Final score: Seahawks 31, Bills 25
Bills vs. Seahawks live scores, highlights, and updates from ‘Monday Night Football’
Buffalo almost came away with a huge road win in Seattle, but the Seahawks hung on with a big stop in the final minute.
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Third quarter: Seahawks 28, Bills 17
Halftime: Seahawks 28, Bills 17
First quarter: Bills 14, Seahawks 7
Bills/Seahawks highlights
Richard Sherman talked some smack with Rex Ryan after an interception. He wasn’t done, either, as he completely leveled a Bills receiver — legally — on the final play of the game.
The Bills tried to kick a field goal before the half, then things got weird. The referees’ mistakes ended up costing Buffalo.
Tyvis Powell threw a monster block that knocked out two Bills at once.
Jimmy Graham made a vintage play to grab a one-handed touchdown while wrapped up with a defender, then DID IT AGAIN later in the first half.
Buffalo got off to an ideal start Monday thanks to a blocked punt.
Injuries
Bills center Eric Wood left the game with a lower body injury. Rex Ryan confirmed after the game that Wood broke his leg.
Before the game
The Seattle Seahawks need a Monday Night Football victory to shake off some recent struggles. Ditto for the Buffalo Bills.
The two teams come into a transcontinental showdown winless in their last two games and looking for a way to stop the bleeding. For the Seahawks, a victory keeps them healthily in control of the NFC West. For the Bills, an upset win would keep their heads above the .500 mark and keep Rex Ryan from landing back on the hot seat.
Seattle is 0-1-1 since Week 7, owing the tie to one of the worst special teams performances of the modern era and the loss to what Richard Sherman believes is an NFL-wide conspiracy against the Seahawks. That has helped slow what looked to be a preordained rise to the NFC West crown, but the team is still in strong position to win its division thanks to stumbles from the Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams this season.
Buffalo has already conceded the AFC East to the New England Patriots. The path to a wild card berth runs through Washington state. A red-hot AFC West means they’ll be staring up the playoff seedings at Kansas City and either Oakland or Denver on Monday. The Bills will need a win to keep hope alive.
That will be a difficult task, especially if Tyrod Taylor can’t pull himself out of his recent spiral. He’s completed just 50 percent of his passes in Buffalo’s two most recent losses and is throwing for just 6.1 yards per pass in that span. Extrapolated over a full season, those numbers would make him the 30th-best starting quarterback in a league with 32 candidates.
It’s a far cry from the 3,000-yard, 20-touchdown campaign he sprang on upstate New York in 2015. Taylor’s quarterback rating has dropped from 99.4 to 87.2 this fall as the Bills’ passing offense has taken a backseat to a potent running game. They’ll have to hope Taylor can get back on his horse on Monday if LeSean McCoy can’t perform at 100 percent of his abilities.
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