Wilson’s QB rating ranks in the middle of NFL starters, a remarkable feat because it makes him a lesser concern than any would have imagined at the season’s midpoint.
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.
No one wants to say it, but it’s true: Seahawks defense is young and prone to being fooled. Even Carroll admits the personnel’s best days are 2 or 3 years down the road.
The Sounders have yet to score on their playoff foes, despite playing three matches. Seahawks and Huskies are 4-4. Will somebody please bust a move around here?
Washington coach Steve Sarkisian says the schedule will provide no breaks, but that’s easy for him to say. His players, just as Cal’s players, can’t help themselves.
Losers of three in a row and widely disrespected, the Huskies pounded the ball early and pounded the Beavers all night in a 20-17 upset, Oregon State’s first loss.
With a 15-month runway to his retirement, Stern’s farewell agenda includes a make-up to Seattle, not for reasons of fairness or justice, but to buff up the legacy.
The ticket-price-increase snafu prompted an apology from the Mariners, but the franchise pathos goes beyond anger to sadness and pity.
WR Doug Baldwin is out of Sunday’s game in Detroit with a bum ankle, meaning the Seahawks’ weakest position is even more vulnerable.
Washington under Sarkisian has lost at least 3 conference games in a row each year, and rallied. Now it has to be against unbeaten Oregon State, with Keith Price still a puzzle.