CONGRATULATIONS: Kyler Murray is now recognized as the MVP player of all time Receiving a Prestigious Award…

CONGRATULATIONS: Kyler Murray is now recognized as the MVP player of all time Receiving a Prestigious Award…

The writing was on the wall for the Arizona Cardinals ahead of their Week 12 game against the Seattle Seahawks:

Handle business in Seattle and move one step closer to an NFC West title while taking the Seahawks’ postseason hopes down a notch.

Coming off the bye and armed with a dominant run game on top of a stepped-up defense against, the odds appeared in the Cardinals’ favor.

Sixty minutes later, that was far from the case.

“Not our best game. Didn’t do enough all three phases.

Give credit to Seattle. I thought they played extremely well,” head coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters postgame.

“I just told the team in there that we’re going to learn a lot from this game.

We got to get back to work tomorrow and gotta learn and improve from this game. That’s what we’ll have energy and focus to do.”

That’ll happen when the run game was as ugly as it was against a defense that was ranked 27th in the league entering Week 12.

Averaging 3.5 yards per carry, Arizona’s ground game accounted for just 49 on 14 carries.

The longest run of the afternoon was just 14 yards courtesy of Emari Demercado.

Starter James Conner, who many expected to have a big game against the suspect run defense, turned in one of his worst games of the year on seven carries for eight yards. He caught five passes for 41 yards.

It wasn’t just the run game, though, as quarterback Kyler Murray struggled through the air.

While he extended his completion streak to 20, the signal caller finished the day with 285 yards and one interception returned for a touchdown on 64.9% passing. He ran for nine more yards on two carries and was sacked five times.