Despite key injuries, the Seahawks defense pulled together so well Sunday that they made the NFL’s No. 1 scoring offense “look normal,” coach Pete Carroll said Monday.
Author: Art Thiel
Art Thiel
Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time. Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didnt seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody. Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNWs creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom. A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.
Big buzz in the house, high energy on defense and Russell Wilson . . . oh, my. “Phenomenal,” said coach Pete Carroll, which may have been an understatement.
As injuries turn the Seahawks secondary into the Legion of Whom, Earl Thomas told rookie Shaquill Griffin to step into leadership. Just as rookie Richard Sherman did six years ago.
After Thursday’s dominant win over Houston to advance to the MLS Cup to defend their title, the Sounders’ 2-5-4 start is hardly remembered. It was all part of the plan.
Not long after Cliff Avril helped Michael Bennett through an ordeal, Bennett is returning the favor with his good friend by helping him navigate a career-threatening health trauma.
The 2017 Eagles look quite a bit like the 2013 Seahawks when they were 10-1. But age, injuries and salary cap travail have conspired to send the Seahawks into decline.
Coach Pete Carroll made it official Monday: Defensive stars Kam Chancellor and Cliff Avril are done for the season, ahead of Sunday’s game vs. the 10-1 Eagles.
Needed Sunday by the Seahawks were visible signs of improvement by the re-made secondary and the offensive line. They made it so, as well scoring a win over the forlorn 49ers.
The Huskies were good, but the Cougars were so bad in the Apple Cup that one wonders how Washington State pulled off its 9-3 record.
If you have no animals in this hunt, like me, it’s hard not to see why the Cougars, at this point in the Apple Cup’s century-long saga, richly deserve a triumph.