way that they wanted it to go Cortez Kennedy Color Rush Jersey , but I think it would have been reasonable to see this coming. In my preseason preview of the NFC, here’s what I wrote about the Cardinals season before I predicted them to finish 4-12:Arizona is now one win away from making my prediction come true or one loss away from finishing with a slightly worse record that will guarantee them something that they’ve never had before: The number one pick in the draft and potentially, Nick Bosa. The team either standing in their way or rushing to get the door for them is of course the Seattle Seahawks.As I wrote earlier this week, it is important for the Seahawks to win, as a guarantee of the 5-seed could be key to any playoff run. That’s why we should expect them to go about business as usual unless they get ahead early enough to start pulling starters and keeping them healthy for a wild card trip to Dallas. However, if Seattle should lose, it could also potentially change the Cards’ plans dramatically.Rumor has it that the franchise is expected to fire first-year head coach Steve Wilks after the game, putting him back on the market for a job on defense. (Should Ron Rivera keep his job with the Carolina Panthers, a reunion may be in order.) Things have gotten to the point that Wilks is now openly joking about how he didn’t get a podium at the press conference this week.But doomed or not, Wilks has one more game to coach. It’s a road divisional game against a playoff team with something to fight for and if Arizona’s management was being completely logical, then they already knew they handed Wilks a roster that could not compete for the playoffs. Not with Sam Bradford, Mike Glennon, and Josh Rosen at quarterback. Perhaps not with a GM who may be the real culprit, as he’s the one who handed a running back a $39 million extension before even securing a competent offensive line. He’s the one that continued to support Bradford’s great great great great grandchildren’s college fund despite zero evidence that he’s a quality starter and without a team around the quarterback that’s good enough to make him look halfway decent. He’s the one who hung back in the 2017 draft and took Haason Reddick at 13, as the Kansas City Chiefs jumped over them for Patrick Mahomes and the Houston Texans leaped ‘em for Deshaun Watson.When they fired Bruce Arians Shaun Alexander Color Rush Jersey , maybe they were doing him a favor.All of which is neither here no there as it applies to Steve Keim, but what if Wilks takes Keim’s weak roster into Seattle on Sunday and wins? What if Rosen has his first game of the season with a passer rating over 90? What if the Arizona defense holds a team under 90 rushing yards for the first time all year and does so against the number one rushing team? After all, the Cardinals were a field goal away from potentially beating the Seahawks in their earlier matchup of the season.Would that be enough for Wilks to get a second season, as most coaches do? As Jon Gruden will, not that the Oakland Raiders have any choice. As Pat Shurmur likely will. Kyle Shanahan’s certain to get a third season, and he’s likely on his way to a 10-22 career record, 4-20 without Jimmy Garoppolo. Maybe the Cardinals will have that same Week 17 miracle magic that they had in 2003, when a 3-12 Arizona team defeated a 9-6 Minnesota Vikings team 18-17 on the final play, keeping the Vikings from the playoffs. That throw by Josh McCown also kept the Cardinals from picking first overall in the draft for the first time. The good news is that they still got Larry Fitzgerald at three. It could still be argued that’s not as good as their other option at the time, Eli Manning, who the San Diego Chargers drafted and then immediately traded to the New York Giants for a nice haul of picks. Maybe Eli refuses to go to Arizona too, in which case, maybe they also get a nice haul of picks and then still get Fitzgerald or Philip Rivers, though they passed on Rivers once.Should the Cards lose, they’ll be guaranteed the number one pick Jarran Reed Color Rush Jersey , and they can get Bosa, someone else, or trade down. Should the Seahawks falter, other teams will have the opportunity to move ahead of them in the draft.Arizona can pick anywhere from one to three, making them the only team guaranteed a top-3 slot. However, if they win and the San Francisco 49ers lose, as they’re expected to against the LA Rams, then the 49ers could pick first. And if the Cardinals and Niners both come away with upset wins, while the New York Jets drop a game at New England, also expected, then the Jets will pick first. That is the best scenario for the NFC West and also the least likely.A Seattle win keeps things simple: Arizona will pick first and if the rumors are true, will fire Wilks shortly after. I still think that Keim is potentially the bigger issue (or at least, the second-biggest issue after ownership), but it seems that they’re going to go on the hunt for the