RECAP: Seattle Seahawks versus the Arizona Cardinals

The Seattle Seahawks tied the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday 6-6 in as ugly and awful game as the Seattle has been involved in in a very long time. Seattle now is 4-1-1 going into another road game this coming day, versus the New Orleans Saints.

The Story: The bizarre

The Seahawks offense was simply offensive. Seattle kept the ball for 28:39 out of a possible 75 minutes. Seattle totaled 257 yards, most of which came in the fourth quarter and overtime. Arizona had 443 yards.

Seahawks safety Kelcie McCray played, including special teams, 108 plays. 108. As far as defensive snaps, McCray, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and DeShawn Shead played every one and that was all 95 of them.

The Cardinals who have struggled offensively this season except for running back David Johnson converted 10 of 21 third downs.

Usually Mr. Automatic, kicker Steven Hauschka, missed a 27-yard field goal with seven seconds left that would have won the game for the Seahawks, and this was a game they had no business being close to winning. Of course, this was after Cardinals kicker, Chandler Catanzaro, missed a 24-yard field goal that would have won the game for Arizona.

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson still cannot run around like fans expect him to and it shows in the production of the offense. Without Wilson adding nearly 60 yards a game rushing, and even more the threat of him being able to escape, Seattle’s offense becomes extremely limited.

Arizona’s Johnson did gain 113 yards but on 33 carries for a 3.4 yards-per-carry average, or roughly .1 yard better than the Seahawks Christine Michael had on 16 carries. Johnson and Michael had roughly the same game and besides Johnson running the ball much more than Michael, they had about the same impact on the game.

Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril was great once again and ended with 2.5 sacks. Frank Clark came back after missing the previous week to injury and had 1.5 sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss. Important to remember that while the Seahawks defense gave up a lot of yards, they only gave up only six points.

Plus, though the game was ridiculously ugly, the Seahawks got a tie on the road and as they were already two games in the loss column up against the Cardinals, a tie is really a win, even though the game felt like a loss.

MVP: Bobby Wagner

Wagner did his best Kam Chancellor impersonation and jumped the center not once but twice while the Cardinals attempted field goals. One Wagner blocked; the second appeared to affect the kicker enough where the ball clanked off the left upright and did not allow Arizona a must-needed win.

Wagner also was in on 13 tackles, 12 of which were solo. The Seahawks defense can ill afford to lose about four players, and Wagner is one of them.

LVP: Collectively the offensive line

With all the seeming progress that the line had made in previous weeks, the unit was completely overwhelmed by a Cardinals front that is good, but not the equal of the New York Jets, for instance. Wilson amazingly was not sacked, but was under constant pressure and the running game had nowhere to go.

Play of the Game:

Hauschka missed a field goal he would almost always make and kept the Seahawks from taking a commanding three game lead of the Los Angeles Rams and Cardinals in the N.F.C. West…but the Cardinals missed a field goal in overtime in a game they had to have.

Tweet of the Game:

Coach Pete Carroll’s face after Hauschka’s missed field goal says it all…

Next Up:

What’s next:

Sunday October 30th at New Orleans Saints
10:00 AM PDT
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana
TV: FOX

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