Only Cleveland has allowed more sacks than 0-2 Seattle (Credit: USA Today) The season's hopes are draining away fast. Starting with two road games is tough, but the Broncos and the Bears were both beatable teams coming off terrible 2017 campaigns. Injuries have exacerbated the impact of high-profile veteran departures on defense. The secondary remains decent, but a poor pass rush and rookie linebackers have let mediocre Bears and Broncs passers carve us up like roast poultry. So far, Mike Solari's revamped O-line has proven as porous as its predecessors--Tom Cable's deservedly mal ..read more

Coach Chuck Knox confers on the sideline with quarterback Dave Krieg, c. 1989 (Credit: Bellingham Herald) An old-school badass, Coach Knox seized the reins in Seattle in 1983 and wasted no time remaking the team in his winning image: a smashmouth, run-first offense, coupled with a bruising, larcenous defensive juggernaut. Ground Chuck's journeymen run-blockers paved the way for halfback Curt Warner, whose ankle-busting cuts froze and frustrated hapless defenders. To compensate for an offensive line far less adept at pass blocking, Knox boldly benched fan favorite Jim Zorn in fav ..read more

The Seahawks just jettisoned All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman & Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Bennett (Credit: Seattle Times) This is madness. Trading Michael Bennett for nearly nothing makes no sense. Cutting Richard Sherman makes even less sense. In addition to degrading roster talent, these personnel decisions eliminate long-established locker room leaders, imperil team identity and morale, and threaten the winning legacy of Coach Pete Carroll. In nine years with the team, Carroll worked with General Manager John Schneider to build the best defense in team and league his ..read more

Choke Machine #7 strikes out again (Source: 24/7 Sports) Blair Walsh did not blow the game yesterday. Seahawk coaches should know by now not to bet games on the erratic kicker's foot. Seattle's final drive began on their own 25-yard line with 2:18 remaining. Always clutch in the 4th quarter, Russell Wilson promptly completed two 20+ yard passes to Doug Baldwin and Jimmy Graham.This gave the Seahawks 1st down on the Arizona 31 at the 2:00 warning--plenty of time to continue the drive. Instead, Seattle coaches reverted to inexplicable conservatism: A vanilla handoff netted just ..read more

Dallas owner Jerry Jones with All-Pro domestic abuser Ezekiel Elliott (Photo Credit: ESPN) Most NFL games are mere mercenary bouts with little on the line but civic pride. But there are real moral dimensions to Sunday's Seahawk-Cowboy showdown. Back in 2015, Seattle faced a Dallas team then coddling Greg Hardy, a defensive end whom Carolina had cut for getting caught throttling his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. Two years later, the Cowboys continue to harbor bad men who hurt women. Sunday will mark the return of All-Pro running back Ezekiel Elliott from a six-game suspen ..read more

The Seahawks battled valiantly in Jacksonville last week and nearly pulled out a win. Seattle defenders had every right to crash into the Jaguars' victory formation in hopes of forcing a fumble, but--no matter how dirty the Jaguar O-Line played--Michael Bennett brought enduring shame upon our city and team by taking outrageous cheap shots at the Jacksonville center's knees both before and after the whistle. The NFL should suspend Bennett and any other player who so obviously attempts to inflict gratuitous and potentially crippling injuries on opponents--and couple those suspensions with ..read more

Seattle's Legion of Boom: Ajax, Achilles & Odysseus (Credit: AC) Despair has spread across Hawkdom, for many good reasons: 1. In the second quarter of that pyhrric victory over Arizona, the Legion of Boom lost its Achilles. With apt poetic injustice, a heel injury felled our team's best player. Like the nigh-invincible warrior of Homeric myth, Richard Sherman dominated the left half of Seattle's defense over the course of an epic 99-game starting streak. Early on, opposing offenses quickly learned not to throw Sherm's way; quarterbacks who dared test him usually came to regret th ..read more

This article explains why Richard Sherman wanted out of Seattle, and why the Legion of Boom resents Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. I hope they can work it out ..read more

Everyone remembers the bobbled snap, but that night in January 2007 aptly encapsulated Tony Romo's career. Read the story here ..read more

Seattle fullback Marcel Reece (Photo Credit: Seattle Times) In order to beat Atlanta today, Seattle needs to sustain the strengths that defeated Detroit last week, After a season of troubled gestation, our offensive line improbably came together and came to life, manhandling Lion linemen and linebackers to make running room for a finally-healthy Thomas Rawls. Even our tight ends blocked well, but the secret sauce in our revitalized ground game is late-season arrival Marcel Reece. Though new to the team, the fullback is an old hand in Tom Cable's run scheme, by virtue of their commo ..read more