NFC West Week 16 Primer: It all comes down to this
Dec 19, 2014, 1:07 AM | Updated: 1:07 am
Fifteen weeks in the books, two games to go.
With the laughable amount of injuries the Arizona Cardinals have suffered this season, you won’t find too many people (outside the organization) that thought they’d be hosting a game that amounts to an NFC West championship game this Sunday.
But that’s exactly what they’re doing. The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks come to town for a nationally-televised Sunday night matchup at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The Cardinals will take the field with Ryan Lindley at quarterback — a player who wasn’t even on their roster six weeks ago. Lindley was cut in training camp and found a spot on the San Diego Chargers practice squad until November 11, when the Cardinals, faced with life without Carson Palmer, brought him back.
This is storybook stuff — Lindley has a chance to give the Cardinals homefield advantage throughout the playoffs in what will be only his fifth NFL start, and first since 2012.
Earlier Sunday, the other two teams in the division — the San Francisco 49ers and St. Louis Rams — will do what they in the industry call “play out the string.”
Here are some pertinent questions surrounding the matchups in the NFC West this weekend.