The Seattle Seahawks , coming off a last-second loss a week ago, traveled across the country to face the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon. Both of these teams are off to a hot start and have playoff aspirations, and while they’re in different conferences, today’s game will have big playoff implications down the line.
With a win, the Jags would move to 5-1. Teams that start 5-1 make the playoffs over 90 percent of the time, so they’d all but lock themselves into at least a Wild Card spot. On the other hand, the Seahawks would much, much rather be sitting at 4-2 than 3-3. They’re too good to be at .500 through six weeks, so a win on Sunday would be big.
The Jags took an early lead, but the Seahawks responded with 20 unanswered points in the second and third quarters to ta