The Cardinals beat the Seahawks 39-32. The offensive line is struggling and running back Marshawn Lynch has been hurt frequently enough this year to hinder the offense’s ability to move the ball consistently.
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With the playoffs inching closer, a number of high-profile matchups will feature in Week 11 and none may be bigger than the 7-2 Arizona Cardinals playing host to the 8-1 Cincinnati Bengals as both sides angle for postseason position. “It came from my heart”.
And in Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback (MMQB) column for Sports Illustrated, the team’s valuable veteran quarterback talked about virtual reality and how much it’s helped him prepare for games.
Arians’s concepts have commonalities and precedents, but no coach is better at taking base formations and throwing new wrinkles in the pot. Seattle Seahawks still have to play the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Minnesota Vikings, the St. Louis Rams, and the Arizona Cardinals over the next seven contests.
That’s the prevailing sentiment in the locker room as the Cardinals prepare to play the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night in Glendale, Ariz.
“He would say to me, ‘Oh no. I’m all beat up”. Arians said Iupati passed the NFL’s concussion protocols, but is still dealing with neck soreness.
“I’ve got nothing to say about it”.
Whether it was coincidence or something else, the Seahawks’ defense looked like a completely different unit in the third quarter. After he suffered a torn ACL in Cincinnati, the team held on to him for two more years before he forced his way out and landed with the Oakland Raiders. The 25-year-old had worked at tackle in practice in the previous weeks, and Arians said his hands got quicker after halftime. Any given Sunday means that anytime we think we know what to expect, the opposite is just as likely to occur.
Every week this season we run a computer vs. computer simulation of the Bengals’ upcoming game in the Playstation 4 version of Madden National Football League 16, which has a pretty good track record of predicting winners, though, at 2-7, this year’s simulations have a less than stellar record. Last season, Russell Wilson has improved in becoming a key pocket passer to the Seattle Seahawks.
The Seahawks got a 46-yard field goal from Steven Hauschka with 58 seconds left to make it a one-possession game, but Fitzgerald recovered the onside kick and Arizona celebrated. There was a long list of injured players who did not practice Wednesday: Iupati, WR John Brown (hamstring), CB Justin Bethel (illness), G Jonathan Cooper (knee), WR Michael Floyd (hamstring), OLB Markus Golden (ankle), DT Corey Redding (ankle). I think he is a great passer.
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The Cardinals seemed to dominate the Seahawks, choke the lead away, and still put them away with us believing that they could have won by even more. Officials flagged them for 14 penalties for 131 yards on their own field.
