Carson Palmer: Palmer throws 3 TDs in SNF win over Seattle

“Mine (the celebration) was OK”, said Palmer, not known as the fleetest-of-foot passer.

In any case, they are falling off enormous wins against the Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns and are putting so as to hope to get three straight down Seattle.

“We played well”, Seattle All-Pro middle linebacker Bobby Wagner said. Palmer finished 29-of-48 passing for 363 yards and three touchdowns and an interception, a strong night against a still-good pass defense.

So rather than just try to play conservatively, they went all out, with Andre Ellington not just keeping the clock rolling, but popping a 48-yard touchdown run to seal it.

In Arizona, the Cardinals were treating it as anything but. On the ensuing Seahawks possession, Russell Wilson fumbled the ball into the end zone and recovered, so Arizona earned a safety and extended the Cardinals lead to 5-0. They spotted the Cardinals a 19-point lead in an embarrassment of a first half and stormed back in typical Seahawks fashion to take the lead with 13 minutes to play.

In the end, the Cardinals leave Seattle with a three-game lead on the Seahawks and the St. Louis Rams at 7-2. “Our confidence didn’t waver”. The Seahawks trailed 19-0 in the second quarter and 22-7 and halftime, but they scratched and clawed their way back to make it 25-17 going into the fourth quarter.

If Arizona’s own comeback Sunday had come against another team, it wouldn’t have carried the same kind of weight. I think the key thing for us was that it wasn’t one of those things in the past, where we let those guys keep scoring touchdowns. “The resilience is there”. Regardless of the two big Arizona turnovers they forced to change the game’s momentum, the fact remains that the once-proud and heralded Seattle defense surrendered 39 points and blew another fourth-quarter lead. K.J. Wright recovered and was ruled down at the 3, and Marshawn Lynch bulled his way in for his third touchdown of the season on the next play. Seattle’s two-point conversion attempt was incomplete, leaving the Seahawks down 25-23. “Championship teams – you’ve got to win those type of games when it’s close in the fourth quarter and we got the ball”.

“We’re a resilient group”, Palmer said. In the end the Cardinals needed to survive a Seahawks onside kick.

The Cardinals added a pair of long touchdown passes from Palmer to Floyd. The second was a 35-yarder down the left sideline.

But this one will not come easy.

Then on the next drive he caught a Palmer pass that gave them a first down but looked to be well off target. Wilson led the team to its first score, a 1-yard run by fullback Will Tukuafu with 1:52 left. “The second half, though, we played great football”. Iupati appeared to be caught off-guard by the security, decreasing his head just before taking the hit. The Caridnals formally announced that Iupati was taken to the hospital with a neck injury, & in that he has feeling in his extremities.

Iupati lay on the turf for about 10 minutes and was placed on a stretcher before being loaded into the ambulance. He was listed as questionable leading up to the game with an abdominal injury…. Absolutely they were. But the Seahawks certainly didn’t help themselves with a few of these penalties, most of which occurred in the secondary. Patrick Lewis started at center….