'Dynamite' Geno Smith leads Seahawks to win over 49ers - ESPN
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Geno Smith crossed the goal line for the game-winning touchdown with 12 seconds left, bounced around behind the end zone in jubilation and then fired the football toward the Levi's Stadium tunnel.
«Pure adrenaline right there,» Smith said. «Pure adrenaline.»
The Seattle Seahawks quarterback was only kidding when he called that his best throw from the team's 20-17 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. But it might have been the most satisfying one he's made in a while given how badly the Seahawks needed the win that Smith helped deliver with his latest crunch-time heroics.
The Seahawks had lost five of their last six games to fall to 4-5 and last place in the highly competitive NFC West. The archrival 49ers had beaten them six straight times in mostly dominant fashion, outscoring Seattle 184-96. Smith was their starter for five of those losses, helping fuel skepticism among observers — and perhaps within the organization — about his viability as their long-term answer at quarterback as he approaches a contract year in 2025.
That helps explain the emotion Smith (25-of-32, 221 yards) showed after he scrambled for a 13-yard touchdown that capped an 11-play, 80-yard drive — and potentially saved Seattle's season.
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«We won the game,» Smith said of what he was feeling in the moment. «We knew how much was at stake. We're trying to turn our season around. We had a bye week and we've got eight games ahead of us to put ourselves in the position that we want to be in, so this is just a step in the right direction