Raiders 40, Seahawks 34
The 49ers are surging, so the Seahawks can’t afford to lose winnable games if they want to try to keep pace in the NFC West, but that is what happened on Sunday. Seattle’s defense had the opportunity to clinch the win, but the defense allowed a late fourth-quarter touchdown that sent the game to overtime. In the extra period, the Seahawks let Las Vegas running back Josh Jacobs gash them for an 86-yard walk-off touchdown. Jacobs’ prolific game set a Raiders franchise record for yards from scrimmage, putting up over 300 yards on the Seattle defense. The end result is that the Seahawks have fallen to 6-5 while the Raiders have improved to 4-7.
On the first play from scrimmage, Derek Carr overthrew Davante Adams, and Quandre Diggs brought in the diving interception to set up Seattle at the Las Vegas 12-yard line. A couple of plays later, Kenneth Walker III charged into the end zone to give the Seahawks an easy lead. The Raiders responded moving the ball down the field, and Carr found Ameer Abdullah running wide open into the end zone for an easy touchdown toss to tie the game.
After a Seahawks punt, Carr threw into triple coverage, and the pass was deflected, with Diggs snatching it for his second pick of the day. Geno Smith hit tight end Noah Fant for about 20 yards, and that set up a field goal to put Seattle up 10-7. After forcing a punt, Smith had a few completions to lead the Seahawks to another field goal. The Raiders quickly took the lead though, with Carr making a few completions before a flea flicker hit Mack Hollins wide open for a 36-yard touchdown and gave a 14-13 lead to the Raiders.
Smith had flirted with a few interceptions, but this time, the Raiders finished the play when Denzel Perryman picked him off and returning it about 30 yards to the Seattle 30. On the ensuing play, Jacobs put together a phenomenal run for a 30-yard score to put the Raiders up 21-13. Seattle quickly came back, with Smith lofting in a 35-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett (3-68-1), making the score 21-20. In the final seconds of the first half, Daniel Carlson drilled a field goal to make it 24-20 Raiders at halftime.
Seattle opened the third quarter by moving down the field before Walker found pay dirt again on a short touchdown run to go up 27-24. The Las Vegas ground game led the way to the a game-tying field goal. Smith then led a drive into Raiders territory, including a perfectly lofted pass to Travis Homer that converted a second-and-23, but Smith and Walker fumbled a handoff at the mesh point and Chandler Jones recovered the loose ball the Raiders.
