Week 7: Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks
One of the more surprising results from last season happened back in Week 16 of the 2019 season. On that afternoon, just prior to Christmas, the 4-9-1 Arizona Cardinals traveled north to take on the 10-4 Seattle Seahawks. The Cardinals were playing for pride, the Seahawks were playing for the division.
But on that afternoon, Kliff Kingsbury and his charges stunned the Seahawks, knocking them off by a final score of 27-13 and forcing Seattle into a must-win game in Week 17 against the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC West title. Had the Seahawks won that afternoon they would have been in the driver’s seat for the division heading into Week 17, but a loss dropped them out of first place in the NFC West, and set up a clash against the 49ers that they would ultimately lose. In the span of a few weeks the Seahawks went from potentially spending all of the postseason in the friendly confines of CenturyLink Field, to facing a cross-country trip on Wild Card Weekend to play the Philadelphia Eagles.
Now, the Cardinals are coming off a very solid draft, while the Seahawks…well let’s just say they did things their own way. That makes for a very intriguing rematch come Week 7.