The Seattle Seahawks travel to division rival Arizona on Thursday night, with both teams sitting at 2-1 and seeking to stay close to undefeated San Francisco in the NFC West in the opening game of Week 4.
Both teams' lone loss this season came to the 49ers in games that went down to the wire, so this shapes up as a critical early-season battle to avoid suffering another divisional loss.
ODDS AND TRENDS
The Seahawks, who have won the last seven meetings against the Crdinals, are a consensus 1.5-point favorite and enter with a seven-game winning road streak. That includes a 30-18 win in Glendale, Ariz., last December in a game in which Cardinals quarterback Kyle Murray threw a pair of interceptions against a pair of touchdowns and was also sacked twice.
BetRivers reported that 81 percent