Critics of Pete Carroll’s playcalling say he’s wasting Russell Wilson’s peak years by not relying on him more. Really? The Seahawks need him to do less, not more.
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 49ers and Chiefs make for a great Super Bowl matchup, but from a Seattle what-if perspective, it’s . . . well, as Marshawn Lynch would put it, it’s hard on y’alls mentals.
As a third manager gets axed in the fallout from the Astros’ signal-stealing scandal, Commissioner Rob Manfred’s punishments overlook some principal figures.
Seahawks defense’s failure to disrupt opposing QBs led to passel of close games that relied too much on Russell Wilson. Can’t someone in blue get after those guys?
After three long touchdown drives in the second half, Russell Wilson was poised for a fourth and a win. But it was still Lambeau, still Aaron Rodgers, and the season is done.
Lambeau in January. No better theater for pro football. But the weather will be far less of a factor than the Seahawks being worn down and beat up.
If neither Duane Brown or George Fant is healthy, stepping in at left tackle from the practice squad is Chad Wheeler, former all-Pac-12 tackle at USC who hasn’t played this season.
Yes, Mike Leach made a winner out of Cougars football. But what exactly did he do to deserve a promotion to the SEC and a raise? Denigrate and blame his players?
When his shocking hire away from USC was announced, Pete Carroll took to the podium at Seahawks HQ to explain himself in nearly 12 minutes of uninterrupted rhetorical glory.
The Packers at Lambeau Field in January — it doesn’t get better for newcomer FS Quandre Diggs. Who makes the Seahawks’ chances to win a whole lot better.