In two weeks’ time, CB Jeremy Lane has gone from castoff to the most important guy on the field. He’s replacing Richard Sherman in the Monday night game against Atlanta.
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.
CB Byron Maxwell, cut by the Dolphins two weeks ago, signed with the Seahawks Monday to fill in for Richard Sherman. Earl Thomas is likely to return for the Monday night game.
Not only did the Cougars move ahead of the Huskies in the AP poll, they get a bye and an extra week to prepare for the Apple Cup, which will have high conference stakes.
The nation’s No. 1-ranked defense gave up 23 points in a row, as well as 166 yards to Bryce Love, as Washington abruptly crumbled and lost 30-22 at Stanford Friday.
Russell Wilson’s quick return one play after being struck on the chin and knocked down Thursday is drawing scrutiny over whether the Seahawks violated concussion protocol.
Seattler won another prime-time game but the wretchedness of Thursday night struck hard, costing Sherman the rest of his season, and the Seahawks a passel of other injuries.
Seahawks down to 3 healthy running backs behind a battered O-line in a short week. But it’s also that time of the season when Carroll’s teams pull it together.
The Seahawks lead the NFL in penalties. Part of the problem is young linemen who can’t tell when Wilson is scrambling, so they hold defenders too long.
For the Redskins’ final drive, the Seahawks played man coverage that left rookie CB Shaq Griffin without help on the deep pass. Second-guessers are having a field day.
Russell Wilson’s erratic passing game and an astonishing 16 penalties opened the door to the Redskins upset, made more ridiculous with the Seahawks’ air flutes.