Instant impressions after the Seahawks beat the Cardinals 17-3 to improve to 5-4:

Drew Lock was a gamer

“Gamer” is an incredibly general term to describe a football player. It has no specific definition but everyone seems to understand the meaning. It’s someone who plays through — or with — some sort of ailment or injury. It could be someone dealing with adversity. Or it could be someone simply making the plays that are needed in the moment they are called upon.

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Drew Lock was a gamer on Sunday. His right elbow is quite clearly not right and Seattle’s entire offensive game plan seemed to take that into account. He appeared to injure his right side or hip during the third quarter, grabbing at that part of his body after a rollout pass and seemed to bother him any time he needed to exert himself on a play the rest of the game.

Considering the limitations and the opponent, the task for Lock became to simply not lose the game. Which he did.…