Green Bay’s Rodgers is still good, but no longer the wizard who extends plays. That’s Russell Wilson, tasked with a deed the Seahawks have done once in a half-century.
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.
Thanks to record night from rookie WR DK Metcalf, the Seahawks advanced to a game in Green Bay next Sunday after grinding past the Eagles, 17-9.
Marshawn Lynch took in the playbook during a healthy week of practice. Perhaps it can be said that the Seahawks gained a first-round draft choice in January.
David Stern is seen elsewhere as a savior of the NBA, but Seattle need not apologize for seeing the former commissioner as a petty tyrant who took business too personally.
When low-profilers such as Ursua, Hollister and Homer are impact players, you know injuries have hit Seahawks hard. But it’s not nearly as bad as the Eagles’ health fortunes.
Patching together lineups compromised by injury left the Seahawks with players in unfamiliar spots. That’s how the season devolves into losses in thee of the past four.
Fantasy finish that every Seahawks fan hoped for was there. But 8 plays from the 12 produced incompletions, an uncalled foul and a massive screwup by Carroll. Niners win.
The Seahawks again reach back into their bad-boy past. LB Brian Bosworth (1987-89) will raise the 12 Flag Sunday, apparently because the game needed more hype.
As much buzz as there is for the return of Marshawn Lynch, Seahawks need Jadeveon Clowney to return to the form of the first 49ers game.
The hype around the return of Marshawn Lynch obscures the fact that the Seahawks’ most critical vulnerability is the wounded, reeling O-line.