Seahawks wisely used late timeout to set up game

The revised kickoff rules create one very important reality in late-game situations.

It doesn’t take much time for a team to get in position for a game-winning field goal.

That played to Seattle’s benefit on Thursday night. The Seahawks wisely took a timeout after Arizona’s running play on first and goal from the seven. It stopped the clock with 33 ticks. When the Cardinals scored on the next play and opted to tie the game with a single PAT, the Seahawks had 28 seconds to get kicker Jason Myers in position for a shot at redemption.

The Cardinals had an important decision to make on the kickoff. Bang it out of the end zone and surrender the 35? Kick an easily returnable ball and hope the coverage team gets the job done short of the 35?

Arizona went for option C: A line drive that would