Drew Stanton Was Very, Very Excited About Andre Ellington’s Touchdown Run

The Seahawks rallied from a 19-point deficit to take the lead Sunday night at home against Arizona, but quarterback Carson Palmer guided the Cardinals to a pivotal 39-32 victory.

If the Cardinals can pull off that accomplishment this time, they would give themselves a three-game over Seattle in the division race with seven games to go. “It’s an all-day job against those guys”.

As Week 10 winds to a close, it’s becoming more and more apparent that the midseason turnaround just might not be coming for the Seahawks. The Cardinals stopped Seattle on its next possession and Ellington added the punctuation, sprinting down the sideline on a third-down run to cap Arizona’s big night.

Palmer threw for 363 yards and three touchdowns and the Cardinals won in Seattle for the second time in three years handing the Seahawks a second straight home loss. Palmer’s strike to Gresham gave Arizona a 32-29 lead and the cushion was pushed to 10 after Ellington’s TD run. Critically, look at Drew Stanton. Floyd now has a touchdown in four consecutive games, the first Cardinal to do that since WR Larry Fitzgerald in 2013. “Our confidence didn’t waver”.

Seattle went into halftime down 22-7, and the teams traded field goals to open the second half before the Seahawks went into serious comeback mode.

And nearly immediately after the Seahawks were done celebrating Lynch’s score, Seattle was in the lead thanks to another sack and fumble on Palmer.

But the moment that everyone is talking about centered on a player who wasn’t even on the field. “We fought back, which is key”. His 23 touchdown passes rank second only to Tom Brady, and his quarterback rating of 108 is good enough for third in the league. That was where Seahawks inside linebacker Bobby Wagner picked up the ball and ambled untouched into the end zone. They allowed 117 rushing yards, including Andre Ellington’s 48-yard score just after the two-minute warning that essentially sealed the win. To have any playoff hopes, Seattle needs both the offense and defense to click much better than they have to date. Seattle C Drew Nowak, who had started seven of the Seahawks’ first eight games, was inactive.

“There’s always room for improvement, but scoring on defense is always good”, Avril said.

The Bengals, Arians said, are “very similar” to the Cardinals. After New York’s Josh Brown made his fourth field goal of the game with 1:47 remaining, Tom Brady drove the Patriots (9-0) 44 yards, converting a fourth-and-10 on the series. In fact, this might be the best Arizona Cardinals team we have ever seen, and the NFC is theirs for the taking. That Seattle had an extra safety in this coverage was irrelevant against this traditional Cover 3-beater because “flood” stresses the zones near the sideline, away from the safeties. With 6:41 left in the second quarter the Cardinals took a 12-0 lead.

They did Sunday. Fourteen penalties for 131 yards, including critical O-line blunders in the first half, is characteristic of a young team on the come, not a two-time defending NFC champion.

After being hardly touched in the first half, Palmer was under duress constantly for the first 20 minutes of the second half and forced into a pair of fumbles.

Then again, this time in the fourth quarter, Palmer evades the rush by moving to his left, keeps his shoulders and feet squared at his target and hits Floyd for another first down. However, a CT scan and MRI were normal, and he was released from the hospital.