Cardinals...26 Seahawks...20
SEATTLE — The Arizona Cardinals’ rewriting of their sorry history has now written off Seattle.
Kurt Warner completed 32 of 44 passes for 395 yards -- his franchise-record fourth straight 300-yard game -- and J.J. Arrington scored two touchdowns as Arizona held off the desperate Seahawks in a 26-20 victory to essentially knock Seattle from its NFC West throne.
Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald combined for 23 catches and 337 yards receiving for the Cardinals, who are 7-3 for the first time since 1977, when they were in St. Louis. Arizona can clinch its first division title since 1975 next week when it plays host to the Giants and San Francisco is at Dallas.
Seattle’s loss handed exiting Mike Holmgren the first 2-8 start in his 17 years as a head coach. Holmgren has announced he will take a sabbatical from football in 2009.
Quoteworthy: “We’re not idiots. We can do the math.†-- Matt Hasselbeck, quarterback of the 2-8 Seahawks
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