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>> al: tonight's aerial coverage being brought to you by geico. "sunday night football" on this 15th night of november. seattle, washington. centurylink field. palmer chased down. throws. and throws it into the seattle bench. third down. carson palmer won the heisman trophy, recruited by paul hackett and played for pete carroll his junior and senior years and bruce arians. played, of course, for marvin lewis, spent years in oakland talking about bruce and pete and two guys who were kind of 180 in ra way but they share a lot of similar traits. >> cris: carson says you cannot be on more opposite ends of the spectrum than those two. bruce arians such a fan friendly kind of guy, but carson says he's rough on the players in the film discussion. >> al: third down and six.

look out. he loses the ball. the ball is loose. it's picked up by the seahawks and rolling into the end zone for a touchdown is k.j. wright. you have cliff avril coming in forcing it. the ball was dislodged. it bounces up in the air. palmer can't handle it. >> cris: but i think carson palmer made the tackle on this play. >> referee: ruled a touchdown. >> cris: ball's out, no question. it's actually going to get kicked there. but now let's watch and see if they pick it up if carson palmer gets a piece. he's diving for the ball. and definitely hit k.j. wright. so that will not be a touchdown. >> al: be down by contact at the 2 yard line. so all turnovers reviewed, and it should make it a first and xwoel

goal at the 2. >> referee: under review. >> al: has had a great year but i haven't called him name often tonight. he hasn't been involved as much as he has been. so many stars on the defense, you overlook a guy like that. as soon as you start overlooking him, up he pops to what would be the biggest play of the game to this point. >> cris: off the edge right here. and nobody picks it up. bobbie massie goes down inside, and they basically just turn avril loose around the edge. that's the second time now we've seen that massie has chosen sort of opposite maybe what would have been the right thing. but that ball was bouncing around. and i think that carson palmer was the only one on the cardinals that knew hit. it was so loud in here as that was happen. at least he made the heads-up

play there to save it. that's the same way that russell wilson did against the cowboys maybe to win that game. >> al: cliff avril is the master of the sack fumble. he's caused 22 of them in his eight years in the league. started his career with detroit. you got robert mathis at 22 and tampa hali of kansas city with the same number. but he does it here again. they'll probably rule this down. >> cris: i believe that he and michael bennett are the best fair of four-three in the game of football. they can line up anywhere. up and down the field. they are a nightmare trying to get blocks so quick. once this crowd gets into it. >> referee: after review of the play, defender recovered the ball, was contacted by the quarterback putting him down by

contact with the ball at the 3 yard line. seattle's ball first and goal from the 3. please put 14:49 on the game clock. >> al: tom cable offensive line coach. for a while he was the head coach of oakland. >> cris: i'll tell you, he has remade this offensive line. they were not very good earlier in the year. but over the past two or three games you can see the improvement. >> al: there's okung who hurt his ankle and had to come out on the last series. first and goal from the three yard line. lynch is the running back. marshawn. finds it.

touchdown. handshakes in the end zone. don't see that very often these days. two-point conversion. we have a tied game. >> cris: patrick lewis, the new center, going to jump out there and get bucannon. then marshawn lynch took his sweet time getting in there but found his way in and nobody ever did put him on the ground. now this game is starting to turn into the physical battle that i really thought it might be for the seattle seahawks and what they might do on offense. and maybe now they just carry this on. because once marshawn lynch gets going, boy, this place goes crazy in here. >> al: two-point conversion. three receivers set to the left. they try to tie the game. and a little floater is

incomplete. and there is no flag on the play. so it remains a two-point game with arizona still on top early in the fourth. family? yep, totally. it's practically yours, but we still need your signature. the sign then drive event. zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on a new jetta and other select volkswagen models.

