Just 7 days prior, the Seattle Seahawks looked, frankly, cooked, melting down in a 35-38 W5 loss to the Bucs. Yet here we were, watching a banged-up secondary, missing Riq Woolen, Julian Love, Devon Witherspoon, and Derick Hall, throttle an ascending Jacksonville Jaguars squad.

The team had seemingly entered a strange new world overnight, a 20-12 victory secured despite the odds. The hinge point, oddly enough, wasn’t a sack or a third-down stop, but a quiet moment of offensive efficiency. On the drive where Cooper Kupp snagged his first TD of the year, QB Sam Darnold seemed less concerned with the spectacular and more with simple, agonizing competence.

Darnold, who had tossed a combined 6 INTs in his prior 2 starts in Jacksonville , spoke about the play. “They showed an

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