EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Had one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NFL history — Aaron Rodgers — been able to hit a wide-open Garrett Wilson in the end zone midway through the second quarter, this game might have been over almost before it started.
Instead, Rodgers’ misfire helped set the stage for one of the more amazing Seattle Seahawks comebacks in team history. The Seahawks rallied from deficits of 14-0 and 21-7 in the first half — each largely the result of their own special-teams miscues — to beat the New York Jets 26-21 at MetLife Stadium. They are 7-5 on the season, winning three in a row, and in sole possession of first place in the NFC West thanks to Arizona’s 23-22 loss to Minnesota.
The Seahawks are 7-0 on the field where they won their only Super Bowl in 2014. The Seahawks got the winning score on an 8-yard run by Zach Charbonnet with 5:31 left, then held off one final Jets drive that got to the 29. Four plays from there got nothing, typifying a day when the Seahawks defense was the one consistent unit on either side of the field, holding New York to just 258 yards and 4.
2 per play. The Seahawks would have been up against it had Rodgers connected with Wilson in the second quarter. The play, which snapped from the Seattle 9-yard-line, could have put the Jets up by 21 against a bumbling, stumbling, fumbling Seahawks team that would have had to pull off the largest comeback in team history to win.
Instead, Rodgers’ pass was a little too far and a d.
