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Bad Memories Finally Pass for Jackson
Seattle wide receiver Darrell Jackson hauls in a third-quarter pass as Redskins safety Sean Taylor closes in for a devastating hit. Jackson held on, and Seattle scored three plays later.
(By Jonathan Newton -- The Washington Post)
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"Just like Kansas City," Hasselbeck later said.
He threw Saturday, remembering to keep the ball mere inches above the ground. Jackson dived. His hands wrapped around the ball, and the officials were saying touchdown once more.
Hasselbeck laughed. Jackson laughed. As the crowd roared so loud the stadium literally shook, the receiver slipped next to his quarterback.
"Just like Kansas City," Hasselbeck said.
But this is what it was like on Saturday, all this history between them spilling out on the field at just the moment the Seahawks needed it most. There was the day in 2002 when Hasselbeck stepped onto the field in Dallas to replace an injured Trent Dilfer and rallied Seattle to a victory. Yet there was also the pass he threw that day to Jackson, who leaped high in the air to grab the pass, then felt the shoulder of the Cowboys Darren Woodson smashing into his back. Jackson collapsed in the locker room that day, thrashed about in the grip of a seizure, and as everyone would later discover, he almost died that day.
What followed was three seasons of dropped passes and missed chances. Jackson was rarely the same.
Still he threw his body into danger, refusing to let Dallas define him. And Saturday, when the Seahawks desperately needed him to be great, he caught a pass and took a blast in his back that appeared to knock him senseless.
But he returned, and there was one last big play the Seahawks needed him to make. He slipped down the side at the Redskins 11-yard line, wide open. Hasselbeck threw, and Jackson caught the pass and looked up just in time to see Washington's Sean Taylor plow into him with a hit as hard as the one Woodson delivered.
He held on.
The old Darrell Jackson had returned just when they needed him most.
