When this anomaly of a game was finally over, the crowd had filed out of Lumen Field. Sam Darnold was about to do the same—and after offering the platitudes on this particular win counting only if his Seahawks keep going—I wanted to give the quarterback his shot to exult over the classic everyone had just witnessed.
For a million reasons, I intimated to him, Seattle’s 39–38 overtime win had to feel really good, both for the team and for the guy that the team gambled on in March.
