The Seattle Seahawks clinched a play-off spot as they snatched a 38-37 overtime victory over NFC West title rivals the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n
Sam Darnold’s touchdown pass to Jaxon Smith-Njigba came in response to a Rams score early in the extra period and the quarterback found Eric Saubert for a two-yard conversion to claim victory.<\/p>\n
Matthew Stafford, who threw for 457 yards and three touchdowns, found Puka Nacua for a 41-yard score in overtime.<\/p>\n
Stafford\u2019s earlier touchdown pass to Nacua had given the Rams a 30-14 lead early in the fourth quarter, but Rashid Shaheed returned a punt 42 yards and Darnold found AJ Barner from 26 yards two minutes later as the Seahawks levelled with a pair of two-point conversions.<\/p>\n
The second conversion was initially ruled out as Darnold\u2019s pass bounced off a Rams player\u2019s helmet into the end zone, but a video review ruled his pass was backwards and play was allowed to continue to the point where the Seahawks Zach Charbonnet picked it up for the score.<\/p>\n
The win lifts the Seahawks to 12-3 and above the Rams (11-4) at the top of the division and as top seed in the NFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Seahawks clinched a play-off spot as they snatched a 38-37 overtime victory over NFC West title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-199852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}