The Seahawks, who play at 9-3 Philadelphia Sunday, have won only one game in franchise history in Week 14 or later against a winning team in the Eastern time zone.
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.
The Mariners are committing $57 million to Nelson Cruz over the next four years, but Cruz has never been a great hitter within the AL West. That has to change.
Seattle CB Richard Sherman’s celebrity usually gets more attention than his athleticism, but he has become one of the most accomplished pick artists of the Super Bowl era.
The Seahawks parlayed a stifling defense, an error-free game by Russell Wilson and 104 rushing yards by Marshawn Lynch into a 19-3 win over San Francisco Thursday night.
The Seahawks have won only three games in franchise history in which their quarterback was sacked seven or more times. Russell Wilson has quarterbacked two of them.
The Seahawks used four Steven Hauschka field goals, a third-quarter TD from Russell Wilson to Cooper Helfet, and a dominating defense to defeat division-leading Arizona 19-3.
The Arizona Cardinals have surpassed the Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers as the dominant team in the NFC West. Arizona and Seattle play Sunday at CenturyLink Field.
With five division games remaining, Seattle still has math on its side. But history works against the Seahawks, who wouldn’t be a playoff team if the season ended today.
The Seahawks (6-4) twice flopped on fourth down when they had scoring chances Sunday and lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 24-20 at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Seahawks face the toughest road to the postseason of any team in the NFC. Seattle begins the gauntlet Sunday morning at Arrowhead Stadium.