Smith punctuated his game-winning score by heaving the ball into the crowd with a yell, then later he broke out the “Night-night” celebration used by Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry after hitting a big shot to put a game on ice.

“In the Bay, got to do it,” Smith said of the Curry homage.

As for his ability to come through late in the game yet again—this was Smith’s 10th game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime over the past three seasons—Smith said the perspective gained over the course of his career helps him stay calm with the game on the line.

“I just think perspective,” he said. “I was out there smiling on that last drive. I walked on the field, it kind of felt like ‘Angels in the Outfield,’ like somebody was just rubbing my shoulders the whole time. I just felt like there was no pressure. I think the perspective that I have, that I’ve gained over my career has allowed me to play that way. Whenever there is a mistake that’s made, I never really get too down on myself, and also don’t’ get to high when good things happen. As long as you stay even-keeled throughout the process, I think things work out better that way.”

Smith bouncing back from an earlier interception to lead a game-winning drive hardly came as a surprise to his teammates, whether they have played with him for multiple seasons or for just a few weeks.

“His command, young kinds now say aura,” said linebacker Ernest Jones IV, who has also played against Smith several times as member of the Rams. “The way he comes into a huddle, you sense with Geno, at any point he’s going to make a play, he’s going to be where he needs to be for his teammates, and he showed up for us tonight in a big way.”

Said Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who had a team-high 110 yards on 10 catches, four of which came on the winning drive, “Geno never gives up. When we take the field, we feel like we should score. That’s our attitude, that’s our confidence going into the game, and we’re rocking with him.”

“He takes it play by play. One, you can’t get to a big play or a shot play without the first play. So just taking it step by step is something that he preaches and something that our offense believes in and has shown time after time. It’s something that I feel like is built in our offense, when it’s time to score, we need one. We’re just going to take it one play at a time and that’s what we stand on.”

And with Smith leading the way in the final minutes, the Seahawks made those plays, one at a time, to pull off their biggest win of the season, one that has them right in the thick of the NFC West race.

“It means a lot,” Smith-Njigba said of the win. “This is a win we kind of took personal, not winning in six games. At the beginning of the week, I said I felt like it’s a playoff game, so we’ve got to go out here and win, and I felt like our team felt that. We were all on the same page, and it’s a big win for us, for sure. But we’ve got Arizona next week, and we’ve got to be ready for that.”

Added Devon Witherspoon, “It was long overdue. They beat us many times before this without us getting a W, and today we came out and we got a W. So it was long overdue.”