The Arizona Cardinals fell to 6-5 and saw their division lead and four-game winning streak end after their performance against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.

Due to the sloppy and slippery conditions in Seattle, the Cardinals offense struggled as the run game yielded just 49 yards on 14 carries. Quarterback Kyler Murray had 285 passing yards, but threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown and was sacked five times.

Arizona Sports hosts and reporters gave their biggest takeaways from the Cardinals’ loss:

How did the Arizona Sports anchors and writers react to the Cardinals’ loss to the Seahawks?

Tyler Drake Arizona Sports Cardinals beat writer and Cardinals Corner co-host: Ugly, ugly, ugly. The Cardinals entered the Week 12 matchup against the Seattle Seahawks needing to be a legitimate playoff contender. That didn’t happen thanks to a sputtering violation. Arizona’s defense was the bright spot of Sunday’s action. If that happens, we’ll be talking about a Cardinals win more often than not this season. Instead, the run game was non-existent as quarterback Kyler Murray regressed after weeks of stacking up. Add to that a third-down conversion rate of 3 for 12 and that’s all she wrote. No run game and an inconsistent K1 spell disaster even if the defense played like that. There’s still plenty of football to be played, but Arizona needs to bounce back in the next two weeks with Minnesota and Round 2, while Seattle looms.

Vince Marotta, co-host of Bickley & Marotta mornings: No in-depth analysis is necessary to describe the Seahawks’ 16-6 win over the Cardinals.

The players in the blue and neon green uniforms were by far the more physical, focused and desperate group on the field at Lumen Field on Sunday.

We’ve heard all about the Cardinals’ offensive identity: that they’re a physical, run-first football team. That strategy was scrapped early in a match that was never out of reach. Seattle’s defensive line ABSOLUTELY dominated the Cardinals’ offensive line, which should have been bolstered by the return of starting right tackle Jonah Williams. Arizona couldn’t run a block (the few times they tried). James Conner wasn’t his normal battering ram self when he needed to be due to lack of room to run. He had eight yards on seven carries. The Cardinals threw 37 times (42 putbacks) and ran 14 times. Not an ideal mix. They had no answer for DT Leonard Williams, who partied like it was 2016.

Kyler Murray has taken a huge step backwards in Seattle in my opinion. The biggest play of the game — Coby Bryant’s 69-yard interception return for a third-quarter touchdown that gave Seattle a 10-point lead — came on a crucial fourth-and-short spot where Murray looked like he might try to run for the victory. first down, but Devon Witherspoon did a great job cutting off the edge and forcing Murray into a terrible throwing decision, followed by a worse pass that sailed over Michael Wilson’s head and into the hands of Bryant. As comfortable as Murray looked for much of the season, he looked just as unsettled on Sunday.

Defensively, the Cardinals played well enough to win. They held Seattle’s offense to 10 points, 285 total yards, 2.6 yards per rush and sacked Geno Smith five times. But the concern remains the third-down defense. They haven’t been good on third downs this season, but have done quite well for much of the game. They had four of five sacks on third down and forced a red zone turnover on Garrett Williams’ interception early in the fourth quarter. . But when they absolutely had to make a stop in the fourth, they couldn’t. Seattle converted three consecutive third-down attempts on a crushing 13-play, 49-yard drive that took 8:12 off the clock and ended in a Jason Myers field goal that extended the lead to 10 points.

The Cardinals ranked 31st in the league in that category heading into Sunday, and Seattle’s 50% conversion rate Sunday won’t inspire much confidence that things will get better on that front anytime soon.

John Gambadoro, co-host of Burns & Gambo: You had the feeling early on that this wasn’t going to be the Cardinals’ day. The Cardinals had no rhythm on offense all game and Seattle’s pass rush was brutal all game. Arizona punted the first three times they had the ball and on five of their six possessions in the first half.

Kyler Murray was sacked twice on the Cardinals’ first possession and things never really got better from there. Arizona was held without a touchdown for the third time Murray started a game. He threw for 285 yards, but was sacked five times and threw an interception. The Cardinals could NOT run the ball for just 49 yards on 14 carries in what became a one-dimensional passing game for the visitors. Arizona threw the ball 37 times compared to those 14 rushes.

The Cardinals were just 3-for-12 on third down. We often say this when the Suns are losing a game where they aren’t hitting many three-pointers – the math didn’t work on this one. Not all is lost. The Cardinals get Seattle back home in a few weeks and have games coming up against Carolina and New England. While those teams aren’t good, the Panthers put pressure on the Chiefs today so Arizona can’t afford any disappointment when playing teams they’re expected to beat. All you wanted from the two games against Seattle was a break. That is still possible. Not the end of the world losing, you just have to catch them when they come here.