second time in a year.A Seattle loss though and the Cards could potentially lose the number one pick and give Wilks a second chance. Arizona did fire Dave McGinnis after that McCown miracle, but he’d been trending the wrong way for awhile Nick Vannett Color Rush Jersey , having gone 13-28 in his first 2.5 years with the team prior to 2003.This game means something for the Seahawks, but it potentially means even more for the Cardinals, and more than one person in the organization, certainly not Wilks, is rooting for a loss. Jerry Jones is trying to remain supportive of a Dallas Cowboys offense that has shown only fleeting moments of promise through three weeks of the season.Eight points in the opener and 13 points on Sunday won’t be enough to get victories on the road no matter how well the Cowboys play on defense.“I do think that we do have the talent and I do think that we have the coaching that can get us on the right track offensively,” Jones said. “We will get on the right track offensively, I’m sure.”The Cowboys offensive issues 鈥?specifically in the passing game 鈥?were exposed again in their 24-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.Dak Prescott threw for 168 yards and a touchdown, but most of those came in the fourth quarter when the Cowboys were trying to rally. He averaged just 4.9 yards per pass attempt and the Cowboys were rarely able to push the ball downfield against Seattle’s secondary. The longest pass play was a 20-yarder to tight end Geoff Swaim. The longest catch by a wide receiver was an 18-yarder to Cole Beasley.“We did not do a good enough job of staying ahead of the chains, controlling the line of scrimmage in the passing game like we would have wanted to,” Dallas coach Jason Garrett said. “We did a better job of rallying at the end but certainly not good enough.”The Cowboys trailed 24-6 before finally finding the end zone on Prescott’s shovel pass to Tavon Austin midway through the fourth quarter. It was the one bit of innovation in an otherwise stagnant offensive game plan that should have yielded more success considering how well Elliott was doing on the ground.Elliott rushed for 127 yards on just 16 carries, but even his longest run of the game ended up in disaster for the Cowboys when he fumbled deep in Seattle’s end, getting hit from behind by safety Bradley McDougald.“Our defense started out really great, and we had them on the field too long and they got worn down. We only scored three points in the first half. We’ve got to do better than that,” Elliott said.Seattle found a formula that worked, getting 102 yards rushing from Chris Carson Justin Britt Color Rush Jersey , two touchdown passes from Russell Wilson and two interceptions from unhappy safety Earl Thomas. Thomas, who wants a contract extension or a trade from Seattle, even bowed to the Cowboys sideline after his second interception with 3:09 remaining ended any hopes of a rally by Dallas.Thomas even acknowledged rumors floating around that he could be traded soon and Sunday could have been his last game in Seattle.“I don’t know if it was but I had a damn good time and I’ll go out like that if I have to,” Thomas said.Here’s what else to know from both teams moving to 1-2 for the season:UNDER PROTECTION: Wilson had the cleanest pocket to throw from at any point this season. Seattle’s offensive line that had allowed 12 sacks in the first two weeks neutralized the Dallas pass rush and allowed Wilson time to find receivers. Wilson was sacked only twice, one of those when he was tackled at the line of scrimmage. For his part, Wilson made smart, decisive decisions on his throws and didn’t show the hesitations that had thrown off the timing of Seattle’s pass game the first two weeks.INJURY CONCERN: The Cowboys had one significant injury concern to come out of the loss when linebacker Sean Lee aggravated an already troublesome hamstring injury and missed most of the second half. Lee had 11 tackles before being forced to the sideline because of the injury. He had been rotating with rookie Leighton Vander Esch, who also finished with 11 tackles.“It feels like the same deal but I have to get (evaluated) and see where I’m at,” Lee said.CENTURY MARK: Carson’s 102 yards rushing and his touchdown were major milestones for a Seattle run game that’s been absent for more than a season.Carson was the first running back to top 100 yards in the regular season since Thomas Rawls rushed for 106 yards in December 2016 against Carolina. Carson’s TD run was the first by a Seahawks running back since J.D. McKissic found the end zone on a 31-yard run in Week 4 of the 2017 season. Seattle went 14 games without a running back finding the end zone until Carson bulled his way in with 12:54 remaining.FUN WITH NUMBERS: For the first time since 2010, Dallas did not start 2-1 through three games. The Cowboys started 0-2 in 2010, won their third game, and then dropped five straight. 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