Daily Madden: Something 'Special' About Russell Wilson
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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson rushed for a career-high 122 yards and a touchdown on Monday night, and the Seahawks overcame more than a dozen penalties in a 27-17 victory over the Washington Redskins.
In an outstanding play, Wilson made a third-down 30-yard pass to Marshawn Lynch to save the game with about three minutes left on the clock on a third down at mid-field.
"Anytime you see a quarterback rollout, or bootleg, and then go backwards, disaster usually follows. So I'm watching that and I'm saying something bad is going to happen here. Now with Russell Wilson, it's just the opposite. I mean he's rolling to his left, then he starts to back up and instead of something bad happening, something good happened because then the defense starts to react and then they leave Marshawn Lynch open and he's able to hit him," Madden said.
"But there's something about Russell Wilson that's special; he just took over that game early and put the Redskins on their heels and their defense never did recover—maybe until the second half—but when started those early plays running and those options and stuff and making big plays. Now, the defense, do they worry about him and let everything else go? Or let everything else go and not worry about him? So that was the bind he put their defense in"
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