On a night when the Seahawks pushed revealing their starting quarterback to the brink, Drew Lock came back from one to shock the Eagles.
Having never held a lead and trailing Philadelphia, 17-13, with 1:52 remaining, Lock ran a flawless two-minute drive, throwing on every snap of a 10-play march that went 92 yards for the game-winning score.
"Amazing won't do it justice," Lock told ESPN's Lisa Salters directly after the game about orchestrating the drive. "But amazing also doesn't do justice what the O-line, what DK (Metcalf) did on that catch, what the receivers did, what Ken Walker, Zach Charbonnet, all game long. The tight ends. It takes a special group to rally around a guy that's coming into his second game of the year, right? Used to the same thing all year long. Same cadence. Same spin on the ball. Everything. A team like that -- not just the offense -- the defense to rally around me tonight. That was amazing."
More amazing still is the flip Lock switched after a somewhat dim performance for the previous 58 minutes. Going into that narrative-turning drive, Lock was accurate, with a 73.9 completion percentage, but it had resulted in just 116 passing yards, and running back Kenneth Walker turning potential losses into big gains had been Seattle's best hope for production.
And before that, it wasn't even clear Lock would have a second chance to score his first win in three years at all.
Geno Smith, who missed last week with a groin injury, was still ailing, but the team surprisingly declared him healthy enough to dress.
The question over whether the season-long QB1 would serve as Seattle's Week 15 QB1 -- rather than an emergency option -- lingered until roughly 15 minutes before kickoff.
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