The Seattle Seahawks are celebrating an unprecedented away comeback against Aaron Rodgers

The Seattle Seahawks are celebrating an unprecedented away comeback against Aaron Rodgers

The Seattle Seahawks were 14-0 on the road at the end of the first quarter and 21-7 in the second quarter against Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets. Historically, a 14-point lead at home is an automatic win for Rodgers.

No longer.

CBS Sports researcher Doug Clawson noted after the Seahawks’ 26-21 comeback win that this was the first time Aaron Rodgers had lost such a big lead at home.

The “true home” qualifier involves noting that the New York Giants were down 14 points before beating the Green Bay Packers in London. This was a designated home game for Green Bay, but any sensible person knows that it is effectively a neutral site.

Rodgers’ offense was shut down in the final three quarters of the game, and New York’s only remaining points came on Kene Nwangwu’s 99-yard kick return touchdown. Aaron actually threw a touchdown pass in the second quarter…to Leonard Williams. It was the first red zone pick-6 of Rodgers’ illustrious career, in which he generally had few interceptions.

Yes, Rodgers is pretty much a spent force, but a road comeback is a road comeback and rallies by such large margins aren’t particularly common. For the Seahawks, this is their first comeback by at least 14 points since defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2019. It is also the largest comeback of the Geno Smith era and it is Geno’s first comeback by more than 10 points as a starter the Seahawks. The only double-digit comeback since Russell Wilson was Drew Lock, who led Seattle from a 10-0 deficit to a famous 20-17 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football.

While this is the Rodgers’ largest comeback win for a road opponent, this is neither the Seahawks’ first nor the largest comeback from a double-digit deficit. Do you want great statistics? Please:

With the Jets sitting at 3-9 and mathematically eliminated from the playoffs as early as next week, there is a non-zero chance that the Seahawks have officially ended Aaron Rodgers’ disastrous tenure in New York.

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