Down 30-23 to the Pittsburgh Steelers with only 2:01 to go and two timeouts remaining, the Seattle Seahawks had an interesting decision to make in terms of the kickoff. A touchback would preserve the two-minute warning as a “free timeout,” whereas an onside kick would have the slimmest chance of a recovery. Across the NFL, only one onside kick has been successfully recovered by the kicking team this season.
Seattle onside kicked, didn’t come close to recovering, and cost themselves the two-minute warning since it was recovered inbounds—a kick out of bounds would’ve been better.