Down 20-6 early in the fourth quarter on Thursday night, the Cardinals found their footing and stormed all the way back to tie the Seahawks with 28 seconds left.

But Arizona’s special teams unit cost them in the cruelest of ways.

Specifically, Cardinals kicker Chad Ryland’s ensuing low and short kickoff to Seattle was penalized after it failed to reach the landing zone — between the 20-yard line and the goal line per the NFL’s dynamic kickoff rules instituted last season — and set up the Seahawks at their own 40.

Chad Ryland kicks a field goal during the first quarter of the Cardinals’ 23-20 home loss to Seahawks. Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images

Seattle did not blow the good field position.

After one incompletion, Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold connected with wideout Jaxon Smith-Njigba

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