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day. by geico. 15 minutes could save you on car insurance. brought to you by the newly designed volkswagen passat. that's graham coming over in a trade with the saints in the off-season. with the staff and families and patients a tt seattle veterans administration hospital earlier this week. centurylink field just south of downtown seattle. that's marshawn lynch's mother, delisa. she gets the football that he carried into the end zone. >> cris: not afraid of expressing her opinion. we've had a few of those. loves her baby. >> al: her baby's pretty quiet at least publicly. so mom carries the torch. david johnson, a couple of yards in. and coverage is outstanding. tackled by michael morgan at the

13 yard line. >> cris: one of the things for arizona offensively is since mike iupati has gone out we've not seen the same kind of success running the football. local go back to regular season, postseasons since 2012, they only trail by 19. two of those wins were in the nfc championship games against san francisco then last year against green bay. the crowd trying to disrupt the signals of carson palmer at the 13 yard line. pressure up the middle. palmer on the outside. too high for fitzgerald. >> cris: chris johnson is not a very big guy but carson palmer said, listen, this guy is not afraid of anything. these people are about 30 to 40 pounds heavier than he is.

he sort of steps up and protects me. i love him. he had the protections down in first week. i couldn't believe how smart a guy he was. >> al: wagner got in there at the end to protect palmer. second down and ten. >> cris: they continue to bring the pressure. >> al: slips away. complete. fitzgerald gets ripped by right. and a flag comes in. larry will get up and with a smile knows he'll be the res recipient and beneficiary of a personal foul. >> cris: just a no-doubter there.

>> referee: personal foul. unnecessary roughness. contact on defensive receiver. 15 yards from previous spot. first down. >> cris: he knew it was going to come. he was trying to slow down. hit me here. but instead k.j. wright hit him there. right call. k.j. wright saying, listen, my bad. >> al: yep. larry bounces up with a smile, penalty. takes him up to the 28 yard line. first down. half a minute into the fourth quarter. >> cris: three tight ends for arizona. maybe they're trying to establish a run game. >> al: we haven't seen this set. this is johnson. who gets taken down there for a gain of two. verman and chancellor come up to take him down. second down and eight. >> cris: one thing to say larry fitzgerald's going to block them. another thing to get it done.

chancellor will spin off of this block and right back into johnson. we have not seen chris johnson break out in this one the way he has in prior games. . >> al: johnson again. slides to his left. up to the 34. irvin being on the tackle. third down and four for the cardinals. >> cris: some play by jordan hill, too t as he cut off the block of watford and made a diving stop. a little space there. third down and four.

. three receivers to the right. palmer's going to go down. the ball's out again. and going into the end zone to give seattle the lead for the touchdown is bobby wagner. k.j. wright with the strip sack. . >> cris: that at least the third free runner i've seen just up here. when you got that pressure, you have to block down. it's the interior gaps you have to get first. and maybe because of all the injuries and the substitutions, but they have made a lot of protection mistakes here tonight. and carson palmer has got to be getting a little gun shy here.

>> al: well, they lose iupati. they had a big lead. >> cris: but jonathan cooper and bobbie massie on the right side have just had issues throughout the course of the night. and the general rule -- i don't know what the rule is for down here, but the general rule is you have to protect the inside gap first because that's the shortest path to the quarterback, and it has cost them a couple. >> al: they're going to go for two here to try to make it a six-point lead. the last two third down plays for arizona have both been strip sacks. >> cris: wow. and you have to say this atmosphere has something to do with it. >> al: no doubt. and that seattle defense. >> cris: a little bit. >> al: which has always been very good. leaked a little bit in first half. but that's the seattle defense that this crowd has come to know and love. two-point conversion. you have wilson on the other. fires incomplete.

