The Seattle Seahawks took the right steps to get back on track with a 17-3 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Seattle improves to 5-4 on a day when they were missing quarterback Sam Darnold and six other starters. Sunday afternoon showed just how deep and well coached this Seahawks team truly is, successfully defending home turf from a frisky Cardinals team that has developed a bit of a reputation of pulling off road upsets this year.
Oh, speaking of which... the Seahawks have now extended their win streak to 11-straight victories over Arizona. This level of dominance is absurdly one-sided in both the series history and the NFL as a whole. Seattle's 11-straight wins are still the longest active streak in the league of one team over another. Only
13 other teams in NFL history have achieved win streaks of at least 13-straight, but the Seahawks will have to wait until next year to attempt to crack into that rarified air.
But that is for the 2027 Seahawks to accomplish. For now, the 2026 Seahawks are 5-4 and have kept the similarly 5-4 Los Angeles Rams at bay with a win over Arizona. It was a mostly sluggish defensive affair, as one would expect a game between two backup quarterbacks to be. But Drew Lock played as well as he did in Weeks 1 and 2, passing for an efficient 19-of-29 for 175 yards and one touchdown pass. He also did not turn the ball over. As for his counterpart on the other sideline, Gardner Minshew, it was much tougher sledding.
The Wazzu legend struggled in his return to the Evergreen State and couldn't get much traction against a Dark Side defense missing Leonard Williams, Uchenna Nwosu or Brandon Pili. Arizona's best drive of the game was their first of the afternoon, marching 89 yards on ten plays. The Cardinals began backed up against their one-yard line and managed to get within striking distance of a 28-yard field goal, which they nailed to take an early 3-0 lead.
And that was all she wrote for the Cardinals. No, I'm not exaggerating! Arizona's remaining eight possessions of the game went as follows:
- Punt
- Punt
- Punt
- Punt
- End of the first half
- Punt
- Punt
- Turnover on downs
Arizona's final drive did get within two yards of a touchdown, but Minshew's pass to Trey McBride was defended by Nick Emmanwori, slamming the door shut on Arizona making things interesting late. Minshew completed 21-of-30 for 166 yards with no touchdowns. He also took three sacks. He was fine, but obviously a much different outcome than his explosive 188 yard, three touchdown pass performance last week in Arizona's overtime comeback win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Now Seattle will prepare for their first road game in nearly a month. The Seahawks are headed to Sin City to face Klint Kubiak's Las Vegas Raiders, who were just waxed by the San Francisco 49ers 38-17. Vegas started the year with a red hot 3-0 record but have struggled mightily, going 1-5 since then. Still, the Raiders cannot be overlooked. The Seahawks need to find a way to win on the road, perhaps even without Sam Darnold again, before they get some much-needed rest during their Week 11 bye.
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: Seahawks complete the season sweep of the Cardinals with 17-3 victory
