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Seahawks pressure Cardinals into a 3-for-13 night on third down and win 17-3

Seattle sacked Arizona three times, held it to 50 rushing yards and scored on two of its two red zone trips in a Week 9 win at Lumen Field.

173The TapeW 17–3vsCARDINALS
By Seahawks Desk, Pigskin NightlyNov 8, 9:31 PM ET3 min read

The deciding stretch

The game turned on 15 seconds at the end of the first half. Drew Lock threw a 7-yard touchdown to A.Barner with 0:15 left in the second quarter, the replay official upheld the catch, and J.Myers kicked the extra point. That was worth 6 percentage points of win probability, the biggest swing of the day for Seattle.

It was the second touchdown of a 14-point second quarter. The Seahawks trailed 3-0 after one quarter, then outscored Arizona 14-0 in the second and led 14-3 at the half. Seattle's longest drive of the game went 7 plays and 81 yards for a touchdown.

The Cardinals never got closer than the 3-0 lead they held early. Their longest drive covered 10 plays and 89 yards and ended in a field goal, which was the only scoring they managed.

The swing

The defense decided this game more than the offense did. Arizona went 4-for-13 on third down and punted its way through three three-and-outs in nine drives. Seattle went 7-for-13 on third down and had two three-and-outs of its own.

Pressure drove it. The Seahawks sacked G.Minshew three times for 18 yards, and one early sack-adjacent play stood out: with 4:51 left in the first quarter, Minshew threw away a deep left pass under pressure from N.Emmanwori's coverage and was flagged for intentional grounding, a 10-yard penalty enforced at the Arizona 27. That play moved win probability 5 points toward Seattle.

Arizona averaged 4.5 yards per pass and 2.8 yards per rush. Its total of 198 yards was 98 fewer than Seattle's 296. By EPA, which measures how many points each play adds or costs against what an average team would expect from that spot, Arizona finished at minus 0.188 per play. Seattle finished at plus 0.075.

The Cardinals also lost a turnover to the Seahawks' none, and went 0-for-2 in the red zone while Seattle went 2-for-2.

Who moved the needle

Lock was the offense. He completed 19 of 28 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions and no sacks, for a 96.6 rating. His 7.7 total EPA led the team, and Seattle's EPA per dropback was 0.266 against minus 0.116 per rush.

The explosive plays were modest. Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught 7 passes for 51 yards on 10 targets, with a long of 18, but his 10 plays added minus 1.8 EPA. Jadarian Price was the more efficient receiver, with 4 catches for 54 yards and 4.6 EPA, and Tory Horton added 2 catches for 22 yards and 2.1 EPA. Cooper Kupp caught 3 for 32.

On the ground, Zach Charbonnet carried 16 times for 77 yards, 4.8 per carry, with a long of 17. Price ran 9 times for 24 yards, 2.7 per carry, and his minus 2.8 rushing EPA was the worst on the team.

Up front, Byron Murphy II and DeMarcus Lawrence each had a sack, a quarterback hit and 2 tackles for loss. Julian Love led the team with 8 tackles, and Ernest Jones IV had 7 and a pass defensed.

Where it leaves them

Seattle is 5-4 with a plus-40 point differential (202 scored, 162 allowed) and a one-game winning streak. That puts the Seahawks second in the NFC West behind the 49ers at 7-1, level with the Rams at 5-4 and two games ahead of Arizona at 3-6. They sit eighth in the conference and are 4-2 at home and 1-2 on the road.

The road is next. The Seahawks play the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 4:05 PM ET on CBS in Week 10, and Seattle is a 3.5-point favorite with a total of 43.5.

How this was reported. Every number in this piece comes from the play-by-play, drive, injury and snap data Pigskin Nightly collects for every game. EPA (expected points added) is from the open nflverse model. We do not use anonymous sources or invent quotes. Read how we write; spotted an error? Tell us and we will correct it in the open.