Sehawsks’ Russell Wilson is the only quarterback since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger to post 20 or more games of two touchdown passes and no interceptions.
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
Doug Baldwin always bristled at the suggestion that Seattle’s receivers are “pedestrian.” Over the past two weeks, Baldwin and the Seahawks offense has done something about it.
Over 40 seasons, the Seahawks have defeated an eight-win team on the road only eight times. They face 8-3 Minnesota Sunday in the Twin Cities.
Only three quarterbacks in NFL history threw five touchdown passes on their birthdays. Two of them have more in common than you might suspect.
Thomas Rawls and Tyler Lockett produced a unique feat in Seahawks history Sunday, and Rawls made his way on to a statistical list that includes several NFL icons.
Having chosen to spend their dollars elsewhere, the Seahawks are saddled with an offensive line that has compromised the offense and worn out the defense.
QB Russell Wilson’s ratings in the fourth quarter and in the red zone have eroded significantly since his rookie year, leaving the Seahawks a playoff longshot.
The Seahawks haven’t faced Arizona quarterback Carson Palmer since December of 2013 when he beat them despite throwing four interceptions.
Leading the Pac-12 in scoring defense (16.9), the Huskies will get one of their biggest tests Saturday when they face senior RB Devontae Booker of the Utah Utes.
The Seahawks delivered an admirable defensive performance against the Dallas Cowboys, but they haven’t beaten an elite quarterback in the regular season in more than a year.