The Seattle Seahawks are still licking their wounds following their first shutout defeat in over a decade. Now they return home to face the leaders in the NFC West… the Arizona Cardinals.
At 3-6 the Seahawks season is borderline in hospice care. A return to the playoffs is still possible, but it would require them to win eight-straight games to finish with an 11-6 record. Doing so would have to start against the Cardinals.
Arizona is going into this game a little banged up at two vital positions. Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is out yet again, and quarterback Kyler Murray has been ruled out.
And so, backup Colt McCoy will get another start. The Seahawks are far too familiar with McCoy, who helped deliver the New York Giants an upset victory over the Seahawks in Seattle last year. McCoy wasn’t special, but he gave Seattle one of their worst losses in recent memory and cost them better playoff seeding.
McCoy is one of the more capable backups in the NFL, having played spectacularly two weeks ago as the Cardinals bullied the 49ers in Santa Clara. The Seahawks may be getting a break without Murray under center, but the Cardinals are still a more than dangerous opponent.
Prediction: Cardinals over Seahawks 24-16
The Cardinals have owned the Seahawks at home for the better half of a decade. Since 2013, the Cardinals are 5-3 in Lumen Field, making the Emerald City practically Glendale-north.
The Seahawks offense is broken, regardless of who is quarterbacking. Seattle failed to score a single point in Russell Wilson’s return. Wilson wasn’t just missing easy completions, he was also making truly horrendous decisions as well. Sunday will go a long way to determining if last week was a case of Wilson being rusty, or if he is not nearly as healthy as he’d like to make people think.
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