One game left, and for one team, so much is on the line. "We're anticipating by far their best game of the year," Bruce Arians said about the Seahawks. "It's a playoff game for them." This is true. The Seahawks have to win and have the Falcons lose at home against the Panthers to make it to the playoffs for a sixth straight season.

The Cardinals could spoil that. We'll see how it goes.

"I keep telling our guys it's a playoff game for us but I didn't really feel a playoff this week for us," Arians said. "I think we're ready to play, but the playoffs are so different."

The Cards have never really had a problem getting up for the game in Seattle. I mean, last year, the Cards were already eliminated and they still went out and played well — woefully undermanned on the offensive line — and beat the Seahawks. But the Seahawks knew they were already going to win the division. There was no urgency on their part. That'll be different. It could have an impact.

-- The Cards, however, did win last year. Their offensive line, to jog your memory, was John Wetzel at left tackle, Mike Iupati at left guard, A.Q. Shipley at center, Taylor Boggs at right guard and Earl Watford at right tackle. Boggs even got hurt, forcing rookie center Evan Boehm to fill in.

This year, it's rookie Will Holden-Alex Boone-Shipley-Boehm-Wetzel (unless Watford is healthy enough to come back and start.) So what does last year's win mean?

"Just to let them know it can be done," Arians said. "It's just a matter of going out and beating your guy one-on-one."

-- The secondary was torn up last year too, with Tony Jefferson getting hurt early and Marcus Cooper down (and Tyrann Mathieu already on IR), so Brandon Williams was playing cornerback and Justin Bethel and Harlan Miller were out there. Looking back, it was indeed an impressive performance — knowing, of course, the offense had both Carson Palmer and David Johnson. Those two are on IR this year, so …

-- As of right now, the Cardinals are picking 13th — right where they were choosing in the first round last year. My cursory math says they could pick as high as 11 (if they lose and a couple of other teams win), and as low as 18 (with a win and certain teams lose), but likely somewhere in between. We'll see how that turns out.

-- As for next year's opponents, those are already set. The Cardinals have — of course, judging in December of 2017, long before next year's rosters are set and injuries happen — a rough road schedule next year.

-- Of all the records and plateaus Larry Fitzgerald has reached this season, there isn't really anything out there in this game — save for his catch streak, which will reach 211 games and equal Tony Gonzalez for the second-longest ever. Fitz has a chance to lead the league in catches for a second straight season, however. He has 101 receptions, which trails Miami's Jarvis Landry by two. Landry and the Dolphins play at home against Buffalo, which is trying to make the playoffs.

-- A win, and Arians becomes the all-time winningest coach in franchise history, snapping the tie he has with former coach Ken Whisenhunt. Before Whisenhunt was hired by the Cardinals, he was close with Arians — Whisenhunt was the Steelers' offensive coordinator, Arians was the quarterbacks coach. They lived in the same neighborhood, played a lot of golf together. Whisenhunt tried to hire Arians on his Cardinals' staff at one point.

Both have 49 total wins — Arians 48 in the regular season, one in the playoffs, with Whisenhunt's split at 45-4.

"To say I played for the all-time winningest coach and the second all-time winningest coach, that's not really that good but it's saying I was part of the best era in Cardinals history," Fitzgerald said. "That's pretty cool."

-- A lot could happen this offseason. But first, we go to Seattle.