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Seahawks Mariners Sounders Pac-12 FB UW Football WSU Football Pac-12 BB UW Basketball Basketball RSS Writers Andrew Harvey Art Thiel David Eskenazi Steve Rudman Thiel: Why Julio Jones is worth it to Seahawks By Art Thiel Update: M’s Lewis out for ’a prolonged absence’ By Art Thiel Thiel: Kikuchi, M’s get the messagedo your job By Art Thiel Seattle Seahawks Thiel: Why Julio Jones is worth it to Seahawks BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 06/03/2021 In trying to work up a justification for attempting the hire of a very good but very expensive and 32-year-old player for the Seahawks’ third receiver spotmore than a hood ornament, but closer to heated leather seatsI recalled a response by Pete Carroll last week that seemed to escape attention. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Vaccines turn Hawks’ lives toward normal BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/28/2021 The NFL was the only major American sports league to pull off intact its most recent sports season, albeit without the presence of fans. Then came word this week from the league office, giddy over declining national COVID-19 infection rates due to vaccinations, that 30 of 32 teams, including the Seahawks, have "obtained approval" for full stadiums at the start of the preseason. It’s good to be the king. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: The Wilson image rehab is underway BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/26/2021 Sometime this off-season, Russell Wilson is going to have to answer some questions about why he contemplated leaving the Seahawks, yet now is happy enough to return. His responses will be intriguing, particularly in view of the continuing drama with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. Who knows? Rodgers may be clearing a figurative runway that may be around for Wilson’s flight in a year. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Healthy Taylor can make a draft look good BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/17/2021 If the Seahawks bosses were to sip a snifter of truth serum, then answer the question, the player they want to see the most out of, who has done the least, is Darrell Taylor. If he isn’t a significant contributor this fall, the failure would be a big log on the fire that posits the Seahawks over the past several years have been largely daft drafters . READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: NFL books payback for Hawks’ easy 2020 BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/13/2021 Feel free, Seahawks fans, to pine for the gilded football days days of your youth. In 2020. As you may have noticed during the pandemic, time has lost shape and form. If you can see through the mists to the past fall, you may recollect that the Seahawks started the season 5-0. It was the wildest time, the offense making #LetRussCook into a national phenomenon, while the defense staggered about as if blindfolded in a room void of sound and doors. READ MORE» COMMENTSMariners’ top pitching prospect joins Kelenic BY Art Thiel 05:01PM 05/12/2021 The Mariners’ player-personnel tradition, moving up top young talents quickly in a desperate bid for relevancy (except when hoarding MLB service time), appears to be kicking in. Per the Seattle Times, RHP Logan Gilbert, 24, the club’s top pitching prospect taken 14th overall in the 2018 MLB draft, will start Thursday’s home game against Cleveland, which is also when Jarred Kelenic, 21, is scheduled to make his big league debut. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Metcalf’s audacity wins day at the track BY Art Thiel 04:24PM 05/09/2021 Not that it wasn’t the consensus view already, but confirmed Sunday were the three most dramatic words in an NFL huddle are when Russell Wilson says to DK Metcalf, "Y’all go deep." The global track world may not be impressed with Metcalf’s 10.36-second time in the 100-meters Sunday at the Mt. San Antonio College Golden Games in Walnut, CA. But everyone who wears an NFL uniform has renewed respect for a 230-pound man hanging with world-class pro sprinters. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Metcalf seeks to hush track’s trash talk BY Art Thiel 05:00AM 05/07/2021 Of course, you’re going to watch. As a sports fan, you can’t help it. Dismiss it as a stunt, which it is. Sound wise by saying that Olympics-level sprinters are a different class of athlete than football playersnot better, just different. Fear, if you prefer, the consequences to the Seahawks if there’s an injury. But I’ll bet you a poster of Bo Jacksonthe one that was pinned above the beds of many boys, and fathers who won’t admit it, across America in the 1980sthat you’ll watch. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: What if Brady hadn’t won the Super Bowl? BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/04/2021 Watching the remarkable turbulence surrounding quarterbacks in the NFL this off-season, a curiosity emerges: What if Tom Brady hadn’t won the Super Bowl in his first year with Tampa Bay? That single development has triggered an acceleration that may become one of the greatest pivot points in NFL history. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: After subdued draft, Carroll in happy place BY Art Thiel 08:09PM 05/01/2021 Even before the 2020 regular season began, the Seahawks knew the 2021 draft for them was not going to be a celebratory sort of pre-Cinco de Mayo festival. Indeed, it turned out to be a safe and sane three days that was more of a Seafair parade, minus pirates, clowns and alcohol. They couldn’t improve on the number of picks, so the three stood as the fewest in the NFL since 1999 and a club-record low. They ended up with backup players with solid potentialWR D’Wayne Eskridge of Western Michigan , CB Tre Brown of Oklahoma and LT Stone Forsythe of Florida. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Seahawks’ celebration of acceleration BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 05/01/2021 It would be the event of Seahawks training camp. In a 40-yard dash, DK Metcalf versus the newest Seahawk, D’Wayne Eskridge. Who wins? "He’s like a semi, you know?" said Eskridge, laughing. "He moves with a whole lot of velocity. "I’m definitely going to run that race, although I’m not going to say he’ll beat me." It’s on, people. A celebration of acceleration. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: ’No great needs’ for Seahawks’ draft to fill BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 04/30/2021 With a single pick in the top 128 spots in the NFL draft, Seahawks fans Thursday night felt like the family who shows up in town the day after the circus left. To amuse them, Pete Carroll and John Schneider earlier in the day offered a token high-wire act, hiring former first-round selection DT Robert Nkemdiche, who washed out of the league in 2019. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Wilson, Carroll and NFL double standard BY Art Thiel 07:13PM 04/28/2021 Pete Carroll’s Prime Directive for nearly half a generation of Seahawks players is simple: Always protect the team. Don’t say or do anything that jeopardizes the group’s welfare. Did Russell Wilson’s first-ever public complaints about the team, abetted by his agent’s public, fully attributed suggestion of four teams to which Wilson would agree to be traded, violate the directive? READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Here’s the guy the Seahawks need to draft BY Art Thiel 06:00AM 04/23/2021 Anticipating Seahawks moves in the draft is a little like trying rescue a cat high in a tree. Every time you get close, the cat goes up another limb instead of trusting the rescuer, until you run out of ladder. Fine, you say, be a snack for eagles. And sure enough, they draft Malik McDowell, and all that’s left is kitty parts. Nevertheless, conscience demands that the try be made. When it comes to the draft, the Seahawks are always out on a limb. They need our help. READ MORE» COMMENTSUpdate: Seahawks’ Smith booked for battery BY Art Thiel 07:54PM 04/19/2021 New Seahawks pass rusher Aldon turned himself in to police Tuesday night at St. Bernard Parish Prison in Louisiana, where he was booked and released Wednesday on $25,000 bond. An arrest warrant was issued for him Monday charging second-degree battery for an incident Saturday, two days after he signed a one-year free agent deal with the Seahawks. READ MORE» COMMENTSThiel: Seahawks give...