Winners And Losers From Seahawks 29 Commanders 26

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Nov 17, 2025, 7:20 PM

winners and losers from seahawks 29 commanders 26

Losers? The only losers were the Commanders and anyone who saw it fit to pick the Commanders to win! If you wanted the Seattle Seahawks to make a big statement on Sunday night, you got it and then some. The Seattle Seahawks smashing up the New Orleans Saints in Week 3 was fun but the Saints are an atrocious team. I know the Washington Commanders are not a very good team, but to go on the road and pummel them when their backs are ostensibly up against the wall in terms of playoff hopes? This was a massive victory out of the bye, and there’s every reason to believe Seattle is a playoff contender.

Let’s get to Winners and Losers after a 38-14 victory that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. His first half was true perfection. No, literally. He was 16/16 for 282 yards and 4 touchdowns. Sam was only 5/8 for 48 yards and an interception after halftime, which is evidence that the decision by Mike Macdonald to bench him for Drew Lock was wholly justified. This was the last chance saloon for the Washington Commanders if they wanted to keep their slim hopes of reaching the playoffs alive.

Not for the first time this season, their Week 9 beatdown by the Seattle Seahawks was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. More injuries — one to Washington's franchise quarterback Jayden Daniels — will generate the headlines. But the simple fact of the matter is that the Commanders were not ready to play. They were sluggish, mistake-ridden, and unable to cope with the Seahawks' firepower on both sides of the football. That's a dangerous mix, and the Commanders are 3-6 for a reason. This is not the same team that took the NFL by storm in 2024.

Everything is different, and it now looks like last season's meteoric rise was an anomaly rather than the start of a profitable new era. General manager Adam Peters has some big decisions to make over the next couple of days before the 2025 trade deadline. After this latest capitulation, don't be surprised if the Commanders look to sell off deadwood in their quest to put themselves in a better position when the offseason arrives. That's for the not-too-distant future. For now, here are two winners and five losers from the Commanders' embarrassing blowout to the Seahawks. Fans are sure to be sleepless in Seattle after the Seahawks' thrilling 29-26 walk-off win over the Washington Commanders.

A game that started off as a defensive battle ended with plenty of fireworks late to light up the chilly November sky. The Seahawks bounced back from their brutal 37-3 loss to Baltimore and managed to keep pace with the San Francisco 49ers, who won earlier on Sunday. The win over Washington keeps both Seattle and San Francisco battling for a share of first place in the NFC West. As is par for the course for the Seahawks, it was hardly a normal path to victory. But in the NFL, the only thing that matters is a win. Style points don't matter.

Here are the top takeaways from Seattle's victory: The last four weeks for Geno Smith have not been stellar. Overall, Seattle's offense has been middling at best - with key exceptions, like the final drive against Cleveland - and all the fingers have been pointed squarely at the quarterback. For the first half against Washington, Smith still appeared to be struggling. If you wanted the Seattle Seahawks to make a big statement on Sunday night, you got it and then some. The Seattle Seahawks smashing up the New Orleans Saints in Week 3 was fun but the Saints are an atrocious team.

I know the Washington Commanders are not a very good team, but to go on the road and pummel them when their backs are ostensibly up against the wall in terms of playoff hopes? This was a massive victory out of the bye, and there’s every reason to believe Seattle is a playoff contender. Let’s get to Winners and Losers after a 38-14 victory that was not nearly as close as the final score indicated. His first half was true perfection. No, literally. He was 16/16 for 282 yards and 4 touchdowns.

Sam was only 5/8 for 48 yards and an interception after halftime, which is evidence that the decision by Mike Macdonald to bench him for Drew Lock was wholly justified. In all seriousness, Darnold was in a zone all night and playing like an elite quarterback. Not a good quarterback. Not a great quarterback. An elite quarterback. Even if he isn’t an elite quarterback every week, the Seahawks can be a Super Bowl caliber team with how he’s performing right now.

