4 ways the Seahawks’ 41-38 win over the Texans was the most bananas game

The Seattle Seahawks improved to 5-2 with a hard fought victory at home over the Houston Texans in Week 8, and the 41-38 win had to be seen to be believed.

It featured highlight after highlight with both teams swinging for the fences on every drive. At the end of the game, rookie Deshaun Watson was the first player in NFL history with at least 400 passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and 50 rushing yards in a game. And he did it against the vaunted Seattle defense.

But when the Texans went conservative with less than two minutes to play and didn’t get a first down, it gave Russell Wilson another chance to lead the Seahawks to victory and he pulled it off with a three-play, 80-yard drive that sealed the win.

Here are four reasons why the game on Sunday was about as ridiculous as football gets:

Both the Texans and Seahawks entered Sunday with top-10 pass defenses. But both gave up more than 400 yards to the opposing quarterback.

Wilson finished with the most at 452 yards, including the 80 he tacked on in a 78-second drive that gave the Seahawks the win. But Watson was up to the test too with 402 yards.

Both quarterbacks had four touchdowns and two each in the fourth quarter. Prior to Sunday, the Seahawks defense hadn’t given up a fourth quarter touchdown all season. But Watson got his first with an impressive escape from the Seahawks pass rush and a second touchdown when DeAndre Hopkins weaved through the defense for a 72-yard burst.

Ultimately though, it didn’t matter because Wilson found Jimmy Graham with 21 seconds left to win the game.

The aerial battle between the two quarterbacks alone made the game extremely fun to watch.

If the passing battle between the two quarterbacks wasn’t fun enough, the fact that neither could be corralled was a bonus.

Watson finished with 67 rushing yards, 13 more than Lamar Miller. And Wilson had 30 rushing yards, while the rest of the team combined for 3 yards on 17 carries.

There were a lot of excellent plays at CenturyLink Field on Sunday, but Watson and Wilson were the unequivocal stars who made it fun.

Watson’s four-touchdown performance led the Texans to 38 points, so it’s tough to be too hard on him for three interceptions. But the Seahawks secondary duped him twice into throwing picks, including one early that was returned by Earl Thomas 78 yards for a touchdown.

Both Thomas and Richard Sherman baited Watson into throwing picks, and Sherman iced the game with his second interception of the game in the final seconds.

But Wilson had a bad interception of his own late in the fourth quarter that looked like it was going to give Houston the win. The Texans defense was also helped by a great showing from Jadeveon Clowney, who was unblockable most of the game for the Seattle offensive line.

The score may look like something straight out of #Pac12AfterDark, but the typically strong Texans and Seahawks defenses still did enough to make things really interesting.

Ok, I know I already talked about Wilson and his game-winning drive, but LET’S TALK ABOUT WILSON AND HIS GAME-WINNING DRIVE.

After picking Wilson off on the last drive, all the Texans had to do was stop the Seahawks from going from their own 20-yard line to the end zone in 99 seconds. That attempt went like this:

The drive didn’t feature any timeouts and even included a false start penalty that ticked off 10 seconds with a runoff and the Seahawks still had 21 seconds to spare.

What a damn game.