In the wake of a 17-12 upset loss to the New York Giants and backup QB Colt McCoy, Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll apparently aren’t on the same page. That won’t do.
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.
Stanford isn’t a great team in 2020, but they played Washington’s game better than the Huskies did. The 31-26 loss exposed a defense weaker than coach Jimmy Lake imagined.
WR Josh Gordon is eligible to play for Seahawks Dec. 27 vs. the Rams, and RB Rashaad Penny could be back Monday. For Seahawks fans, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
It’s December, time when the Seahawks get good. And look what’s happened — the defense shows up. As do some bad teams. How convenient.
The plan was to bait DK Metcalf into distraction and misplay. Didn’t work. What did work in the Seahawks’ 23-17 win was the defense, whose renaissance continues.
Seahawks had good news from the weekend’s results, but the NFL offered bad news to all when it forced the Broncos, because of virus violations, to play without a QB. Brutal.
A spectacular second half followed a bad first half, as the Huskies ran off 24 unanswered points to stun Utah. QB Dylan Morris made the play of the night by solving a mistake.
Weird things keep happening to the Pac-12, including Oregon State’s upset of the 15th-ranked Ducks. You’ll never guess why the Huskies game with Utah isn’t in Salt Lake City.
The 3-6-1 Eagles’ travail behind QB Carson Wentz is another reminder of the incredible fortune the Seahawks have had with Russell Wilson (and his health): “You got to be sturdy.”
After Arizona State said it couldn’t muster 53 players, Utah was joined up with fellow free agent Washington for a little post-holiday get-together Saturday night at Husky Stadium.