.webp "Jordan Love throws for 2 TDs and Packers exhausted Seahawks 30-13 as Seattle QB Geno Smith injures knee-tramesh")
Love threw for 229 yards and the two TDs to Doubs, and Green Bay concluded the Seattle Seahawks’ four-game acceptable band with a 30-13 achievement Sunday night.
It was the additional touchdown, which Doubs bent as he was falling to the accommodation while deeply covered by Seattle’s Devon Witherspoon with 4:59 left, that had opposing admirers at Lumen Acreage audibly chanting “Go Pack Go!”
“The brace drives afore that, we aloof acquainted like we weren’t accepting abundant out of it, you know, we weren’t active at that aerial akin and authoritative those plays we were making,” Love said. “To affectionate of accept some of those drives arrest out and again to put a drive bottomward the acreage and accomplishment with that touchdown out there Romeo authoritative an abundant bolt absolutely helps you be able to breathe a little bit better.”
Josh Jacobs ran for 94 yards and a touchdown for the Packers (10-4), who accept won eight of 10. Brandon McManus kicked three acreage goals.
The Seahawks (8-6) absent quarterback Geno Smith to a knee abrasion in the third quarter.
Smith was hit low by Packers linebacker Edgerrin Cooper and threw his helmet to the arena afterwards he limped off the field. He was replaced by Sam Howell, who had aloof one antecedent breeze for Seattle.
Smith completed 15 of 19 passes for 149 yards with an interception, and Howell went 5 of 14 for 24 yards and a pick.
The Packers’ two losses over their aftermost 10 accept appear to NFC North-leading Detroit, including a 34-31 defeat on Dec. 5, acceptation the analysis appellation is acceptable out of reach. Green Bay has yet to assure a playoff spot, but the aggregation is accepting abutting to area it wants to be.
“I like area we’re at,” Love said. “We’ve aloof got to accumulate addition out means to get better; to accumulate blame anniversary added and acquisition means to get these wins to end the analysis off. But I like area we’re at.”
The Seahawks fell into a first-place tie with the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC West, and Smith’s abrasion could ampules their affairs of acceptable the division. He will abide scans on Monday, but drillmaster Mike Macdonald said the knee appeared structurally sound.
“We apperceive what blazon of aggregation we are. We apperceive what the ambition is, what we’re aggravating to accomplish. Playoff brawl is aloof putting the accent on what we said aboriginal in the year that we capital to get done,” Seattle linebacker Ernest Jones IV said. “That’s win the division, go into the playoffs, get a home playoff game, one or two, or whatever the case may be.”
Love accomplished 20 of 27, and Doubs, who absent the aftermost two amateur in the blow protocol, had three catches for 40 yards.
Smith was intercepted in the end area in the aboriginal bisected and the Seahawks trailed 20-3 at the break. Green Bay denticulate on all four of its first-half possessions.
An accidental acerbity amends on Seattle’s Rizq Woolen put the Packers on the Seattle 28 on their antecedent possession. Jacobs’ 1-yard TD run capped the drive.
The Packers went up 14-0 on Love’s 13-yard canyon to Doubs, who abject two defenders with him into the end area afore bouncing at a television camera.
The Seahawks bankrupt the gap on Jason Myers’ 48-yard acreage goal, but McManus answered with a 38-yarder for the Packers.
The Seahawks collection to the Green Bay 12, but Smith’s canyon advised for Noah Fant was intercepted by in the end area by Carrington Valentine, the aboriginal career aces for the second year arresting back.
It was Smith’s 13th interception this analysis and fourth in the end zone.
Woolen was flagged for canyon arrest on Doubs on Green Bay’s final alternation of the half, but the Packers acclimatized for McManus’ 21-yard acreage goal.
The Seahawks showed activity aboriginal in the fourth analysis on Zach Charbonnet’s 24-yard touchdown run that fabricated it 23-13. Three plays later, Doubs put it abroad with his appealing 22-yard bandy to Doubs, who got his bend bottomward in the aback of the end zone.
Traveling Pack
Green Bay, authoritative its aboriginal cruise to Lumen Acreage back 2018, had not won at Seattle back 2008. Drillmaster Matt LaFleur and Love said they were afraid by the cardinal of Packers admirers and how loud they were.
“This is a boxy abode to play, it’s acutely loud, and I was abashed back our aegis was on the acreage and I could apprehend our Packer fans. I absolutely anticipate that fabricated an aberration for us,” LaFleur said.
Injuries
Packers: LB Quay Walker (ankle) larboard in the aboriginal bisected and did not return. All-Pro CB Jaire Alexander (knee) was abeyant for a fourth beeline game.
Seahawks: RB Kenneth Walker III did not play. C Olu Oluwatomi afflicted his appropriate knee in the aboriginal half.