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>> al: thanksgiving night special night for us as we go to green bay. bears/packers is always great. brett favre will have his number retired. jersey number retired, number 4, at a halftime ceremony. going to be quite a night, thanksgiving night. bears/packers right here on nbc. so seattle has now had the lead in every game over the last 3 1/2 seasons every one that wilson has played in. and david johnson gets tackled up at the 17 yard line. >> cris: since mike iupati has gone out, protection issues have been an issue. here they're going to leave a runner on the inside gap as massie goes to the outside. the only time, one guy there, they double-team inside and

leave cliff avril, maybe the most dangerous pass rusher on this team, then they'll block outside and leave the three runners inside. maybe that was chris johnson's guy, i'm not sure. but it's been the protection and the free runners that has completely turned this game. >> al: see if the adjustments are made here as they stride from the 17 yard line. palmer takes it out of the pistol. throws to fitzgerald. larry for a 15 yard gain on first down. >> cris: the biggest difference, al, with this football team in my opinion has been their ability to run the ball. mike iupati has been their best run blocker. with jer aud veldheer, they look like a different team running the football. now over to seattle's defense because it's a pass rush game. >> al: they're averaging about

2.3 yards per rush tonight. that won't get it done. palmer to the outside. too high. intended for john brown. it will be second down and ten. >> cris: give carson palmer credit. he stood in there. i think i would have been flinching a little bit after what i've been through for the past two or three series, but it may very well come down to now can carson palmer and larry fitzgerald and company get it done throwing the football? >> al: for palmer, for the cardinals who at one point in the game led 19-0. deep drop. caught. fitzgerald has to go to the ground, though. that's going to set up a third down and four. this defense has had trouble holding leads.

the seahawks with four losses, in every game they've had the lead in the fourth quarter and they've lost four games, two in overtime. kris richard, the defensive coordinator. see what he dials up on a third down and four. >> cris: they were okay on the four man rush. it's when they bring pressure they've had issues. >> al: and here comes pressure. a flag is thrown as lloyd makes the catch and skips out of bounds. floyd has the first down pending the call. 19 excepted penalties in the game. 11 on seattle. >> cris: a collision with earl thomas and larry fitzgerald well past five yards. >> referee: penalty declined. >> cris: one of the things that happens when you try to bring that pressure, you have to play man coverage behind it.

that means your safety here, earl thomas, has to come up and play man coverage on larry jits fer ald. that one a little overly aggressive lp. >> al: floyd made that catch, went through his legs. so he's out for the moment. ball at the 48 yard line. here goes johnson. flung back as he crosses midfield by kam chancellor. gain of three. >> cris: kam chancellor looks like a linebacker here taking on this block. controlling. gets arms extended. sherman forces him to cut back in, chancellor makes the play. you did wonder what seattle's record would have been if a kam chancellor played in those first two ball games when he was holding out. >> al: one in st. louis and the other in green bay.

second and seven. play clock at two. and caught by jaron brown. brown was able to snatch it out of the air. >> cris: i don't think richard sherman can believe it. he could not have jumped this route any better. watch him undercut this thing. he knows exactly what's going on. he's reading the quarterback. and somehow brown tips it to himself. what a play. >> al: yep. when floyd came out. it was jaron brown who came in. 9:40 to go in regulation. palmer's going to go deep downfield. that one's out of bounds. it's jaron brown again. but well out. coverage by sherman.

second down and ten. >> cris: look at some of the pressure inside here. marcus dobbs working against cooper. they raul make a little sandwich on that one. >> al: 25 of 42. 314 yards. play clock is three. snapped it. >> cris: look out. >> al: he gets h s hit as he th. that's chris avril. >> cris: avril saw that clock ticking down. he knew they had to go. he beat bobbie massie off the ball and just had a straight line shot. good smart play right over here. clock is ticking. he knew exactly. got off the ball and almost got another strip back.

