Given the off-season attention devoted to it, the running game was surprisingly absent from the Seahawks’ opening 27-24 loss in Denver. Or maybe it wasn’t surprising.
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.
Despite the 45-3 win ove North Dakota, Huskies QB Jake Browning said they didn’t dominate, and it was partly his fault. But his back up, Jake Haener, did well. Controversy?
A Sports Illustrated story lays bare Seahawks fractures. Two conclusions: Carroll can’t claim there’s no double standard, and Wilson needs to have the backs of his teammates.
One off-season isn’t enough to return the Seahawks to the the top shelf. But if overlooked guys such as WR Brandon Marshall, 34, do the unexpected, Seattle could surprise.
After a futile holdout, Earl Thomas returned to the Seahawks. But will he stay? Thomas may not be able to play well while distracted, much like another Seattle star — Randy Johnson.
Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer, the sons of former Sonics owner Barry Ackerley and the boss of Amazon Web Services are among the minority owners of Seattle’s proposed team.
The Seahawks trimmed the roster to 53 Saturday, leaving the Griffin brothers and the kickers as the most compelling story lines of 2018. Jon Ryan needs to return as court jester.
Losing 21-16 to Auburn, a bad play call made worse was the pivot point thwarting the Huskies’ breakthrough bid for a win over an SEC powerhouse.
A dreary 30-19 loss to the Raiders left the Seahawks winless in the preseason for the first time in club history; the more foreboding personnel news came earlier in the week.
Mocked for their soft non-conference schedules, the Huskies get a shot at a big-boy SEC foe in the opener. But a loss to a good foe early is hardly a risk. It sure beats playing Idaho.