Seahawks vs. Cardinals 2017 results: Score updates and highlights from ‘Thursday Night Football’

Russell Wilson threw for 238 yards and two touchdowns, and Arizona ran for just 34 yards on 24 carries, giving the Seahawks a road win over Arizona to help their playoff push.

Seahawks 22, Cardinals 16: Too little, too late for a struggling Arizona offense. Andre Ellington punched in a score in the final minute, but Phil Dawson missed the extra point.

Seahawks 22, Cardinals 10: Nobody on Seattle is safe from injuries. This time, Kam Chancellor took a trip to the injury tent.

Seahawks 22, Cardinals 10: Larry Fitzgerald hauled in a pass from Drew Stanton for 17 yards, making Fitzgerald the sixth player in NFL history with 15,000 receiving yards.

Seahawks 22, Cardinals 10: Jimmy Graham caught his second touchdown of the night, but the play of the drive was a play of the year candidate, a circus play with a scrambling Russell Wilson finding Doug Baldwin down the sideline for 54 yards.

Seahawks 15, Cardinals 10: Seattle’s defense keeps taking hits, this time with Richard Sherman limping off the field. Sherman was listed as questionable on the injury report this week with an Achilles injury, and he ruptured it on Thursday night. Sherman knew right away, and told teammates on the sideline that he was out for the year.

On offense, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson missed one play after taking a hit, though his first trip to the sideline medical tent was perfunctory at best:

Seahawks 15, Cardinals 10: Arizona drove for a field goal in their first possession of the second half, helped along by Seattle’s 10th penalty of the game. That has helped a Cardinals’ offense on this night.

Seahawks 15, Cardinals 7: With friendly field position, the Seahawks moved the ball far enough to set up another field goal for Walsh.

The Cardinals had a chance to get some points at the end of the half. Andre Ellington coughed up the ball after a catch, with Seattle’s defense recovering, but it was ruled an incomplete pass on review. It didn’t end up mattering since Arizona failed to convert a fourth down.

Seahawks, 12, Cardinals 7: Blair Walsh, one week after going 0-for-3 on field goals, hit a 33-yarder to extend Seattle’s lead.

While the Cardinals’ offense ground to a halt, the Seahawks found a spark again, but their offensive line suffered another huge loss when Duane Brown left with a lower-leg injury late in the quarter.

Seahawks 9, Cardinals 7: After a punt backed up the Cardinals at their own 2-yard line, Kam Chancellor dropped Peterson in the end zone for a safety, the second straight week the Seahawks scored one.

Seahawks 7, Cardinals 7: Thanks to all the penalties, the Cardinals got the ball on Seattle’s 14-yard line and Jermaine Gresham went the distance on a screen pass, tying this game up.

Arizona took advantage of multiple Seahawks penalties to move into field goal range. The Seahawks ended the first quarter with five penalties, four resulting in an Arizona first down.

Seahawks 7, Cardinals 0: After a few poor drives, the Seahawks’ offense came to life, with Wilson driving his team down inside the red zone. He got Seattle on the board with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jimmy Graham.

Cardinals offensive lineman D.J. Humphries left the game after a nasty-looking knee injury when Sheldon Richardson rolled up on his leg. He’s most likely done for the night.

The Seahawks were forced to punt after an impressive play by Tyvon Branch, who broke up a sure touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett.

Seattle went three-and-out to start the game, with the offensive line struggling once again. However, the Seahawks got the ball right back when Adrian Peterson fumbled on his first carry.

The Seattle Seahawks fell to 5-3 after a crushing home loss to Washington, and they now face a must-win scenario when they play the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night at 8:25 p.m. ET on NBC and NFL Network (live stream at NBC Sports or Amazon Prime).

Seattle lost its grip on first place in the NFC West after a sloppy, mistake-filled game against Washington. Blair Walsh missed three field goals, and the Seahawks committed 16 penalties en route to a 17-14 loss. They also struggled to find an identity on offense, insisting on a broken run game even when it clearly wasn’t working.

Eddie Lacy suffered a groin injury in that game and won’t be playing Thursday, while Earl Thomas is also out with a hamstring pull. Sheldon Richardson is listed as questionable, but he’s active and playing. The Seahawks have a knack for coming back from big setbacks in the Pete Carroll era, but they’ll be particularly challenged here against a feisty division foe.

Despite losing Carson Palmer and David Johnson indefinitely, the Cardinals are still playing hard and find themselves on the fringes of the playoff race at 4-4. Drew Stanton didn’t have to do much to beat the San Francisco 49ers in Week 10, because handing off to Adrian Peterson was all he needed. Peterson had a vintage performance with 37 carries for 159 yards, carrying the offense and showing that he still has something left at 32 years old.

Bruce Arians hit major setbacks this season, but he has his team fighting and staying in games, so the Cardinals can’t be counted out even with all the major injuries. We can expect them to give the Seahawks a competitive effort and potentially even an upset if Seattle doesn’t clean up its mental errors. Don’t sleep on this game.

In the last three games, the Seahawks have had to overcome penalty situations of 15-110, 10-120 and 16-138. Twice they did overcome and pulled out a win. Once they couldn’t, as penalties were just one thing among many that went wrong vs. Washington in Week 9. But a big thing regardless.

The Seahawks are 5-3, the same record they had in 2014 when they fell one play short of winning the Super Bowl. A better record than they had in 2012 and 2015, when they went to the second round. A very similar record to last season, also a second round playoff appearance. And again, I’m stopping you before you say, “This is different.”

It’s not. There are differences, but it is not different. This is still a team that outside of 2013, plays very inconsistently under Carroll. Inconsistent quarter-to-quarter, inconsistent game-to-game. Obviously that means that I am not saying that the team is perfect or that there aren’t issues with the coaching, game-planning, and execution, but they are the same issues that have been around since this team got talented in 2012. The same ones. And those same Seahawks teams have been in a position to make a playoff run every single year.

There is still plenty of time to make up that ground, but given all of the injuries to key players the Cardinals have sustained to this point, staying in range to make a run at the postseason won’t be an easy task.

The only way they are going to be able to do it is to ride the back of a future Hall of Famer.