Seattle Seahawks Defeat Washington Redskins 27-17 on MNF

Monday Night Football can get a little crazy. Last week the New England Patriots, and Tom Brady, were blown out by the Kansas City Chiefs and last night a Seattle Seahawks team that was far superior to it's opponent, the Washington Redskins, stumbled it's way to a 27-17 victory that should never have been that close.

Percy Harvin, of the Seahawks, had 3 touchdown receptions called back due to penalities or the score would have been much higher. The 'Hawks were called for 13 penalties that cost them those 3 touchdowns and 90 yards of offense.

Russell Wilson connected on 18 of 24 pass attempts for 201 yards and touchdown passes to Jermaine Kearse and Marshawn Lynch. Wilson also rushed for 122 yards on 11 carries to join Michael Vick and Terrelle Pryor as the only QBs with multiple 100 yard games in a season in the last 10 years.

Seattle jumped out to an early 17-0 lead on a TD pass from Wilson, a field goal and an 8 yard run by Wilson. By the middle of the second quarter it appeared this game too would become a blowout. At halftime the Redskins had rushed for just 25 yards and passed for 93 yards.

Washington managed to score just before halftime when Kirk Cousins connected on a 60 yard scoring strike to Desean Jackson to narrow the score to 17-7. Jackson became the second player this year, along with Darren Sproles of the Eagles, with multiple 50+ yard scoring plays.

The Redskins pulled to within a touchdown (24-17) of the Seahawks with 3:35 to go in the game on a Cousins to Andre Roberts TD pass that capped an 11 play 80 yard drive for Washington.

Seattle took the ensuing kickoff 55 yards and Steve Hauschka kicked a field goal with :21 left in the game to make the final score 27-17.

Jay Gruden, Washington coach, had this to say about last night's game, "Overall, as a group offensively, our running game's not quite good enough. Obviously our deep passing game's not quite good enough. We're not quite good enough anywhere."

Seattle climbs to 4-1 in the NFL West while the Redskins fall to 1-4 in the NFL East.

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I gave the Redskins a 1 chance in a thousand to beat the Seahawks tonight. It's not that I think Seattle is that much better then the 'Skins. It's just that this Washington team has no direction. Their offense, sans RGIII, is rudderless. Their defense can't perform up to their potential if they spend the amount of time on the field that long drives by Seattle will force them to.

Russell Wilson is a better quarterback than Kurk Cousins. That is non debatable. But Wilson can be forced into mistakes. IF the Redskins can force mistakes early AND take advantage of them the game will be close.

If Seattle engineers long drives and keeps the washington defense on the field this game will be over by the end of the first half.

Terry Blount and John Klein have a very good preview of the game tonight here on ESPN

Check it out.