Seattle’s five-year run of reaching the playoffs seems like fading history in the wake of its 42-7 obliteration at the hands of the Rams Sunday.
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.
Russell Wilson had three interceptions Sunday, then took his place among the NFL’s all-time fourth-quarter legends with two long-distance TD passes.
TE Jimmy Graham did next-to-nothing as a scoring threat in his first 31 games as a Seahawk. Now he’s the hottest red zone player in the NFL.
Hosting the 10-1 Eagles Sunday night, the Seahawks only once in 41-plus years have beaten a team with 10+ wins and a .900-plus win percentage.
Saturday will mark only the eighth time since 1936 that UW and WSU will face each other as AP-ranked foes. Also: Mike Leach this week delivered an epic rant against the CFP.
The Seahawks had 106 yards in penalties Monday — again — to become the first team in the Super Bowl era to have five consecutive games with 100+ penalty yards.
With a one-man band on offense and a portfolio of injuries, the Seahawks, even at 6-3 have reached a pivot point under coach Pete Carroll.
Washington and Washington State enter the Apple Cup with just four combined losses, making this one of the most high-profile games in the history of the rivalry.
The Seahawks drew 12 penalties in their 22-16 win over Arizona Thursday and are on pace to break the NFL’s single-season record.
From a statistical point of view, Washington’s 2017 defense compares favorably with the 1991 defense, considered the best in school history.