After a game-opening gaffe, the Huskies pulled it together behind an improved passing game to beat Arizona State for only the second time in the past 13 meetings.
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.
Seahawks could have three in O-line Sunday who didn’t start in their positions a week earlier. Not a help to OC Brian Schottenheimer, who says he must do better.
Carroll blames his own impatience for dubious playcalling, but somebody still has to block the pass rush of the Dallas Cowboys, who seek to add to Wilson’s league-leading 12.
Three coaching errors contributed to mystery and misplay in the loss in Chicago. Russell Wilson is clearly pressing, but coaches and teammates have to come through too.
In a 24-17 loss to Chicago, QB Russell Wilson and coach Pete Carroll made critical errors that helped waste a surprisingly effective performance by an undermanned defense.
All three of Utah’s 4th-quarter possessions began in Washington territory, and the Utes came away with zero points as the defense shone in a 21-7 triumph in Salt Lake City.
Injuries on defense were so numerous,the Seahawks cut DT Tom Johnson to make room to re-sign Shalom Luani. Also, newcomer LB Mychal Kendricks talked with reporters.
Despite the fact that he just pleaded guilty in federal court to making $1.2 million from illegal insider trading, the Seahawks signed LB Mychal Kendricks. Bad idea.
In a season rich in awkwardness, the Mariners have lost the race, and still have to pay Felix Hernandez $27M next season. Time for him to get used to the bullpen.
The Seahawks had little run production Sunday, but the wide receivers combined for just seven catches. Monday they face DE Khalil Mack, who’s even better than Denver’s Von Miller.