Yahoo Sports host Andrew Siciliano and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab preview Thursday night’s NFC West clash in the desert – where the Seahawks haven’t lost in 11 of their last 12 appearances. Check out the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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This blew me away.
I didn’t realize this, Frank.
Kyler Murray has lost 7 straight to the Seahawks.
Uh, that’s one of those things that had totally escaped me.
He’s beaten both the Rams and the Niners multiple times since he last beat the Seahawks in week 7 of 2020.
He is 2 and 8 in his career against Seattle, and the Cardinals have not won a home game against the Seahawks with a full stadium worth of fans, ’cause we’re gonna throw the COVID game out.
Um, since 2012.
Like, I did not realize it was that much dominance.
Yeah, I didn’t either.
And, you know, I mean, we talked about disappointing teams, and Andrew today I was doing a radio hit and they asked me, who’s your surprise team in the NFL this season?
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And I said the Colts are the obvious answer, you almost have to answer that, but I was like, I’m actually gonna give you a different answer though.
I think it’s the Seattle Seahawks.
I don’t think anybody’s talking about this team yet.
I think that changes after Thursday night.
The Seahawks’ defense has been awesome so far.
It is really, really good, very underrated, we’re talking top 5 defense.
And I think other than week one, which kind of threw us off the scent of maybe how good the Seahawks were, because Arnold struggled, nobody other than JSN caught any passes.
Since then, they’ve scored 70 points in the last two games.
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They’ve looked really, really good.
I think Tori Horton is coming alive, JSN’s awesome, Kenneth Walker has big playability.
Charbonnet will be back this week, it sounds like.
Arnold has played better, I think the Seahawks team is really good.
I, with all of the 49ers’ injuries, I think the Seahawks are the team that is going to end up competing with the Rams for the division title.
I, I, and I don’t think anybody’s talking about them yet, but playing on Amazon Prime Video on a Thursday night, if they could win that game, and I think they do, I think we’re gonna start talking about the Seahawks.
I’m not that big of a believer in the Cardinals.
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They look, yeah, they beat the Saints, they were outgained by the Saints.
They were, they beat the Panthers, but they were outgained by the Panthers at home.
That’s not great.
Last week, they lost to a 49ers team, that’s just being held together by Scotch tape because of all their injuries.
I, I just, I don’t believe in this Cardinals team.
James Conner is a big loss for them, just leadership-wise, like he, he’s a guy they all look to, like he, he’s kind of their tone setter.
I like Trey Benson as a player, but he’s not James Conner yet as far as in the locker room.
I just like the Seahawks.
I think we’re going to come out of this Thursday game again saying, oh wow, the Seahawks might be a playoff team in the NFC and maybe a serious contender to win that division, even ahead of a Rams team.
I have a lot of respect for.
Yeah, I, I already believe they’re a playoff team.
I truly do.