Bruce Arians’ team is also looking for its 10th straight win when they attempt to sweep the season series from the Seahawks. The game ended up being meaningless for the standings, but it could still matter for a squad hoping to contend for a Super Bowl. If you polled players on NFC playoff teams, I’ll bet they’d rather face the 15-1 Panthers, the 13-3 Cardinals or the 11-5 Vikings before they’d want any part of the Seahawks. That much we know. Yeah, that’s down the road, but I think this win was every bit that significant. And it was just going to get worse for Arizona. “We’ll get plenty of rest”.
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If Minnesota beats Green Bay, the Packers as the No. 5 seed would travel to No. 4 Washington, and the Vikings would host the Seahawks in the other wild-card matchup. This didn’t happen in a 36-6 loss to the Seahawks.
The Seattle Seahawks made a statement Sunday at the Arizona Cardinals.
It is hard to find too many positives from the loss, either.
Jeremy Lane’s early interception on a floater set the tone for Palmer, who struggled with his accuracy and kept getting balls batted down. Both lines were outworked in the trenches.
Arians warned the players of the potential letdown, and said team leaders “kind of brought it up to the other guys’ attention” during the week.
What this does is remove a lot of the positive vibes the franchise had built up over the past couple of months.
“What a great job by the punt return team and Tyler”, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. Watch Seahawks vs Cardinals online free live streaming today as these NFC West juggernauts square off.
More importantly, the blowout defeat also highlighted some specific problems that could haunt the Cardinals in the coming weeks.
Wilson sat out the fourth quarter, finishing 19 of 28 for 197 yards and no interceptions.
According to Pro Football Focus, Mathieu was the No. 1 cornerback in football this season before he went down with a torn ACL. “And he’s alive to play on defense as well”. So whenever they do kick it, that’s when we have to take advantage. When the defensive front couldn’t get to Wilson this week, the secondary suffered.
It is hard to draw to many conclusions from that game though.
With that said…it sure would be nice to avoid the Seahawks until the NFC Championship game, wouldn’t it?
Michael rushed 17 times for 102 yards, including a 44-yarder on Seattle’s first touchdown drive.
Not only did Wilson break Matt Hasselbeck’s 2007 single-season record for passing yards before halftime. Seattle now leads Arizona 30-6…yes, thirty to six. Really, since the Seahawks started 2-4, Sherman has seen them as grinders.
Despite all of these issues, the Cardinals do have to feel good about their chances heading into the playoffs.
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Rookie offensive lineman Mark Glowinski was nervous the day before Sunday’s game because he knew he was going to make his first start. “We are a 13-3 team and today was just one of those games”. Still not at their healthiest, the Seahawks used this game to show they can still dominate a top conference opponent in all three phases. He had not reported any concussion symptoms after last Sunday’s game, but when he was examined Wednesday he was placed into the concussion protocol.
