Have a look at the Cardinals’ final injury report of the week.
The Arizona Cardinals are ready to go in their regular-season finale at home against the Seattle Seahawks. They will play without a few key players, but none of them are really a surprise.
In their final injury report, they ruled out four players and have another four who will be gameday decisions.
Christian Kirk, Chase Edmonds and others have the chance to hit some nice career marks on Sunday.
The Arizona Cardinals will end the regular season at home this weekend against the Seattle Seahawks. The game itself matters a lot because the Cardinals still have a chance to win the NFC West.
Divisional games are always important at the team level.
At the individual level, several Cardinals have the opportunity to reach particular season milestones or career-highs.
Take a look at some of the achievements within reach.
The Cardinals have beaten the Seahawks at home in consecutive seasons since 2011-2012. Wilson is 6-2-1 At State Farm Stadium against Arizona.
The Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks have had an odd rivalry over the years. No other team in the NFL has has the success the Cardinals have had in Seattle. However, the Seahawks have more or less been absolute money in Arizona.
The Cardinals and Seahawks meet this Sunday afternoon at State Farm Stadium and Arizona has the opportunity to do something it has not done since the start of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson’s career began — beat them in consecutive home games.
Since Wilson entered the league in 2012, the Cardinals have only beaten the Seahawks at home twice. The first time was Wilson’s debut in Week 1 2012. The last time was the Cardinals’ 37-34 overtime win last year.
They have not beaten the Seahawks at home in consecutive seasons since they won in the 2011 finale and then Wilson’s debut in 2012.
Wilson is 6-2-1 at State Farm Stadium.
This weekend, of course, could end up being Wilson’s final game with the Seahawks, depending on how things play out.
It would be fitting for the Cardinals to end Wilson’s Seattle career the way it started, with a loss in Arizona.
Check out the Seahawks’ second injury report of the week.
The Seattle Seahawks began the week with a lengthy injury report. 17 players in all appeared and only one was on it something other than an injury or an illness.
Things improved Thursday, as five players came off the report completely.
T Stone Forsythe (illness), C Ethan Pocic (illness), C Dakoda Shepley (illness), CB Bless Austin (hip) and RB Rashaad Penny (groin) were all non-participants on Wednesday but came off the report Thursday.
Who remains? The details of Thursday’s injury report are below.
There were some improvements on Arizona’s second injury report of the week.
The Arizona Cardinals returned to practice on Thursday and had better participation, according to their second injury report of the week. The four players who sat out of practice Wednesday for rest were back to practice as normal, and one player was upgraded.
This will be on the fourth time this season Murray plays with his five starting linemen and first time since Max Garcia replaced Josh Jones in the lineup.
The Arizona Cardinals have had to deal with injuries and illness on their offensive line this season. They have used nine different starting lineups on the offensive line this season.
However, unless something changes in the next couple of days, the Cardinals will roll out their five offensive line starters for the first time since Week 9. D.J. Humphries will be back at left tackle, Justin Pugh at left guard, Rodney Hudson at center, Max Garcia at right guard and Kelvin Beachum at right tackle.
It is the first time that Murray will play behind the five starters. In Week 9, the last time this group of five started, Colt McCoy was at quarterback against the San Francisco 49ers.
“I just think it’s a credit to those guys, all of the hard work that they’ve put in and continue to put in,” Murray told reporters Wednesday. “To be able to rotate that many guys and still have the continuity, the relationships, the execution, it’s a credit to them, ‘Coach Kugs’ (Sean Kugler) and the job that they’ve done. No matter who’s in there, I have the utmost confidence in each one of those guys. To have all of them playing together now, including me, I’m looking forward to it. I don’t know what it feels like yet.”
This is not technically the first time all season Murray has played with the starting offensive line. It is the first time he is playing with this starting offensive line. Max Garcia, now the No. 1 right guard, was not the starter all season. He replaced Josh Jones around midseason.
Jones was the starting right guard to begin the season and it was not because of injury.
The original starting five of Humphries, Pugh, Hudson, Jones and Beachum were together for three of the first five games — Weeks 1, 2 and 5.
So Murray now will be playing with the five starters for the fourth time this season.
Arizona is 4-0 when they have their five designated starting linemen. They can push that to 5-0 this weekend against the Seahawks.
The Seahawks’ initial injury report of the week is 17 players long.
The Seattle Seahawks are banged up as they enter their final game of the season, a road game in Week 18 against the Arizona Cardinals. Their initial injury report of the week on Wednesday was 17 players long, 11 of whom were unable to practice.
Have a look at the Cardinals’ first injury report of the week.
The Arizona Cardinals began their week of practice and released their first injury report of the week. It is lengthy. Nine players sat out, although four were simply given the day off for rest without injuries. Another three were limited.
The Arizona Cardinals got back to their winning ways on Sunday and that is what Revenge of the Birds’ Seth Cox and I discussed in this edition of the podcast.
We break down the win and the unexpected contributions from some players, we discuss whether they are back on track, go through the Cardinals’ playoff scenarios and preview Cardinals-Seahawks.
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Preparing for their Week 18 game against the Seahawks, the Cardinals protected Bashaud Breeland, Kevin Peterson, Danny Isidora and Tahir Whitehead.
The Arizona Cardinals were expected to sign veteran cornerback Bashaud Breeland to their practice squad a week ago after rookie corner Marco Wilson suffered a shoulder injury. He contracted COVID-19 so that signing did not happen until Tuesday.
Now on the practice squad, the Cardinals included him among the four practice squad players they protected from being signed by any other team.
They once again included two cornerbacks. Here are their four protected players, according to the NFL transaction report on Tuesday.
CB Bashaud Breeland
G Danny Isidora
CB Kevin Peterson
LB Tahir Whitehead
Peterson has had to play on defense the last two weeks for the Cardinals. Whitehead is likely protected because Tanner Vallejo, who came back from injured reserve last week, was placed on the COVID list on Tuesday. Whitehead has been elevated to play special teams this season.
Isidora is protected, likely because the Cardinals don’t want to lose him. They don’t seem to have any injuries on the offensive line.
Breeland probably won’t get elevated this week to play but he could be for the playoffs.
