You could hear the frustration in Kyler Murray's voice when he talked about the Cardinals defense getting "stop after stop after stop" and Murray's offense not being able to make things happen. An offense that is "too all over the place," Murray said.

The Seahawks are good. That defensive front is for real, and will be a problem for the immediate future for everyone else in the NFC West. Yet that game was there, even with all the Cardinals' flaws. As the players started posting on social media afterward, the acknowledgement that despite the difficult loss, there would be a bounceback.

Even Murray emphasized he was optimistic. (Which is admirable after the Cardinals became the first team to lose two games in a five-day span on a game-winning field goal either on the final play of regulation or overtime since at least 1970. It's been a painful week.)

You can't say the Cardinals don't make it interesting. Four games, four games that came down to the final possession. That's hard to do, regardless whether you are winning or losing. Not easy on the fanbase, understandably.

Also not easy – when the fans see what the Cardinals did late with the passing game, and wonder why it didn't/couldn't happen earlier. Murray and his unit wonder the same.

Jonathan Gannon though, acknowledged that even with whatever late success there was, that the Cardinals needed to take a "hard look" at what they were doing. There's a couple extra days to do that before the Titans come in.

Back-to-back losses in the division hurt. The margin for error has shrunk. But it is still there.

-- Calais Campbell admitted he ran out of gas in the second half, the downside of playing on a short week at 39 years old. He came out of the game in the fourth quarter briefly after a play, but insisted he'd be OK. The first half, he was great yet again, notching his third sack of the season – noteworthy that the first time he sacked a Seahawk was in Week 6 of 2009 – and making a great tackle for loss on a screen pass. And then he was playing with his kids on the field after the game.

-- The Cardinals ran 11 personnel on 54 of 64 offensive plays Sunday night, and only one snap with 13 personnel. When fourth tight end Travis Vokolek was deemed inactive, that was a tell.

"What they've shown, going into the game, you play them in a phone booth, you're not going to like the result," Gannon said. "That was part of the game plan."

-- Wide receiver Michael Wilson made perhaps the finest 5-yard catch ever, converting a fourth-and-4 when he barely got his head around on a Murray throw and somehow corralled the pass with just his arm at first. It must be seen for the full effect.

-- I am a Emari Demercado fan, so to see him bounce back with a TD catch after last week's drop was good to see.

-- The question was asked why, if Will Hernandez was going to miss the first four games anyway – which he did – why the Cardinals just didn't leave him on the PUP list. But a reminder that had they done that, Hernandez not just would've missed games but he wouldn't have been able to practice either – and his rehab would have been delayed. That's what guys like BJ Ojulari and Walter Nolen III face; they have not practice in months and still are going to have to ramp up before they play.

-- Getting Nolen back might be a big deal depending on what happens with Darius Robinson. He left with a chest injury. We won't have any details probably for a couple of days, but a chest injury can be a pectoral injury. It'll be one to watch.

-- Not only did Larry Fitzgerald make it through to the initial 128 Hall of Fame candidate list for 2026, so too did eight other players who played for the Cardinals – including Adrian Wilson (my bad for not noting that earlier), Anquan Boldin and Larry Centers.

-- Trey Benson will have bigger days as RB1, and he played solid with his limited opportunities against an excellent run defense. But his biggest play of the game might've been jumping on the Seahawks fumble after Coby Bryant intercepted Kyler Murray and then lost the ball on the same play.

-- The last word goes to tackle Paris Johnson Jr.

"It's the same talk every week. It's the finish."

That's all for tonight.