The Seattle Seahawks are 6-3 heading into a winnable game in Week 11 against the Los Angeles Rams. Of course, the Rams stomped the Seahawks in Week 1. So, you know, anything can happen. At least Week 10 was a victory for Seattle. The team dominated the Washington Commanders statistically for much of the game but could never separate much where it mattered most: The scoreboard. But after Week 9's meltdown against the Baltimore Ravens, Seattle will take a win any way it can get it.

On the list of winners and losers from Week 10 I don't have kicker Jason Myers. But maybe I should as Myers made all five of his field goals, including the game-winning kick. Since Week 3, Myers has made 17 of his 18 field goal tries. But here are some other winners and losers from Seattle's 29-26 victory over the Commanders. Lots of fans and websites (including ours) have recently had issues with DK Metcalf's attitude toward picking up 15-yard penalties over the past several years. Metcalf has more penalties for unnecessary roughness, taunting, and unsportsmanlike conduct than any player in the NFL since 2020.

That's the bad of DK Metcalf. But the good of Metcalf can far outweigh the bad and he proved that late in Week 10. In the first half, quarterback Geno Smith seemed to want to force the ball to Metcalf. This has been a common occurrence over the last few weeks. I see the point of that, of course, as Metcalf needs the ball in his hands to do any damage. Smith throwing the ball, especially on third downs that might be picked up by targeting a different receiver, to a not-open Metcalf isn't Metcalf's fault; It's Smith's.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 12: Jason Myers #5 of the Seattle Seahawks hugs Michael Dickson #4 of the Seattle Seahawks after Myers' game winning field goal against the Washington Commanders at Lumen Field on... SEATTLE - The Seattle Seahawks desperately needed a bounce back performance to feel good about after last week's massacre on the road against the Baltimore Ravens. While the showing against the Washington Commanders on Sunday wasn't perfect, there were enough positives to come out of Seattle's 29-26 victory to feel as though things have gotten back on the right track. "I felt like just to get a win coming back after last week, felt like we did a lot of uncharacteristic things in that last game, and it was important for us to kind... Smith threw for a career-best 369 yards and two touchdowns, which included authoring his third game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime this season. He also led game-winning drives in Seattle's overtime win over the Detroit Lions in Week 2, and in the closing minute of the fourth quarter against the Cleveland Browns two weeks ago.

"I thought he was almost perfect, all but maybe once perfect," head coach Pete Carroll said of Smith's performance down the stretch. "The throws he had to come up with, the calls, the poise, the cadence, running the club, the whole thing. He was perfect. I thought he was just exactly what we would hope we can see in him." It was a whirlwind win, but a win nevertheless for the Seahawks. The Seattle Seahawks offense was stuck in the mud through the first 2.5 quarters.

Suddenly they kicked it into overdrive and put up 20 points over the final five possessions, and when the offense needed to score to make up for the sudden collapse of the defense, they... A 29-26 win over the Washington Commanders puts them in solid position for at least a wild card berth. It may not feel like it, but the Seahawks are 6-3, and they’ve gone huge stretches without playing particularly good or seemingly well-coached football. But they’re 6-3, which I personally enjoy more than losing a lot. Let’s get to Winners and Losers! There’s almost no rational way to talk about Geno at this point.

We’re in an era where being slightly on either side of average is almost treated the same as being a non-NFL level QB, and there’s more nuance to that. I think we can all generally agree he’s not the QB of the Future (2024 or 2025 and beyond), but the discourse around him has been like we’ve been watching every 1992 Seahawks quarterback... When Smith had to buck up and play better or really risk having his job security questioned, he delivered. Smith was 16/20 for 217 yards, 2 touchdowns, and essentially consecutive game-winning drives. The first one should’ve been a winning TD pass to Tyler Lockett, but the defense switched off and Geno had to do it all over again with just :52 left and two timeouts. He did it.

In some ways, it might be the best drive of his entire Seahawks career because he had to go out and win the game all over again.

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