Inside the Seahawks' Game-Winning TD vs. the Browns

The Seahawks trailed the Browns 20-17 with 44 seconds left and the ball on Cleveland’s 9-yard line. Just two weeks earlier, while trailing 17-13 against the Bengals, Seattle drove inside Cincy’s 10-yard line twice in the final 4 minutes and failed to get into the end zone.

This time would be different.

Pre-snap, Geno Smith did a great job of diagnosing the play. To his left, he saw the safety stacking over the slot corner. This indicated a potential blitz:

The Seahawks had an RPO called. However, if the slot corner blitzed, that would trigger Jaxon Smith-Njigba to adjust his route, as Geno Smith said in his postgame comments: