say that yesterday, but it was just one of those things where you could see that. The Rams really did have opportunities to win that game. They were times where it looked like they would get off the field and the penalty happen or look like they would get off the field and something else would happen. If they let up a
big completion, the Seahawks were able to stay the course Geno. Smith made the critical plays when he needed to make them. And, you know, they had that huge interception by digs maybe if Baker Mayfield doesn’t put quite enough aspirin, quite so much air under that ball tube and Jefferson were having a different conversation today, but they were able to get it done. And so now we will see Seattle in the postseason and I think it’s a really good thing for them. And you know what, Pete Carroll console coach ball Geno Smith, by the way, doubled
his money this year. And a half million dollar base salary. He earned every penny of his three and a half million in incentives to get to 7 which is still one hell of a bargain cereal, Seahawks a wire to wire, starting quarterback making seven million dollars in, today’s NFL that and hey, we’ll see that there’s the this off season is going to be nuttier than usual. When you look around at all, the quarterback jobs that make Come available. We were trying to do this within the past couple of weeks and it’s easier to list the
teams that are settled than unsettled at quarterback because there are fewer of them and so every team that’s on settled. What are you going to do? There’s plenty of options out there and you’ve got Geno Smith at the top of the list of free agents who will walk out the door, unfettered unencumbered unless the Seahawks sign into new contract or apply the franchise tag, which they can’t take off the table at this point. If they can’t work out, a long-term deal with him. And he’s done too much to this to this team’s fortunes and gotten
them to the playoffs in his first year as a starter. So kudos to the Seahawks for getting it done.