If you can overlook the inexplicable in Sunday’s game, there’s a plain old football truth that a large Seahawks asset a year ago, Chris Carson, is drifting toward a liability.
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 Seahawks have had odd games before, but none started with the coach getting hurt pre-game. Then things grew weirder, a 33-27 loss to the Saints the weirdest of all.
BYU celebrated its national championship 35 years ago at Washington’s expense. The ’19 Huskies didn’t care, because they have Jacob Eason, and little else mattered in Provo.
Among NFL QBs, the casualty rate so far is high. In Seattle, Russell Wilson’s health and enthusiasm remain undiminished. It may be his biggest feat of all.
Absent injured star QB Drew Brees, Saints coach Sean Payton seeks to pump-fake Seahawks, suggesting he might go with a guy who’s thrown 7 NFL passes. Riiight.
New Orleans, in town Sunday, will be without injured QB Drew Brees. Backup Teddy Bridgewater likely will face Ziggy Ansah snd Jadeveon Clowney together for the first time.
Despite some pounding, Russell Wilson helped celebrate Pete Carroll’s twin milestones — 68th birthday and 100th NFL win — with stirring deeds in Pittsburgh.
After the Cal debacle, the Huskies Saturday wasted no time establishing dominance against Hawaii, unleashing this year’s heavy ordnance: Jacob Eason to Hunter Bryant.
DE Quinton Jefferson was thrilled when his hometown Steelers beat Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. Sunday he hopes to spoil the day of Pittsburgh’s fans.
Neither pass-blocking nor run-blocking well, the Seahawks’ offensive line, which didn’t play together much in preseason, didn’t look ready for the opener.