Carroll said he talked to nearly every Seahawk on the flight to St. Louis, and he said the players understood the need for the trade. Winning, of course, would help all forget.
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 Harvin debacle rests with the coach and GM, and its residue compromised the Seahawks’ first half and cost the game Sunday. Feel free to own up, gents.
The outcome was the same, only the names of some of the purple victims changed. Petersen’s success at Boise State against Oregon was not apparent Saturday in Eugene.
Warren Moon said Percy Harvin was “a different guy . . . emotional, sensitve,” whose presence from the start was resented by the Seahawks receivers.
Harvin’s astonishing trade another example of coaches who think, or maybe hope, they know players, yet don’t. At least Seahawks were smart enough to accept a sunk cost.
Petersen earned UW job partly on his 2-0 record at Boise State vs. Oregon. If he ends the blight on the Huskies soul, he will be elevated to Saint of Montlake.
Apparently, FOX blinked Friday in its dispute with Seattle’s KCPQ Channel 13, ending for now the network’s attempt to buy the station from its owner, Tribune Media Co. In exchange for more revenue from annual operations, FOX agreed to extend its affiliation, which includes nine Seahawks games this season, through July 2018.
Petersen won’t be divulging either passion or plan for the game at Oregon Saturday. But as a former Ducks assistant, he knows well the antagoism in the rivalry.
Seahawks’ failure to find a way to better use RB Marshawn Lynch just one of several failings that opened the way for the Cowboys to stun Seattle at the Clink.
While the defense had its way with Cal, Cyler Miles delivered a much-improved QB effort in a 31-7 triumph. Now he has to do more than repeat it Saturday in Eugene.