As the first half came to a close and the Cardinals facing a 38-7 deficit, veteran Calais Campbell leaned over to rookie Walter Nolen III as they walked slowly to the locker room, two of the last players to get off the field. From afar, it looked like a wise veteran giving some advice to a young player who for the first time was experiencing being on the wrong side of a one-sided game.

"It was more, in these kind of games, you have to play your technique and just fight," Campbell said afterward. "It's gonna be tough to get back in, but you've got to fight.

"I don't remember exactly what I said to him, but the message to everyone is, fight. Show me your heart."

Campbell had been through a first half similar before. He was part of that 2012 team that lost 58-0 in Seattle. It felt for a moment Sunday had that chance, but in the end looked nothing like it. With the result, the fight Campbell was talking about can feel hollow. But it wasn't, even though as Paris Johnson Jr. said, the Seahawks had hoped to "demoralize" the Cardinals with the way the game was going.

It wasn't that.

But it wasn't a win, either.

As Campbell sat there, dirt on his game pants and a couple of cuts on his face, he wasn't immune to the frustration. The past of 2012 had no interest for him – "We're a better team than that team" – but he does want to see this group play like he know they can.

"We are better than we played today, but this is a results-oriented business," Campbell said. "We can be as good as we want to be, but if we don't get the wins, it don't matter. This team is capable of doing damage. But we put ourselves in such a big hole … you can't worry about the history. Now we have to play football, and find our way back."

-- Trey McBride is going to be salty with the result of Sunday's game, and that's OK. But he was excellent again. McBride finished with nine catches for 127 yards and a touchdown, extending his streak of having at least five receptions in a game up to 11. (Larry Fitzgerald has the Cardinals franchise record with 13 straight games in 2008; Travis Kelce has the NFL record for tight ends with 15 straight.) McBride had his first 100-yard game of the season. He would've had a second touchdown, but a beautifully designed underhanded shovel pass for a score was negated because of multiple offensive linemen downfield.

McBride likes Seattle. He had 12 catches for 133 yards in the Emerald City last season.

-- That the Seahawks got two nearly identical strip-sack/fumble returns by the dudes, that was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

-- Games are not won or lost in the opening moments. But Garrett Williams was exactly where he needed to be on the opening drive, step for step with Jaxson Smith-Njigba as JSN went deep – only to fall (Williams said he stepped on Njigba's foot) and allow JSN to easily collect the 43-yard bomb for a TD.

"It's frustrating," Williams said. "You did the hard part. You put yourself in position to make a play on the ball and then you don't even get a chance to see how the play ends because you step on his foot. But at the end of the day, you either make the play or you didn't."

-- The Seahawks did not have to pass a lot. Sam Darnold dropped back just 12 times. They had 198 yards rushing, their best performance of the season. (Darnold had the TD pass on the first drive, but that was it, and he threw an interception to rookie cornerback Denzel Burke.)

But for all the concern about Will Johnson and Max Melton being out – and this idea the Seahawks were going to go off – Seattle ended up with 178 passing yards, and 67 of those came on one broken-play catch-and-run by Cooper Kupp.

-- The Cardinals struggled in short yardage against that brick-wall Seattle defensive line. They finally converted a third-and-1 in the second half on a 2-yard Bam Knight run, but three times before that when the Cardinals had one yard to get a first – twice on third down, once on a fourth down – the runs were denied.

-- Coach Jonathan Gannon said there would be no lineup or staff changes after the loss.

-- Running back Emari Demercado, thanks to a 55-yard run, had a career-best 104 scrimmage yards in the game – 64 on the ground, 40 receiving.

-- Sunday was the first of at least four games quarterback Kyler Murray has to miss while on IR, and the fourth he has already missed with his foot injury. NFL.com reported that Murray's injury is not a Lisfranc injury but is a sprain that still has swelling. The report said the team originally believed the injury had a 3-to-4-week timetable, but it has not responded fully, and playing would risk reinjury.

-- Backup QB Kedon Slovis came in late to play his first NFL snaps. His lone pass was incomplete.

-- The last word comes from Williams. "Nobody came in here with even the thought of that situation being a possibility. But things happen. Now, it's what we are going to do moving forward."

That's all for tonight.