Seahawks defense allowed Bills to convert 12 of 17 third downs, including a third-and-21 in the final two minutes. They still won, but it’s the biggest worry heading into the New England game Sunday.
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.
In a game landscape of bewilderment and incompetence, TE Jimmy Graham broke through with two spectacular TD catches and a hurdle of a would-be tackler. Another Seahawks Monday night miracle.
Obliterating Cal with 38 unanswered points, while No. 4 Texas A&M lost, set No. 5 Washington to move up in the CFP poll. And it also teed up a large to-do Saturday with USC, winner of 5 in a row.
Former Seahawks WR Percy Harvin has come out of retirement to play for the Bills in the Monday night game at the Clink. For the Seahawks, LT Bradley Sowell is out, but Carroll isn’t saying who’s in.
Russell Wilson owned up Friday to how limited he has been because of injuries, and that the Seahawks have been lucky the division is sufficiently weak that the season hasn’t gotten away from Seattle..
It’s about midseason, which is usually when the Seahawks pick it up. Training wheels are being put away, and the O-line and backs will be called upon to get something done Monday.
The Huskies’ fifth-place spot in the CFP rankings is one behind Texas A&M, where former AD Scott Woodward now works. His scheduling hurt the Huskies, but also may have provided incentive.
Russell Wilson couldn’t throw deep Sunday, nor could he run well. But he missed a victory by about one foot. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll thinks a turnaround is not far away.
The Seahawks were justified in their bellyaching about officiating, but their junior varsity offense was responsible for putting Seattle in a hole requiring competent officiating.
On a day when Utah’s defense made it a priority to harass QB Jake Browning, RB Myles Gaskin picked up the slack. And Browning should win a few Heisman Trophy votes for his precision punting.