Seattle Seahawks Dud and Stud of Game 10 – Arizona
After every Seattle Seahawks game, Pacific Northwest Sports presents our Dud and Stud of the week. Here are the Zeroes and Heroes of the Seahawks 28-21 win over Arizona.
Every week the Seattle Seahawks play, Pacific Northwest Sports will present our Dud and Stud of the game. It’s a way to pay tribute to those who played well and call out the players who didn’t.
Seattle got on the board first with a 12 play, 75-yard drive on the game’s opening possession. It culminated with a masterful bit of improv from both Russell Wilson and D.K. Metcalf on a 25-yard touchdown pass. The rest of the first half was mostly a punt-fest. Seattle took a 16-7 lead into the break.
There were plenty more fireworks in the second half. Both teams had several sustained drives. Seattle only had three possessions in the second half and scored points on two of them. The big story, however, was the defense, or more precisely, the pass rush.
Pinned on his 14-yard line, after a nice punt by Michael Dickson, Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was pressured by Jamal Adams into throwing the ball away. The pass didn’t go far enough, and he was flagged for intentional grounding.
Seattle came after Murray again on the next play as well, which drew another flag on Arizona. This time it was a holding call on former Seahawks guard JR Sweezy in the endzone, which cost his team two points, putting the Seahawks up 25-21.
Following a free-kick, the Seahawks controlled the clock for almost seven minutes and kicked a field goal to pull ahead by a touchdown. Murray tried to march his team downfield for a tying score.
Unlike the first meeting between the teams, the Seahawks defense eventually shut down Arizona. This time Seattle got a sack on the elusive Kyler Murray (one of three on the night) on fourth down to put the game away with under a minute to go.
FINAL: The @Seahawks take first place in the NFC West.
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— NFL (@NFL) November 20, 2020