Cowboys interim QB Matt Cassel hasn’t had a banner NFL career, but he delivered one of the greatest performances by an opposing quarterback against the Seahawks five years ago.
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.
Opposing tight ends have run roughshod over the Seahawks this season, garnering three of the six highest single-game yardage totals of the Pete Carroll era.
In order to return to the Super Bowl, the Seahawks will have to turn history on its head. No team that started with four defeats in its first six games has ever reached the game.
The Legion of Boom includes three Pro Bowlers — Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor — but results have been uncharacteristically poor so far.
Rookie Thomas Rawls produced a Beast Mode-like performance in Cincinnati Sunday, but Seattle’s 17-point, fourth-quarter meltdown overshadowed his amazing effort.
After years of failing to live up to expectations, Andy Dalton has emerged as the hottest quarterback in the NFL with 9 TDs, 1 INT and a 123.0 passer rating.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson made several fantastic escape plays Monday night against Detroit, but is on pace to absorb a record pounding.
The Seahawks take a 21-8 record, the highest winning percentage in the history of the event, into their Monday Night game against the Detroit Lions at the Clink.
Jerry Dipoto needs to make a menu of changes as he takes over as GM of the Mariners. He can start by trading the team’s best hitter, slugger Nelson Cruz.
Rookie Thomas Rawls is first Seahawks undrafted free agent to rush for 100 yards in a game. Fellow rook Tyler Lockett is first to score TDs from kickoff and punt returns in same season.