Seahawks gambled they could make Drew Nowak a starting center and Cary Williams a starting cornerback. Wrong. But Pete Carroll does not seem to let pride get in the way of change.
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.
Despite a record-setting effort Sunday from the Steelers’ Ben Roethlisberger, the Seahawks coach believes it was a one-off that was not indicative of a failing defense.
Record numbers for Wilson, Baldwin and the passing game covered for the absences of Lynch and Graham, and followed an earlier in-game scolding from Beast Mode,
Given how he plays, how is it possible that RB Marshawn Lynch has never had surgery until now? Don’t assume that Beast Mode’s days are over in Seattle just yet.
Huskies coach Chris Petersen saw the Apple Cup as a bigger deal than Mike Leach. So he invited UW legends, including Sixkiller, Moon and Milloy, to explain what had to happen.
Given the upgrades at Washington State in facilities and coaching, this Apple Cup may be the Huskies’ last chance to beat the Cougars before the dynasty is astride the state.
The rookie running back is sufficiently sensational to draw a comparison to Earl Campbell from Pete Carroll. The Seahawks coach backtracked a bit, but his point is not too far-fetched.
Thomas Rawls and Tyler Lockett were sensational, but it took QB Russell Wilson regaining form for the Seahwks offense to look as if the season may emerge from mediocrity.
Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch was held out of the game with the 49ers Sunday due to a continuing problem with a strained muscle in his abdomen. He was included on the team’s seven-player list of inactives issued before the game, which also included LB Bruce Irvin (knee) and WR Paul Richardson (hamstring).
Some would like to assign the falloff of Russell Wilson to the siren Ciara, but Greek mythology is no match for an offensive line that is the worst in the NFL.