For Peete’s Sake, Look Who Wins : Interconference: Despite all the recent turmoil, Lions roar past Seahawks, 30-10.

The Detroit Lions took out two weeks of turmoil on Seattle, snapping the Seahawks’ three-game winning streak Sunday.

Rodney Peete, who came out on top of the Lions’ quarterback controversy, passed for two touchdowns, and Mel Gray returned a kickoff 95 yards for another score as the Lions won, 30-10.

“All the talk among the guys before this game was to block out the negative and put the turmoil behind us,” Peete said. “I think that’s what we did today.”

It was the first time Seattle (3-3) had given up more than 20 points since giving up 24 to Kansas City on Nov. 22, 1992. Both teams were coming off bye weeks, and the Seahawks are now 0-4 following byes since the NFL started the time off in 1990.

“We just got whipped in every phase of the game,” Seattle Coach Tom Flores said. “We should have played better than that, but we didn’t. Give Detroit credit. They played with a lot of spirit and enthusiasm.”

The Lions (4-2), who are alone atop the NFC Central, kept things interesting during the time off. Consider:

--Agents for Barry Sanders insisted the NFL’s leading rusher will be a free agent at the end of the season.

--An ankle injury in practice put cornerback Kevin Scott on the sideline.

--Veteran offensive tackle Lomas Brown claimed Coach Wayne Fontes’ credibility was at stake for the way he flip-flopped on his quarterback choice among Peete, Andre Ware and Erik Kramer.

“I can’t deny things were happening,” Fontes said. “But these guys played over all of it. That shows one thing: character. This team has a lot of character.”

Peete, who completed 14 of 26 passes for 157 yards with one interception, tossed touchdown passes of 13 and 11 yards to Herman Moore, and Jason Hanson kicked field goals of 34, 32 and 35 yards for Detroit.

Rookie Rick Mirer completed 23 of 39 passes for 189 yards with three interceptions for Seattle. He threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Kelvin Martin on the third play of the game, but it was all Detroit after that.

Martin’s touchdown was set up when Gray fumbled the opening kickoff at the Detroit three after being hit by Michael Bates.

Yet the Lions were undaunted.

“On the sidelines, after that opening fumble, there wasn’t one head down,” Fontes said. “Not one. Every man on that sideline believed we could still win this game. A couple of years ago, that play might have folded this team.”

For the Lions, it was the franchise’s 800th game since the Portsmouth Spartans moved north from Ohio to the Motor City in 1934. Their record is 375-400-25.