SEATTLE — Josh Jacobs It’s unlikely he’ll play on Sunday until about two hours before the game starts. The Las Vegas raid‘ fourth year running back had to test his left calf, which he adjusted during a non-contact exercise on Friday’s training session.
And after he exacerbated that at the end of the Lumen Field regulation – “That didn’t work,” he said – the Raiders coaching staff wanted him on the bench for the rest of the game. back of the match.
“I convinced them I could go,” Jacobs said. “And, you know, the biggest hit of the game happened then.”
Jacobs dashed through a large hole to the right of the line and disappeared, unaffected, in an 86-yard touchdown run with 4 minutes and 20 seconds to play in extra time to give the Raiders an edge. Win overtime 40-34 against Seattle Seahawks football team.
As such, Jacobs finished with a franchise game record for all-purpose yard (303) and laos (229). He also became only the fourth player in the Super Bowl era to finish with at least 300 versatile yards and two touchdowns in a game, along with Stephone Paige (1985), Priest Holmes (2002) and Adrian Peterson (2007).
“That mentality [Jacobs] that brings and that mindset, the way he runs and the way he repeats to the finish line, running through everyone, he always gets to the finish line forward,” said the Raiders midfielder. Derek Carrwho celebrated his 13th career win on Sunday, the third most of any starting midfielder since 1950, behind only Drew Brees (21) and Ben Roethlisberger (14).
“He carries that mindset, man, how hard he worked, all of that, I said earlier in the year… the happiest person in the building, besides me, is Josh Jacobs. And we’re seeing the fruits of that now.”
Jacobs, a Raiders first-round draft pick out of Alabama in 2019, did not have his fifth-year pick picked by the new Las Vegas general manager regime Dave Ziegler and coach Josh McDaniels. And Jacobs, the 2020 professional bowler, is having his best season yet.
With six games remaining in these five contracts, he’s reached 1,159 javelins, the fifth-highest total in franchise history, behind Marcus Allen (1,759 in 1985), Napoleon Kaufman (1,294 in 1997), Mark van Eeghen (1,273 in 1977) and Allen (1,168 in 1984).
And with his third season at 1,000 yards, Jacobs has beaten Allen and van Eeghen in most such seasons in Raiders history.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said some of the Jacobs products are the result of all the attention Seattle has given to Raiders All-Pro receivers. Davante Adamswho has shed a tear with 413 ball receptions and 5 touches in the past 3 games but finished with 7 catches from 74 yards in Seattle.
“We didn’t settle [Jacobs] as well as we needed to,” Carroll said, “and we didn’t plan as well as we needed to.”
McDaniels, meanwhile, said he’s “run out of superlatives” to describe his running back.
“He’s a football player,” McDaniels said. “I mean, that’s probably the greatest compliment I can give him, and he’s gone great.
“It’s not just what he does on the pitch, it’s how he trains, what he prepares for, how attentive he is in meetings, how he is on walks. play, how much he wants to win. He wants to win. He does everything he can to help us.”
As for the Raiders, the team improved to 4-7 with their first win in Seattle since 1998, their second consecutive Round win in the first leg. They are only the third team to achieve that feat since the NFL founded OT in 1974, along with 2017 Green Bay Packers and 2001 Chicago bear.
In Sunday’s extra time, the Raiders had the ball first and tried to hit a goal at 56 yards, right. The Seahawks then tripled and lost and played tit-for-tat, setting up Jacobs’ run from the Raiders’ 14-yard line on the first go-down. Three more days until the 35th anniversary of Bo Jackson’s tour at the old Seattle Kingdome, when his 221-yard sprint day included a 91-yard TD run into the tunnel.
“I noticed half of the defense was looking at Mack [Hollins] because he didn’t know what he was doing in the play, when he got in line,” Jacobs laughed at the mention of the Raiders receiver.’He was like, ‘What’s the play?’ I said, ‘Line up!’
“When I touch the void, I see [fullback Jakob Johnson] there’s a big block and I just see a big hole, and I just try to run as fast as I can.”
Telling the knock on him he had no breakaway pace, Jacobs paused.
“It’s all about the angle,” he said softly before laughing. “It’s all about the angle.”
A week earlier, Jacobs had giggled as he told a reporter how refreshed he was, the best his body felt at the end of the season of his career.
“No bruises, no bruises,” he said at the time. “Freak.”
In Seattle, as he limped around the dressing room, he smiled again.
“I cursed it,” he said as he tapped his little wooden hole.
“It’s just a small wound. Nothing crazy. I don’t think anything can stand in my way, but it’s something I definitely have to take care of.”
ESPN’s Brady Henderson contributed to this report.
