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SEATTLE (AP) -- Imagine how good Joey Galloway must be at flag
football.
Galloway, Seattle's holdout wide receiver, returned to the NFL
with a splash on Sunday night, making two critical catches in the
second half in the Seahawks' 20-17 victory over the Denver Broncos
on Sunday night.
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"It's been a long week from the standpoint of trying to learn the plays," said Galloway, who spent part of his 100-day holdout playing flag football near his home in Dublin, Ohio. "I didn't come into the game hoping to make tough catches. I just wanted to help the team win."
On the last play of the third quarter, Galloway caught a 39-yard
pass from Jon Kitna before Todd Peterson kicked a 43-yard field
goal in the first minute of the final period.
On Seattle's winning touchdown drive, he made an acrobatic
28-yard reception that set up Kitna's 20-yard scoring pass to Sean Dawkins with 7:10 left.
Galloway, who ended his holdout Tuesday and began working out
with his Seahawks teammates on Wednesday, made four catches for 88
yards as Seattle (7-2) stretched its lead in the AFC West to two
games.
The Seahawks ended a six-game losing streak against the defending two-time Super Bowl champion Broncos (3-7).
Under new coach Mike Holmgren, Seattle won its fourth straight game for the first time in a single season since 1986. Holmgren, also the Seahawks general manager and Galloway's opponent during their long labor stalemate, gave credit to the star receiver.
"He made two great plays and helped us win the game," Holmgren
said.
Said Kitna: "He walked by me five hours before the game and
tells me, 'I'm open. Just get me the ball."'
In his first game since Dec. 27, Galloway made a big 28-yard
reception in front of Dale Carter, giving the Seahawks the ball at the Broncos 20. Two plays later, Kitna passed to Dawkins in front
of the goal-line, beating safety George Coghill for the go-ahead score.
Chris Miller, subbing for the injured Brian Griese and Bubby Brister, led the Broncos back from a 10-0 halftime deficit. He completed 14 passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns in the second
half, but tight end Dwayne Carswell dropped a fourth-down pass with 2:51 left.
On the final play, Ed McCaffrey caught a 42-yard pass to the Seattle 38, but time then ran out.
In the first minute of the fourth quarter, Peterson cut Denver's
lead to 17-13 with his 43-yard field goal. Peterson's second field
goal of the game came after a 39-yard pass to Galloway to the
Denver 18. Broncos coach Mike Shanahan challenged the catch near
the sideline, saying Galloway didn't have control of the ball, but
the play stood after a television replay review.
Carter also was defending on Galloway's 39-yard catch.
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In his previouos game, Seattle's Joey Galloway caught three passes for 33 yards in
Denver in a 27-21 loss before the Broncos went on to win their
second straight Super Bowl.
Three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Sinclair of the Seahawks had a 79-game playing streak ended when he missed the game with a pulled groin suffered last week
against Cincinnati. He had not missed a game since Oct. 30, 1994. Seattle defensive tackle Sam Adams did not play in the second half because of a sore knee. Adams sprained his knee last week. Seahawks
linebacker Darrin Smith missed the second half after sustaining a
pulled groin in the second half.
Eric Brown, Denver's starting
free safety, injured a knee ligament in the first quarter and will
be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks, according to Shahanan.
The Seahawks beat Denver for the first time since 1995.
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"I expected him to go out of bounds," Carter said. "When he
caught it, I looked up on the (scoreboard) screen and I said, 'Wow, he
caught it."'
"We thought that he was juggling it," Shanahan said.
Denver used a 32-yard pass interference penalty against Shawn Springs and a 36-yard pass from Miller to McCaffrey to set up its second touchdown of the third quarter, when the Broncos scored 17 points.
Denver took its first lead at 17-10 on a 1-yard pass from Miller
to Howard Griffith with 50 seconds left in the period. Miller was 9-for-9 for 93 yards in the third.
Earlier in the quarter, the Broncos tied the score at 10 by taking advantage of two turnovers.
After Ahman Green fumbled the second-half kickoff, the Broncos' Anthony Lynn recovered on the Denver 25. Jason Elam kicked a
25-yard field goal after the drive bogged down at the Seattle 7.
Tory James' interception gave Denver the ball on its 40 and the Broncos scored seven plays later on a 23-yard pass to McCaffrey.
The Seahawks led 10-0 at halftime on a 35-yard field goal by
Peterson and a 10-yard touchdown pass from Kitna to Derrick Mayes.
Seattle's Kerry Joseph stepped in front of McCaffrey at the goal line and returned an interception of Miller's pass 29 yards with
1:46 left in the first half.
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