Allowing 16.5 points per game overall after ceding only 33 in their past five games, the Seahawks have a chance to lead the NFL in scoring defense for the third consecutive year.
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.
In only eight games in NFL history did a team rack up more than 500 total yards and simultaneously hold its opponent to fewer than seven points on the road.
The Seahawks, favored by eight, put together their best performance of the year in overwhelming Arizona Sunday night to take over first place in the NFC West.
The Seahawks Sunday night face Ryan Lindley, a quarterback dismissed by handicappers. But the Seahawks still need to score, always a problem against Arizona.
Only once in Seahawks history has Seattle had a defensive stretch as dominant as the current four-game run, That was 30 years ago in the Chuck Knox era.
By defeating San Francisco 17-7, the Seahawks have put themselves in position to claim the NFC’s No. 1 seed, meaning home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Rod Belcher, an iconic broadcaster who witnessed some of the most memorable sporting events in Seattle history, died Friday at 94.
The Seahawks are 10-point picks over San Francisco, but they have struggled before when installed as a double-digit favorite. Remember Tampa Bay last year?
Not even the 2013 Super Bowl champion Seahawks had a more dominating defensive run than this year’s Seahawks have put together in the past three weeks.
The Seahawks recorded their best defensive performance since the Super Bowl in stuffing the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday afternoon.