>> al: you see that thing at double zero. you're coming. >> cris: that was close. >> al: third down and ten. this time good protection and a flag is thrown intended for britain golden. he's their number five guy. as he was over the middle. and again another conference. 19 accepted penalties in the game. respect defense number 54. five yard penalty. automatic first down. >> al: so 12 penalties on seattle, 8 on arizona. the flag keeps the drive alive. >> cris: obviously no contact after five yards. this is well down the field. that's a little contact. so you know, it's just unnatural for a linebacker not to hit

oolgts wide receiver running in his space. that was huge. >> al: at the 34 yard line now. ninth play of the drive coming. pressure. sliding out. caught. jaron brown. and he's out of bounds at the 14 yard line. earl thomas stops him there. go the michele. >> michele: michael floyd has a left hamstring. he's questionable. line democrat backer bruce irvin for seattle has a right knee issue. he's questionable. both of those injuries could ultimately affect in drive. >> al: very much so. floyd after he came out after he made that catch, then jaron brown who has been a big part of the last three or four plays, he comes in to take his spot. tenth play of the drive coming up.

david johnson flanks palmer in the backfield. to the 14. carson throws at the end zone. it's caught for a touchdown by gresham. jermaine gresham juggled for an instant. hauls it in. touchdown. arizona takes the lead again. >> cris: i tell you, what a drive by carson palmer. after all that he went through in the prior two or three drives to hang in there. and there's gresham, the guy that he said, you want to pick somebody to talk about that's made a difference for us, coming off of the back surgery, got it just over the hands of earl thomas who has three interceptions. one tonight. what a drive. that was as impressive a drive and tough drive out of a quarterback as i've seen in a little while. >> al: palmer said watch for gresham to start making some noise. his first touchdown of the season. katt

catanzaro getting ready to kick the extra point. before that -- >> referee: false start. five-year penalty. >> al: 33 yard conversion because of a frostee rucker penalty now becomes a 38th extra point. >> cris: remember, they went for two twice. so just keep a track of those two points as we go along here pretty early in the ball game. >> al: catanzaro for the extra point. and that one is good with 8:41 to go. and a wild one. what else? it's sunday night. nothing but wild ones this season. (gps) ♪ recalculating shortest route ♪

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40, but a seattle defense the last two touchdowns. and now you've got a short kick and lockett juggles it. picks it back up and gets surrounded by a passel of white shirts at the 8 yard line. we go back to the super bowl, you go back to the four games this season fourth quarter leads, losses after having the lead, rams, packers in the first two weeks of the season. then you have the overtime loss at cincinnati. then they lost to the panthers on the touchdown pass to greg olsen from cam newton to keep carolina unbeaten at this point and they still are. so from the 9 yard line now, russell wilson will go to work on a night when he has 9 out of 23.

you start with lynch. marshawn keeps on chugging. turns no gain into a pickup of about three out to the 12 yard line. >> cris: like trying to tackle a pyramid. it just feels like you can't get him off his feet. there's so many times that he makes hits from multiple directions and just does not go down. beast mode is appropriate for this guy. you know, who doesn't go down with all that? >> al: second down and six up at the 13. wilson finds s an opening. gets away. down the sidelines. doug baldwin has gotten free. russell wilson does so well. looks like he's going to be trapped, sacked, starts to move forward, finds the open guy. >> cris: what happens is you have to react to russell wilson. the defender in coverage acts up, then russell wilson just

flips it over the top of him. >> al: at the 28 to the 41 yard line. off the play fake. fires, caught, into seattle territory. baldwin again tackled by mathieu. first down. >> cris: this doug baldwin is probably the toughest minded guy on this team. and he will not ever let the guys in the wide receiver room complain about not catching enough balls or touchdowns or any of that stuff. he says if we have to block every play, we block every play. >> al: seven catches for baldwin. played his college football at stanford. >> cris: very much the leader of that wide receiver room. >> al: and wilson. this time he's able to fire it away. rodney gunter almost had a sack. he, i think, was inside the tackle box. they'll talk about this as he slung it away. >> cris: i don't know about that

one. >> al: arians wants it. >> cris: flag's down. he did take a step left. >> al: the tackle box is the imaginary line that extends from the tackle's back -- >> referee: offense number 3. ball replaced at the spot of the foul. brings up second down. >> cris: russell wilson ran around so much he felt like he had to have been out of the tackle box. he's out, then back in, right on the line. >> al: the pass winds up in -- >> cris: no wonder carson palmer says he feels like he has a hangover coming out of here. >> al: second down and 23.