Huh? Palmer: Cardinals ‘didn’t get any calls’ in win over Seahawks

The end result is an offense that is 0.2 points per game below average after you adjust for strength of schedule, the lowest mark for this team since the 2011 season.

A grounding penalty on Wilson killed Seattle’s next drive and Arizona then methodically picked up two first downs before Andre Ellington ran 48 yards for the clinching score with 1:58 left. The Seahawks are using Graham as a blocker more and having him run different routes, but it’s surprising Graham and Wilson haven’t developed better chemistry (his three catches came on eight targets in Week 10).

“This team has the character we had a year ago”, Arizona coach Bruce Arians said.

“I don’t know”, said Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril. It’s a measure of just how self-contained and obsessively rigid National Football League coaches have become that the simple act of asking an employee “How can we help make you better at your job?” is seen as somehow revolutionary, but honestly, can you imagine any other coach letting players dictate his system rather than dictating it to players? But tests revealed no problems and he was in the locker room after the game.

“It was raw emotion”, Stanton continued. “It just lets everyone know that we’re here”. “The penalties really dictated what was going on when they got their first 19 points”, Carroll added. The strong chemistry between Palmer and Floyd has been evident since last season, and it only stands to grow as the season progresses. Carson Palmer had 235 passing yards and 2 touchdowns…in the first half. Seattle still has to play the Steelers, Vikings, Rams, and Cardinals over the next seven games. “We ran it earlier with a bubble screen instead, and at that point in time, we were going to try to get their last time out and punt it down there”. As Palmer fell to the turf, the loose football hit his foot and took a high bounce. A lot of people were saying, ‘Get out of bounds, ‘ and I’m saying, ‘Stay in bounds.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll agreed with that.

As for that Washington win, man is the Saints defense bad. We always defend the sidelines and get the ball to turn back.

“I don’t know man. It’s a team game”.

When the Arizona Cardinals headed west in 1988, it had been five years since their last playoff appearance – and it would be another ten until they finally made a return trip to the postseason. The Seahawks’ offense did score a fourth-quarter touchdown for the first time since Week 1, but only because the defense gave Seattle the ball on Arizona’s 3-yard line. (Drew Stanton is destined to be a folk hero in Arizona forever after this little display.) They have a three-game lead in the division with seven games to play, and they have the inside track for a first-round playoff bye.

“There’s no chance of a letdown”. The Seahawks finished with just 12 actual running plays and six scrambles from Russell Wilson.

“We definitely been through a few stuff since I’ve been here so I don’t see why we can’t come out of this”, Wagner said.

Carson Palmer and Michael Floyd escaped from Sherman Island and came away with a touchdown.

As for the Seahawks, coming back from a 19-0 second-quarter deficit was impressive, but the same bugaboos that have plagued this team all year showed up at the worst possible times. A decade after that, they almost won Super Bowl XLIII, but those Cards were still considered a fluke, a team that posted a 9-7 record and outscored their opponents by a grand total of one point over the course of the season. And while it might someday look like a good deal for the Seahawks, it’s hard when their offensive line is collapsing from the inside out. Never got to where we wanted to.

“It was important for us”. “The margin of error is really small and you only get a certain amount of times to do what you really need to do”. “We overcame the plays that they made”. “It was a great confidence-builder for us”. No one expected that in Seattle, but now, that’s two Palmer wins there in a row despite losing the turnover faceoff. The heroes are aligned, and the strategies are working. No warnings that they would call the game tightly, or that players were being too grabby – or explanations of much of anything.