The worst throw in Russell Wilson's career

[NorCalHawk12]

Here's the rule

After a touchdown, the scoring team is allowed a try during one scrimmage down. The ball may be spotted anywhere between the inbounds lines, two or more yards from the goal line. The successful conversion counts one point by kick; two points for a successful conversion by touchdown; or one point for a safety.
The defensive team never can score on a try. As soon as defense gets possession or the kick is blocked or a touchdown is not scored, the try is over.
Any distance penalty for fouls committed by the defense that prevent the try from being attempted can be enforced on the succeeding try or succeeding kickoff. Any foul committed on a successful try will result in a distance penalty being assessed on the ensuing kickoff.
Only the fumbling player can recover and advance a fumble during a try.

How does the trying team score a safety??

 

[Hawkfan77]

Is this real life?

 

[BlueBlood]

Is this real life?

or is it just a fantasy? caught in a land slide no escape from reality...

 

[scutterhawk]

The defense cannot score on a point after or 2-point conversion attempt

So that makes it the best throw of Wilson's career... or one of them at least.

That pass had outstanding touch on it, and that connection of Wilson to Willson was destined to succeed, and what if's have no part in it how the Seahawks played in the last 3 minutes.

 

[Hawks46]

His worst throw ever was the throw to Kearse (or the defense) in the corner of the endzone.

Too many thoughts of LOB balls to Baldwin.

Agreed. I had just said that we needed a TD and a FG didn't help us all that much, but we were in FG range and we at least needed the FG. Then he throws a pick.

INT's are bad enough, but when they take points off the board for you, it's much much worse.

 

[joeseahawks]

Let's keep finding more bad things ... Russell Wilson did on Sunday.
How in the world did he throw a ball that deflected off Kearse hands? Didn't he know that with the wind, the wet ball, the defender's angle ... didn't he know that the ball would ricochet off Kearse and fall into the hands of the defender? Damned even I could have figured it out ... :sarcasm_off:

 

[fiverabbit]

Maybe it's just me...but I think Russell struggles in the rain/wind. Although I do believe he is now 6-0 in the rain, I think the weather affects his handling of the ball (and we know how huge his hands are).
I was at the home game vs Oakland and against that team at home, Russ had 0 tds, a pick and just looked off target. The next home game vs the Giants where the weather was similar, he threw 0 TDs and two picks.
Sunday's game, 4 picks and remember how bad the weather was vs New Orleans in the playoffs last year, Russ had 100 yards no tds, no picks.
I'm confident he'll play noticeably better in Arizona...but that's just an observation.

 

[seedhawk]

Let's keep finding more bad things ... Russell Wilson did on Sunday.
How in the world did he throw a ball that deflected off Kearse hands? Didn't he know that with the wind, the wet ball, the defender's angle ... didn't he know that the ball would ricochet off Kearse and fall into the hands of the defender? Damned even I could have figured it out ... :sarcasm_off:

Darell Bevell!

 

[NorCalHawk12]

Is this real life?

or is it just a fantasy? caught in a land slide no escape from reality...

Freddy?

 

[Bigpumpkin]

His worst throw ever was in Carolina this year to one of our TE's that I can't place. I think it was Helfet.

Not in my opinion...it was in the 1st QTR this past Sunday when he threw it into the ground ten feet in front of him.

 

[DrDix]

Lol....Do you people watch?

Russ running for his life, on his back foot, throws it ACROSS his body all the way on the opposite side of the field, right to Luke. Easily an INSANE throw.

 

[seedhawk]

Lol....Do you people watch?

Russ running for his life, on his back foot, throws it ACROSS his body all the way on the opposite side of the field, right to Luke. Easily an INSANE throw.

Well sure, we know all that. But at the same time, RW also calculated the humidity, prevailing wind, barometric pressure, leftover turbulence from Sea-Tac and the difference the Space Needle makes in flow metrics. He also noticed the flag in the Hawks nest had only 6 ripples. :mrgreen:

 

[Russ Willstrong]

So a crucial 2 pt conversion with no risk is his worse throw? Yeah I know it was a 40 yd lob thrown back across his body on the run as he eludes 2 defenders but the mediots were wrong that the defender could have intercepted. That ball landed on the far side over the defender and into Willson's arms.
Russell Wilson knew idiots who dont know football would crap their pants so he hung it in the wind extra long for y' all. It was calculated but not a risky decision..

 

[jkitsune]

I stand corrected! Thanks for letting me know. I watched the game with several friends, including a couple of high school football coaches, and they all agreed with me about how devastating a safety would have been if it was returned.

I'll be quiet now

To be fair, I had this thought too, because I'd seen it happen sometime in the past (turns out it was a college game).

Apparently, if Russell Wilson had run 99 yards backwards and out the back of our own endzone, the defensive team would've gotten 1 point.

 

[brimsalabim]

Russ got absolutely planted on that play too.

 

[Russ Willstrong]

Haha ClintnDix was helping on Kearse who had his man beat going to the far corner of the endzone. He had time to come off and defend Luke but the ball flew further than Dix anticipated. The color commentator says "It's up for grabs" but the lofted ball falls nicely into the reach of Willson over Dix.

 

[hawknation2015]

If he doesn't complete that pass, we were likely to lose. It was absolutely worth the risk, even under college rules.

Thank God Luke Willson caught it.

 

[jkitsune]

I'm sorry, I feel like nobody saw what I said. I'm really excited about this new rule I've discovered, so I'm going to repeat it for full effect:

"if Russell Wilson had run 99 yards backwards and out the back of our own endzone, the defensive team would've gotten 1 point."

This is in the rules according to what I just read. It has never happened. But THEORETICALLY, a team could therefore finish an NFL game with a SINGLE point, if the above happened after one team's touchdown.

This shatters my paradigms. ALL THE PARADIGMS. All of them are SHATTERED.

 

[Torc]

I'm sorry, I feel like nobody saw what I said. I'm really excited about this new rule I've discovered, so I'm going to repeat it for full effect:

"if Russell Wilson had run 99 yards backwards and out the back of our own endzone, the defensive team would've gotten 1 point."

This is in the rules according to what I just read. It has never happened. But THEORETICALLY, a team could therefore finish an NFL game with a SINGLE point, if the above happened after one team's touchdown.

This shatters my paradigms. ALL THE PARADIGMS. All of them are SHATTERED.

You missed the next sentence.

The successful conversion counts one point by kick; two points for a successful conversion by touchdown; or one point for a safety. The defensive team never can score on a try.

I'm trying to figure out how the offensive team could score a safety.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

You missed the next sentence.

The successful conversion counts one point by kick; two points for a successful conversion by touchdown; or one point for a safety. The defensive team never can score on a try.

I'm trying to figure out how the offensive team could score a safety.

Maybe if the defense were to gain possession in the field of play and the return to or fumble into and out of the end zone? But then it's just 1 point instead of 2? Talk about some shit that's never happened. Interesting though for sure.