For the second week in a row, Seahawks endured a sack skunk. But Pete Carroll insists the rush is not as bad as the numbers make it appear.
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.
Earl Thomas, Lamar Jacklson and friends had reason to party as the Ravens, in a stirring 30-16 beat-down, showed the Seahawks that all is not as well as 5-1 made it seem.
As was the case in Eugene a year ago, the Huskies were a few plays short of the Ducks, including one in which UW coach Chris Petersen didn’t know the rules.
The Ducks’ defense looks as bad-ass as those of the James-era Huskies. Since Jacob Eason currently is UW’s lone game-breaking talent, it falls to him to lead the upset.
Earl Thomas would enjoy getting Russell Wilson’s first interception this season Sunday. What he’d like more is getting love from Seahawks fans upon his return.
The Seahawks defense is among NFL’s worst at pressuring QBs, and the Ravens have in Lamar Jackson a yardage machine. Hello, Jarran Reed.
Pete Carroll hopes that another harrowing win by the Seahawks, 32-28 in Cleveland Sunday, is another teachable moment in a nearly absurd string of them.
4 TDs in the first 5 drives of the second half rescued a moribund start and gave the Huskies a 51-27 win at Arizona, reviving their dignity in time for Oregon Saturday.
The Seahawks’ best O-lineman, LT Duane Brown, is likely out Sunday for the game in Cleveland, as is RG D.J. Fluker. Ethan Pocic was put on injured reserve.
After the Browns gave up 275 rushing yards to the 49ers Sunday, Seahawks may as well give Chris Carson 40 carries and let Russell Wilson put up his feet.