Redskins vs. Seahawks: Highlights, game tracker and more

The Washington Redskins faced the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Nov. 5 in Week 9 of the 2017 NFL season. Here are highlights from the game.

The Washington Redskins headed west this week to face the Seattle Seahawks in all-important NFC battle. At 5-2, Seattle sat tied atop the NFC West with the Los Angeles Rams and was coming off an exciting 41-38 victory over the Houston Texans. It was a historic performance for Seahawks’ quarterback Russell Wilson, who passed for 452 yards and four touchdowns.

The Redskins entered this week’s game in a totally different state. After starting the season 2-1 and coming within Josh Doctson’s fingertips of defeating Kansas City in Week 4 to move to 3-1, Washington has struggled, mainly due to an obscene amount of injuries on both sides of the ball.

As you might’ve expected with two teams as banged up as these in this game, things were ugly from the opening kickoff. After trading punts, the Redskins fumbled, but then forced a three-and-out. However, the ensuing punt pinned Washington back deep. That led to a sack and a safety to put the Seahawks up 2-0. However, they were unable to pull away as Blair Walsh missed a field goal.

Seattle’s offensive woes continued as their defense stepped up. They forced two three-and-outs, but their two possessions ended in a Russell Wilson interception and then another missed field goal by Walsh. The latter sparked the Redskins, though, as they were able to march down the field on a 13-play, 71-yard drive that ended in the first touchdown of the game.

Throughout the rest of the half and the third quarter, both groups looked largely anemic — including a third missed field goal for Walsh — and it was 10-2 in favor of the visitors going into the final frame.

In that final period, though, Wilson and the Seahawks stepped up. Beginning with a six-play, 66-yard drive, he found Luke Willson for a touchdown, but failed to get the two-point conversion. The two teams then traded three-and-outs before the Redskins had a fruitless nine-play drive.

Seattle then fed off the home crowd as Wilson continued to make plays. The biggest, though, came when he threw a deep ball to Doug Baldwin, who then did the rest of the work to go 30 yards for the go-ahead touchdown, but again failed to get the two-point conversion. That was key, to say the least.

Even getting the ball back with only 1:34, Cousins and company wasted little time making it happen. He found Brian Quick for 31 yards and then Josh Doctson for 38 yards to get them at 1-yard line immediately with only a minute left on the clock. That’s where Rob Kelley found paydirt again, putting them back ahead, 17-14, after the extra point was converted.

However, the Seahawks got one more shot at things, getting the ball back with 59 seconds remaining. Wilson again made plays, but it was no good after Wilson took a sack. He had to throw a Hail Mary, which just went out of the back of the end zone, giving the visiting Redskins a monster win.

Highlights

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Though it means little at the midway point, this could be a huge game for momentum in the NFC playoff picture.