For years, Arizona’s stadium in Glendale has been a house of horrors for the Seattle Seahawks.
Injuries to Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, Earl Thomas and Will Dissly over the past few years all occured down in the desert, but despite the nightmare scenarios, Seattle at least managed to find a way to win.
However – the Seahawks decided to switch things up this year, and instead had their gut-wrenching, injury-ravaged yearly tradition against Arizona at home this year, and it resulted in an ugly 27-13 loss.
The Seahawks, already coming into the game down four starters on defense and one, Duane Brown, on offense, lost both Chris Carson and C.J. Prosise to injury in the first half, leaving them with just Travis Homer in the backfield for the rest of the game.
Updates for Carson and Prosise will be provided as soon as they are available.
The injuries seemed to sap the life out of the Seahawks, who got absolutely boat-raced by the Cardinals. Arizona scored 20 unanswered points after Seattle scored first, which came on a three-yard touchdown pass to fullback Nick Bellore.
Seattle’s defense was unable to contain running back Kenyan Drake, who rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns, and the pass rush was non-existent all game long.
Seattle’s offense was even worse, at one point going three consecutive drives with a grand total of negative 25 yards of total offense. An offensive line without Brown was unable to stop Chandler Jones, who had three sacks in the first half and finished with four sacks, six quarterback hits and two fumbles forced.
Seattle did not get a single first down in either the second or third quarter.
The momentum shifted briefly when Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray left the game with a hamstring injury, forcing former Seahawks backup Brett Hundley into the contest. A drive stalled and forced a field goal attempt, which was blocked by Rasheem Green and picked up by Marquise Blair, who ran 46 yards and set Seattle up for a field goal early in the fourth quarter.
After another Seahawks field goal, Hundley marched Arizona 78 yards, rushing for 38 of them on his own, and eventually handing the ball to Drake for his second touchdown of the game and the final nail in the coffin for Seattle.
The Seahawks still have a chance to win the NFC West with a win in Week 17 over the 49ers, who they will take on at 5:20 p.m. PT. on Sunday in Seattle.
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