In addition to the absence of Cliff Avril, the Seahawks defense will also be missing his roster replacement, DE Quinton Jefferson, who broke his hand 20 minutes into his first practice Wednesday and will be out four weeks or so. “Right off the bat” in a pass-rush drill, coach Pete Carroll said after practice Friday.
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.
The attrition that compromised the Seahawks run game in 2016 is showing up again. Thomas Rawls and Eddie Lacy will get their chance Sunday to do something about it.
LT Rees Odhiambo is OK after a night in the hospital. His reward is to come back to face the Rams’ defensive front that includes the NFL’s best player, Aaron Donald.
After a setback season, GM Jerry Dipoto and manager Scott Servais outlined the plan to close the gap with the Astros and work around the decline of Felix Hernandez.
Seahawks RB Chris Carson will have ankle surgery Tuesday and be out at least eight weeks. DE Cliff Avril had a neck stinger, which may keep him out Sunday.
Chris Petersen isn’t happy about Washington’s TV-dictated night games (7:45 p.m. Saturday), but it is TV revenues that keep him the state’s highest paid employee.
Russell’s Wilson’s 23-yard scramble for a touchdown was the spark to light a 36-point half for a Seahawks offense that languished, then exploded.
Jake Browning switched a call on a 4th-and-10 play and it worked brilliantly, helping Washington leave the doldrums and the Beavers behind in a 42-7 win in Corvallis Saturday.
16th-ranked Washington State pulled off one of the greatest wins in Cougars history, controlling the game and downing USC 30-27 on national TV in Pullman Friday night.
After reviewing hundreds of videos, the Clark County sheriff contradicted Michael Bennett, saying his officers acted “appropriately andprofessionally” in detaining the Seahawks star.