Seahawks roll, end Cards’ 9-game streak

In a match-up between the top two teams in the NFC West, the Arizona Cardinals welcome the Seattle Seahawks at the University of Phoenix Stadium in the final week of the regular season in the National Football League. Carroll said it was at the team’s morning walkthrough on Wednesday when it became apparent something was off with Sweezy.

It turned out as bad as he feared. The top seed in the NFC is the Carolina Panthers, with a record of 15-1.

“This was a valuable lesson today”, he said. “You just keep winning, keep having fun, keep overcoming and things will happen”. It’s a nice wakeup call. We’re getting closer to finally seeing how it all shakes out.

The Seattle Seahawks could be down two starting offensive linemen and their starting tight end for Sunday’s regular-season finale in Arizona.

“Every year, I just want to get better”, Wilson said.

“Sometimes people forget who we are”, Richard Sherman said after the game, and I’m one of those people who was reminded on Sunday with interceptions by Earl Thomas, Jeremy Lane and DeShawn Shead.

Hauschka made good from 33 and 52 yards in the third quarter as the Seahawks padded their lead. Seattle now leads Arizona 30-6…yes, thirty to six.

Tyler Lockett set up three of Seattle’s four first-half touchdowns – with punt returns of 66 and 42 yards and a 36-yard reception. In a span of 3 minutes, 54 seconds, he threw TD passes of 7 yards to Will Tukuafu, 8 yards to Chase Coffman and 24 yards to Jerome Kearse.

If Glowinski does in fact start, it won’t be his first appearance in a Seahawks uniform. Chandler Catanzaro missed the extra point for the 5th time this season making it a 10-6 game.

“Sluggish, no energy, lackadaisical, and it caught up with us”, cornerback Patrick Peterson said. Well, Wilson and the offense pulled off a stunning U-turn that has them not only in the playoffs but seemingly poised to march right back to the Super Bowl. “Hey, in early parts of the season, the Seahawks seemed to have forgotten who they were, too”.

A Cardinals win coupled with a Panthers’ loss would have given Arizona the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.

While the MVP talk has centered around Cam Newton and Carson Palmer, fourth-year quarterback Russell Wilson continued his impressive second half by throwing for three touchdowns and no interceptions in the rout.

The second-seeded Cardinals will host a divisional-round game January 16 or 17, possibly against the Seahawks. Everyone was following his latest, zooming performance in Seattle’s 36-6 steamrolling of the Arizona Cardinals.

Drew Stanton replaced Palmer and was intercepted twice. Basically, it weighs as many variables as possible – not just wins and losses – in an attempt to figure out the best team in the NFL. “It’s disheartening with the way we performed today”.

They got a taste of how the other half lives in Week 17, however.

NOTES: Fitzgerald finished the season with 109 catches and Palmer 4,671 yards passing. That was defensive tackle Cory Redding, who exited the game with an ankle injury and did not return. “This offseason I think the kid Brown said I couldn’t guard him one on one”. He has not played since the November 15 game against Arizona and had abdomen surgery November 25.