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Author: Doug Farrar
Doug Farrar
A Seattle resident since 1985, Doug Farrar has written about football since 2001. In 2006, he became Football Outsiders first West Coast draft pick, which allowed him to help spread the word about sabermetrics in football, write a weekly X-and-O column called Cover-3, cover the last four scouting combines, contribute to the last five editions of the Pro Football Prospectus/Football Outsiders Almanac series, and write several pieces for ESPN.com and ESPN the magazine. Doug moved from Coke to Pepsi in September 2009 when Yahoo! Sports invited him to add content to the Shutdown Corner blog, which covers all things NFL. Doug has also written several articles for Yahoos main NFL site, including a summer 2010 series called Under Surveillance, which examined the playbooks and play calls of every NFL team. Football is Dougs first, but not only, sports passion. Hes also written about baseball since that long-lost era when the Mariners were a playoff contender. In the summer of 2010, he covered the U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee for Yahoo. When hes not watching ridiculous amounts of game tape and consulting stat spreadsheets, you might find Doug indulging his inner Carl Spackler at one of the Eastsides finer municipal golf courses.
No. 1 pick much more adept as NFL QB than pundits expected
The Seahawks tested out some new attitudes –teamwork, mentorship, resilience — and the upshot was an upset
On the road in and in the heat, the Seahawks stumbled quickly and reverted to ’09 form
After years of Seahawks vanilla, Carroll has added new defensive flavors
New coaches, new players, new wrinkles and a fresh outcome
Sean Locklear was the Seahawks’ left tackle of the future. Now, he’s just trying to keep his job.
The New England Patriots teams that won three Super Bowls in four seasons in the early part of the new millennium were as good at mixing specialization and versatility as any team in recent memory. Receiver Troy Brown proved to be a willing and able defensive back in tight situations, and linebacker Mike Vrabel was one of Tom Brady’s best red zone targets for a number of years. For the Seattle Seahawks of 2010, where a roster sheet in hand is mandatory to know who you’re talking to after one of the biggest roster purges in franchise history, double duty…
Nearly all first round picks are in; Okung not among them, and it will hurt
In major remake, Hawks give up proven producers for unknowns; too much too soon?