Given the bleakness that attended the performance of the offensive line, the Seahawks didn’t deserve to win. At the same time, they can say beyond all question that they didn’t deserve to lose Sunday’s season-opening game in Green Bay because of two phantom calls on what proved to be the biggest play in another traditionally lamentable Sunday afternoon for Seattle at Lambeau Field.
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.
Washington’s 64-7 whipping of FCS Montana would have been drearily routine except for a passel of spectacular plays by the Huskies Saturday night.
As auspicious an opener as the Seahawks have Sunday in Green Bay, the New England Patriots opened the NFL season Thursday night with a suspicious one. Suspicious, in that if the one true thing that was known about the season was false, what else is at risk? The Pats aren’t likely to remain as bad as they looked in the 42-27 loss at home to the Kansas City Chiefs. My guess is that coach Bill Belichick is already on the phone to the Boston Red Sox, seeking to borrow their Apple watches.
When a cop drew his gun, a handcuffed Michael Bennett feared for his life. The Las Vegas police dismiss his claim of profiling as they “explained the episode to him.” Really?
The next Sports Salon Sept. 12 is not to be missed: Seahawks punter Jon Ryan has agreed to appear in a vat of whipped cream. Well, not exactly. But he hasn’t said no, either.
Since Malik McDowell’s ATV accident, the Seahawks have actively sought his D-line replacement. Monday they introduced Sheldon Richardson as the dude. “It’s crazy here,” he said.
The strip-sack hit that QB Jake Browning took against Rutgers was a bone-rattler for the ages, but he quickly reported to coach Petersen: “I was up in two seconds.” Tough kid.
For the Seahawks, the biggest development of the weekend was getting help for next weekend — breaking the spell Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has over Seattle’s defense.
Special teams and a remade secondary carried the evening when Washington’s lines often lost the battle, salvaging a 30-14 win over Rutgers that wasn’t the blowout expected.
The Seahawks made another move Friday, sending short-timer CB Tramaine Brock to Minnesota for a seventh-round pick. Rosters must be down to 53 by 1 p.m. Saturday.