The Seahawks’ 12-game run is over, and the team that finally ended it was not the one many would have circled before kickoff. The Commanders, playing without Jayden Daniels and leaning on Marcus Mariota, handed Seattle its first loss since Nov. 26, 2025, and did it by squeezing every last bit out of the mistakes in front of them.
Turnovers told the story from the start. Washington won that battle 3-0, but the bigger edge came in how quickly it turned those takeaways into points.
After forcing a fumble on Seattle’s second drive, the Commanders needed just four plays to score. Later, after Sam Darnold was picked off by Sonny Styles, Mariota hit Terry McLaurin for a 30-yard touchdown.
Then came the knockout: second-year linebacker Kain Medrano intercepted Darnold in the fourth quarter and took it back for six to make it a two-score game.
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Seattle’s offense never found the balance it needed. With Super Bowl LX MVP Kenneth Walker III out and Zach Charbonnet also unavailable because of injury, the Seahawks’ ground game stalled badly.
Jadarian Price, George Holani and Emanuel Wilson combined to average 2.3 yards per carry. Darnold did his part through the air, throwing for 379 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions, but the Seahawks were too often forced into obvious passing situations because the run game couldn’t keep them on schedule.
Mariota, meanwhile, was sharp enough to make the most of the opportunities Washington created. He finished 19-of-31 for 183 yards and three touchdowns, and his best snap may have come when he kept the ball on a quarterback keeper on third-and-7 and ran for a first down to seal the Commanders’ first win of the season. Before Week 3, every quarterback Seattle had faced since Week 1 of the 2025 season had combined for a passer rating of 77.8, per Doug Farrar, but Mariota was efficient and steady when Washington needed it most.
The same kind of late-game execution showed up in Rio de Janeiro, where the Ravens and Cowboys delivered a finish that will stick with Dallas for a while. After the Cowboys tied it with a field goal, Baltimore chose not to settle for overtime.
Lamar Jackson found Zay Flowers for 27 yards down the middle, the Ravens used a timeout, and Tyler Loop drilled a 56-yard field goal to win it 34-31. The whole sequence took seven seconds, a number that will haunt the Cowboys the way “13 seconds” still does for Buffalo.
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Elsewhere, the Bengals’ late-game problems surfaced again. Under Zac Taylor, Cincinnati is now 6-50 when trailing after the third quarter, according to On SI’s Jay Morrison.
Joe Burrow has been trapped in that same pattern too often; per Scott Kacsmar, he is 1-34 when his team trails in the final eight minutes of an NFL game. Against the Steelers, that weakness showed up once more when Pittsburgh strip-sacked Burrow as he tried to engineer a game-winning drive, then recovered the fumble to finish off a 30-27 win.
The Raiders-Saints matchup turned into a tight end showcase. Brock Bowers, Michael Mayer, Juwan Johnson and Noah Fant all scored, giving the game four tight end touchdowns. Bowers, back from injury, was the standout, catching 10 passes for 116 yards and a touchdown as the Raiders moved to 3-0.
Justin Herbert’s deep ball remains a work in progress. He has attempted 12 passes of 20 or more yards downfield this season, but he has completed only two for 52 yards with three interceptions and a 5.6 passer rating on those throws, per NFL researcher. For all the buzz around what his arm strength could unlock in Mike McDaniel’s offense, those shots still haven’t come together.
And in San Francisco, Deebo Samuel pulled off a statistical oddity in the 49ers’ 36-30 win over the Cardinals. He finished with 80 receiving yards and no receptions, with all of those yards coming on a hook-and-lateral play that went for a touchdown. Per NFL researcher, that’s the most receiving yards in a game without a reception.
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