Seattle Times: A week after being the hero, Seahawks QB Trevone Boykin comes up just short

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was unhappy he had to leave everyone guessing.

“You saw, there is magic here, and we should have won that game,” Carroll said after Minnesota beat Seattle 18-11 in a preseason game Thursday night at CenturyLink Field after the Seahawks couldn’t convert on a last-ditch drive that reached the 5-yard-line before a sack of Trevone Boykin helped lead to a hurried pass that fell incomplete as time ran out. “We should have won it. We really messed it up by taking the sack on second down. You always get rid of the football there. We just failed to get that done. We should have had two more shots and scored a touchdown, and you would have found out if we would go for two or not.”

Odds are, the Seahawks would have gone for two again, as they did on Saturday at Kansas City when Boykin’s TD pass to Tanner McEvoy with no time left set up a Troymaine Pope two-point run that won it for the Seahawks, 17-16.

Boykin seemed poised to pull off another seeming miracle when a heave to McEvoy resulted in a 53-yard pass interference penalty on the Vikings that put the ball at the Minnesota 25 with 31 seconds left, and then a pass to Kenny Lawler moved Seattle to the 5.