Seahawks kicker didn’t want to kick field goal, resulted in touchdown
By Mike Dyce
The Seattle Seahawks made a bold decision to go for it on fourth-and-7 about 35 yards away from the end zone. They were trailing by four points early in the fourth quarter and a field goal would’ve still had them behind by one point. They lined up to take a field goal anyways, but then Pete Carroll called a time out and they went for it instead.
The result was a 35-yard touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse to take the lead. That all could’ve happened because Seahawks kicker Steven Hauschka didn’t want to kick the field goal.
From Newsday:
"“I didn’t really want to kick it, to tell you the truth,” Hauschka told Newsday after the game. “It was into the wind . . . I didn’t think it was the right decision and I let coach Carroll know that.”Hauschka said he’d never before passed up an opportunity to attempt a field goal.“You have to be honest with yourself,” he said. “It was the wind at that moment. Sometimes you can make that, but I felt the wind at that moment was into the face enough to not want to try that kick. I grabbed him on the sideline as I ran out because I could see the flags [on top of the uprights] and I told him: ‘We shouldn’t kick this.'”"
Here is the resulting scoring play: