SEATTLE — In the end, the Seattle Seahawks got the last laugh.
There is no love lost between the Seahawks and the rival Los Angeles Rams. They spent nearly all of Thursday’s Week 16 rematch at Lumen Field barking at each other before, during and after plays. Rams edge rusher Jared Verse said this week he doesn’t like the Seahawks. The feeling is mutual in Seattle.
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So, when the visitors led by two scores in the fourth quarter, they puffed their chests out and, according to the Seahawks, started taunting their opponent.
“Laughing,” Seattle linebacker Ernest Jones IV said. “Crazy. They thought it was over with.”
It wasn’t. A team that has chosen “Mission Over Bulls—” as its mantra for the season knew that as long as the clock was ticking, there was a chance. The mission, not only for the evening but for the season, was still within reach.
“It’s disrespectful to the game,” said Jones, whom the Rams traded away in August 2024. “It’s too much time left on the clock for you to be thinking it’s over.” Jones declined to say who, specifically, was doing the taunting.
“But they know,” he said. “And we won.”
When the clock finally stopped ticking, the scoreboard read: Seahawks 38, Rams 37.
The significance of those numbers cannot be overstated.
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