The final 94-yard drive deservedly received the glory, but it was the Seahawks’ change early in the third quarter that set up the victory: Let Russ Cook and calm the mind.
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.
First-half collapse, followed by instant renaissance, then another last play stop of the foe before the stage is set for Seattle’s drama king and his court.
It’s hard for Pete Carroll to imagine being a good team with a bad defense. But here he is, seeking an unprecedented 5-0 start. In a weird 2020, Seahawks can go deep.
Ryan Neal gratefully took a tutorial from Kam Chancellor that helped the Seahawks defense through its crisis. It helped that Pete Carroll knocked off the blitzing.
Somehow, the Patriots confined their COVID-19 episode to one player. But it was QB Cam Newton. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll wants to know how that happened.
In a game when Wilson was human in the humidity, RB Chris Carson reminded all that the Seahawks can still gash on the ground. Defense wasn’t bad either.
The Pac-12 released its seven-game schedule Saturday. The Huskies open at Cal, the Cougars at Oregon State, both on Nov. 7.
Wilson thinks the Seahawks offense has room to improve. Huh? But credit for the start also must be given to a change in league emphasis that calls fewer holding penalties.
While patching together a banged-up secondary, Pete Carroll also had to address the NFL’s first virus breakout as well as the presidential-debate debacle. At least he’s 3-0.
Talk about timing. Pete Carroll picked the season the pandemic cut short practice to convert his offense from ground to air, where defenses haven’t been able to keep up.