FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A rematch of one Super Bowl looked like it suddenly could be a preview of another.
The Seahawks answered emphatically any questions about just where it stands among the NFL’s elite, beating the Patriots 31-24 in as dramatic a game as can be had in the regular season.
Seattle stopped the Patriots on four plays from inside the 2-yard line with less than a minute left, with a final pass from Tom Brady to Rob Gronkowski going incomplete on fourth down.
The game featured seven lead changes to that point, but it was the Seahawks getting the most important lead, the last one, by scoring the last nine points of the game to improve to 6-2-1 and sending the Patriots to 7-2.