GLENDALE — Crazy what a half (or quarter) can do.
After looking out of sorts early on in the Arizona Cardinals’ 23-20 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday, Marvin Harrison Jr. got his groove back.
He ended the evening with six catches on 11 targets for 66 yards and a touchdown.
Unfortunately, it was too little, too late.
It all started with a couple of second-half snags.
But it was the incredible fourth-quarter touchdown snag that really rejuvenated the young wideout in real time.
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Needing a score to stay in it, quarterback Kyler Murray continued to look Harrison’s way when it counted most.
Murray put it in the tight window and Harrison did the rest on the 16-yard touchdown.
He followed it up with another critical catch on Arizona’s final drive of the evening to set up an eventual Emari Demercado score.
“The response was fantastic. … I’m not worried about Marv at all. He’s going to be just fine. I thought he played faster today, too.”
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“The response was fantastic. I thought he lit it up in the second half absolutely,” head coach Jonathan Gannon said postgame. “He got going in the second half, got involved, made some big-time plays — the touchdown catch was a big-time play.
“I’m not worried about Marv at all. He’s going to be just fine. I thought he played faster today, too. That’s what I told him, that’s what I wanted to see. … Just let it rip and play fast. I thought he did that. He’s resilient just like that whole crew is.”
Harrison’s quarterback also isn’t giving up on his No. 1 wide receiver by any means.
“He needs me, I need him,” Murray said postgame. “This is a team sport. … He’s not coming out of the game, you know what I’m saying? I don’t want him to come out of the game, so we got to get this going. And that that’s really just what it is.
“That’s just conversations on the sideline, keeping his confidence up and again the other receivers and everybody around them, we’re all in it together.”
But just as it looked like the Cardinals might have came back from what started as an atrocious showing on the national stage, a gifted short kick penalty gave Seattle an advantageous spot at its 40-yard line.
A 22-yard catch by Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba and a run by running back Zach Charbonnet was just about all the Seahawks needed to finish things off with a game-winning field goal.
It was the second straight week Arizona lost on a walk-off kick by its opponent.
