Evan Mathis, who interviewed with the Seahawks Saturday, accepted Tuesday a one-year deal from the Denver Broncos to help protect QB Peyton Manning. The contract for the two-time Pro Bowl guard was reported to be about $4 million with incentives, too much for the salary-cap strapped Seahawks.
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.
Barring the unforeseen, the Seahawks seem to have decided on newbies for three offensive-line positions, including center, where Drew Nowak has ascended — after a fateful conversation with John Schneider.
As the Mariners were blowing another big lead, manager Lloyd McClendon gave the ball to an unlikely reliever, newcomer Logan Kensing, who promptly gave up a two-run homer. Then the story turned.
Sacks were down, but so were rushing yards as the Seahawks’ re-jiggered offensive line had its first outing together Friday night in Kansas City, where the Chiefs won 14-13.
A question of who-told-what-to-whom has University of Washington football coach Chris Petersen ensnared in the fallout from a sexual assault conviction Thursday in Waco, TX., of a former Boise State player who transferred from Petersen’s old school to Baylor University, where the assault was committed.
Seahawks go up against a serious pass rush in Kansas City with three offensive linemen starting in unaccustomed positions. And you thought exhibition games were boring.
After the need to use Rodney and Beimel fails spectacularly, it’s apparent Mariners, despite a $130 million payroll, can’t find enough players to win major league games consistently.
Practice contact is so limited by NFL rules that four fake games are the only chance to see players at full speed. And with so many missing from Legion of Boom, the 2015 mystery deepens.
The feel-good story of the Seahawks summer, war vet and ex-Green Beret Nate Boyer, was cut Tuesday. He was unlikely to beat out incumbent long snapper Clint Gresham.
Disappointed in the pass protection in the first exhibition game Friday, Seahawks moved Justin Britt to left guard, Alvin Bailey to backup left tackle and said Garry Gilliam would start at right tackle.