Truth to tell, the Seahawks, along with many other NFL players, don’t like Thursday games because of the lack of rest. But they are more equipped than most to deal with 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.
Despite a modest 20 points, Pete Carroll saw enough good things Sunday to proclaim progress, particularly since Russell Wilson had sufficient protection to make quality passes.
A “greased-ball” game of blunders finally went the Seahawks’ way when, as usual, QB Russell Wilson took over amid the mayhem to keep the flawed Seahawks clean at home.
It’s simple: Ducks are faster at virtually every position than the Huskies, and there’s no way to beat that except through years of better recruiting.
Injuries at O-line and tight end made the passing attack mediocre, and QB Russell Wilson more vulnerable. Now the Colts have provided a template in how to beat the Seahawks.
Just when you think Mariners-world can’t get more bizarre, ownership asked Lou Piniella to manage the club again. Eleven years after Piniella asked out of the Mariners partly because he could no longer deal with CEO Howard Lincoln and president Chuck Armstrong, they put on a “full-court press” to woo him back, an unidentified source
Sarkisian is doing his best to manage the mania to beat the Ducks. But there’s no denying that after nine years of humiliation, a ripe, $281 million moment is upon the Huskies.
Stanford coach David Shaw’s harsh rebuttal and Steve Sarkisian’s steely stare over alleged fake injuries has created a JV “What’s Your Deal? Bowl “spawned by Harbaugh and Carroll.
Four starters missing from the O-line has created “leakage,” according to Pete Carroll, meaning QB Russell Wilson isn’t getting the time to convert third downs.
Seahawks did a lot of things right, but few occurred on third down, when the game was decided. Diminished offensive line puts too much pressure on Wilson to save games.