Ahead of the playoff game, Coach Pete Carroll acknowledged the burden of the Super Bowl loss, and his overestimation of a young offensive line. Yet: “We did it. We made it.”
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.
Marshawn Lynch returned to practice Wednesday. Lynch is a revered figure in the locker room, so there was no second-guessing his decision to rehab in Oakland with trainers he knew.
Mild and wet for for most of fall and early winter, the weather in the Twin Cities turns mega-brisk Sunday, with a high of zero just in time for the Seahawks Vikings game.
RB Marshawn Lynch worked out Monday for the first time since his abdominal surgery Nov. 25. Coach Pete Carroll anticipates Beast Mode will be ready to play Sunday in the playoffs.
In beating the Cardinals 36-6, the Seahawks set up themselves for the playoffs, all on the road, with a third consecutive big road win — with the best defense for the fourth year in a row.
TE Willson, RG Sweezy definitely out Sunday, Okung likely to miss. Carroll won’t say who plays right guard, but he say he anticipates the return of the Beast Monday.
Rams made the Seahawks’ offense one-dimensional Sunday. Without Marshawn Lynch, same could happen against Arizona. Which would leave the Seahawks 0-4 vs. their NFC West rivals.
The Seahawks did something appealing, then something appalling, for the sports year’s high point and low point — in a two-week span. But there was so much more of each . . .
Neither Seahawks coach Pete Carroll nor Arizona coach Bruce Arians will throttle back in Sunday’s match in Glendale. And the Seahawks might have the services of Beast Mode.
Their running-backs-by-subcommittee held to 60 yards, the Seahawks suddenly look vulnerable as they head to Arizona needing a quality outing ahead of the playoffs.