Seattle brings the Lombardi Trophy back to the desert while Arizona is still trying to figure out who's throwing it.
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SUN SEP 20 · 1:25 PM MST
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Sam Darnold doesn't have to prove anything after Super Bowl LX, but he's still the least talked-about star on this Seahawks offense. Arizona, meanwhile, walks into Week 3 with a genuine QB competition still simmering between Jacoby Brissett, Gardner Minshew and rookie Carson Beck — Brissett's the Vegas favorite for Week 1 duties despite going 1-11 as a starter a year ago. Seattle's chasing a 9th straight win in this series; Arizona's just trying to find stable footing under center.
The receiver room in Seattle is its own subplot. Cooper Kupp enters year two of his deal coming off the lightest statistical season of his career, and with Rashid Shaheed and second-year man Tory Horton pushing for more snaps, some are already calling him a regression candidate — even as Mike Macdonald pushes back hard on that read. Arizona's counter-punch is rookie running back Jeremiyah Love, the No. 3 overall pick and the highest-drafted back since Saquon Barkley, while Marvin Harrison Jr. says he's still not fully past the injuries that limited him to 12 games last season.
History isn't kind to the Cardinals here — Seattle's won the last 8 meetings and swept the season series in 2025. This one kicks off at 1:25 PM MT, and it lands early in what Arizona's coaching staff has openly framed as a foundation-building season under Mike LaFleur, not a playoff push. For Seattle it's just the next step after a February that ended with a second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba's Offensive Player of the Year campaign — 1,793 yards, 119 catches, a franchise record — is the headline reason Seattle's offense doesn't need to lean on Darnold throwing 35 times. That version of the Seahawks steamrolled through the playoffs, including a 41-6 dismantling of San Francisco and a 29-13 Super Bowl beatdown of New England. Arizona closed last season the opposite way: 5 straight losses, several of them blowouts, capped by a 20-37 finale against the Rams.
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None of that context favors Arizona on paper, but it's an early trip for a Seattle team that just won it all, and young quarterbacks have a way of playing loose with nothing to lose. Still, until the Cardinals settle their QB room and get Harrison Jr. all the way back, this profiles as a measuring-stick game for a franchise still finding its footing.
