The Seahawks did some anticipated housekeeping Tuesday, perhaps a signal of a breakthrough in the pursuit of DE Jadeveon Clowney -- or to welcome his successor in the Seahawks' desperate attempt to fix a passive pass rush.

The NFL also did some anticipated housekeeping Tuesday: As the traditional beacon for the "more is better" school of sports economics, owners officially voted to expand playoffs for the 2020 post-season -- presuming there is one -- that adds two more teams, one per conference, and reduces by one the number of first-round byes.

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Seattle's stadium district is about to get back to action.  As a hospital.

A temporary, 148-bed field hospital for non-COVID-19 patients, to relieve pressure on Seattle's hospitals dealing with the pandemic, will be built in CenturyLink Field's Event Center by the U.S. Army, officials said Friday afternoon.

About 300 soldiers from the 627th Hospital Center at Colorado’s Fort Carson arrived at Boeing Field Friday will create and staff the facility "soon," according to a news release from the City of Seattle.

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The player Seahawks fans loved to lament, RT Germain Ifedi, left for the Chicago Bears on a one-year deal Tuesday, according to NFL.com. The 31st pick in the 2016 draft was as durable as he was frustrating, for his propensity to hold, and to start falsely.

Once the Seahawks last summer decided against picking up his fifth-year option for 2020, it was nearly a foregone conclusion, barring a breakthrough, that Ifedi would enter free agency.

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One stick at a time, the Seahawks are attempting to improve their beaver dam, Tuesday signing former Patriots WR Phillip Dorsett to a one-year free agent deal. Another former first-round pick with a disappointing NFL career, Dorsett's speed (4.33-second 40 time at the 2015 combine, same as DK Metcalf in 2019) makes him a strong candidate for Seattle's third receiver spot behind Tyler Lockett and Metcalf.

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If you thought the Seahawks through the first week of free agency forgot they were the NFL's 26th-ranked defense, they offered a bit of a remedy Monday. Seattle traded a fifth-round pick to Washington for five-year veteran Quinton Dunbar, who had a career-high four interceptions and was ranked the No. 2 cornerback in 2019 by Pro Football Focus.

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Something about the 2013 draft, generally regarded one of the worst in NFL history, continues to intrigue the Seahawks. Like miners late to the 1898 Klondike gold rush, they sift through the tailings in search of the overlooked nugget.

According to Pro Football Talk, general manager John Schneider pulled another hopeful out of the gravel and mud Sunday, signing free agent guard Chance Warmack, the 10th pick in 2013's first round from Alabama.

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In the official start Wednesday to the NFL free agent bazaar, the largest mystery is in Seattle.

Why doesn't DE Jadeveon Clowney have a job, with the Seahawks or another team?

To borrow Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia, Clowney seems to be a riddle wrapped in a mystery.

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U mad, bro?

That was Richard Sherman's semi-immortal post-game query to Tom Brady after the Seahawks beat the Patriots, 24-23, at the Clink in 2012, a game that created national notice that the team from South Alaska might have a little something going on.

Never mind that Sherman, who intercepted a Brady pass, thought of the question later, after he saw the post-game photo of the pair, then posted the paste-on quote to his Twitter account. Legends often transcend facts.

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Jarran Reed had a bad 2019. But 2020 is, financially anyway, looking a lot better. The Seahawks kept their defensive tackle off the free agent market by coming to terms on a two-year, $23 million contract extension, the NFL Network reported.

Tempering the news for Seahawks fans was the loss to the New York Jets of RT/TE George Fant, the former Western Kentucky basketball star they transformed into a serviceable offensive lineman who frequently served as a tight end in the jumbo package that helped make the Seahawks' rushing game among the NFL's best.

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When it comes to free agency, the Seahawks traditionally have been among the more bashful outfits in the NFL, leaning up against the gym wall at the dance before moving late and low (Ziggy Ansah).

Things held form Monday as the music started, the Seahawks making two smaller moves to secure two of their own, WR David Moore and TE Jacob Hollister.

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By a narrow margin, NFL owners have succeeded in paying a little to gain a lot -- a decade of labor peace, a 17th game starting as soon as 2021 and more playoff games in 2020 (which they could have imposed on their own).

By providing a few more jobs (rosters and practice squads grow) and a little more pay to the least-compensated players -- the bottom 20 or so on a given NFL roster -- the owners induced 51.5 percent of the union to approve a new collective bargaining agreement though 2030.

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Despite a smart, coherent, calm presentation Wednesday morning by Gov. Jay Inslee, executives of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan that was unique in civic history, my guess is there's still some skepticism about the drastic measures ordered to mitigate (not contain) COVID-19, the disease produced by novel coronavirus.

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The news wasn't a surprise, but the NFL confirmed Tuesday that the Seahawks draft next month will be a little richer -- after losing five qualifying free agents last year and signing two, they gained a net of three compensatory draft picks.

The Seahawks added a pick in the third round (101st overall), fourth (144) and sixth (214), giving them eight in the seven-round cattle call April 23-25, this year in Las Vegas.

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My most recent pro sports locker-room media scrum came in January in the visitors' quarters at Green Bay's Lambeau Field. I was about eight feet from Marshawn Lynch when he offered prophecy worthy of the Oracle of Delphi.

As you may recall, following the 28-23 playoff loss to the Packers that ended the Seahawks season, Lynch ascended the altar and offered a rare, pithy encyclical directed primarily at younger NFL players.

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Whatever your opinion of the XFL’s quality of play, you’re probably at least intrigued by some of the new league’s novel rule tweaks, from stop-action kickoffs to booth-mandated replays to multiple-choice PATs.

Give the XFL credit for having the nerve to re-think the rulebook. I just wish the league would have gone one step further and addressed the most irritating, unsatisfying judgment call in all of football: The dreaded break-the-plane touchdown.

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At the moment, quiet apprehension fills the Seattle sports scene. Football is over, and so is Washington's college basketball's home seasons. The Mariners are away at spring training. But high school winter sports are building to their annual climaxes. The Sounders opened their MLS season Sunday with a win at the Clink in front of a typical crowd of 40,126.

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No greater example exists in NFL history for the thin margin between an 11-5 regular season record and 5-11 than the 2019 Seahawks. They were the second team in league annals to win 10 games by one score (eight points or less), tying the 1978 Houston Oilers.

Also tied, in knots, were the stomachs of Seahawks fans, astonished how mediocre a good team can be, and how delightful a mediocre can be, in course of a single season. Or in consecutive weeks. Or in consecutive plays.

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Preliminary congratulations are in order for the NFL and its players union. The sides apparently have agreed upon a new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement without public threats of a strike or other unseemly caterwauling. If you want to join the celebration, party favors should include a big, fat doobie.

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Considering they reached the second round of the playoffs with what amounted to a fifth-string tight end (Jacob Hollister) and fourth-string running back (Marshawn Lynch), the Seahawks have a whole lot of personnel business to tend to this off-season.

Which explains a bit of why they jumped a month ahead of the March 18 commencement of regular free agency Tuesday, announcing the signing of TE Greg Olsen, an oft-injured former Carolina Panthers star, to a one-year deal Tuesday worth $7 million, with $5.5 million guaranteed, according to ESPN.

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Observant Seahawks fans may have noticed a little something familiar in the Kansas City Chiefs' blistering comeback in the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers Sunday night.

It looked a lot like what the Seahawks did to the 49ers in the the second half of the Dec. 29 game at the Clink.

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