The Seahawks got almost everything they could have dreamed of on a Monday night that will be long remembered and savored in franchise annals.
They saw much-doubted quarterback Geno Smith play a game of poise and precision — nothing too fancy, but a textbook embodiment of the Pete Carroll formula. Smith did just enough to win it and, especially, nothing to lose it.
They got the sweet schadenfreude of watching Russell Wilson, who agitated his way out of Seattle because he didn’t feel the offense let him shine to the full extent, relegated to the bench with the game on the line. Furthermore, Wilson got battered all night by the Seahawks defense, and the Seattle offensive line that Wilson obliquely criticized kept Smith mostly clean.
