Pete Carroll said the 2016 Seahawks have “a chance” to be his best team ever, citing Wilson’s leadership, an improving line and the always stout defense, just two weeks after a loss to the Rams.
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 fifth-ranked Huskies will be working in media silence ahead of the clash with Oregon Saturday because coach Chris Petersen thinks his players have too much on their plates. Like, you know, school.
For two gimpy guys, QB Russell Wilson and TE Jimmy Graham ran their gurneys over the Jets 27-17 Sunday in another display of substantial growth of the Seahawks offense.
Washington’s 44-6 romp over No. 7-ranked Stanford Friday night represented the largest margin of victory by a Husky team over a Top 10 opponent in program history.
He’ll wear a brace, but QB Russll Wilson said he’s a full go for Sunday in New York. Rookie first-round pick RG Germain Ifedi will make his first NFL start, and new RB C.J. Spiller likely will see action.
In 2001, the Mariners and Huskies reached pinnacles. After that they fell hard, fast and a good long way. This weekend, both could reach national relevance again.
Russell Wilson seems to be moving well enough to keep his job Sunday in New York. Despite a positive showing in the rout of San Francisco, rookie backup Trevone Boykin will remain holstered.
Disclosure last week of Chris Hansen’s final purchase of land for his dormant Sodo Arena project wasn’t a big deal in itself. But it helps illuminate a way forward for a plan different than the five-year-old MOU.
Along with RB Christine Michael, TE Jimmy Graham signaled he’s ready to compete for comeback story of the year with six catches and 100 yards in Sunday’s triumph.
Coach Pete Carroll is so far buying into Russell Wilson’s knee-ligament sprain is manageable enough to play on Sunday in New York. But RB Thomas Rawls will be out several weeks.