Most Improved Teams 2012

Progress can be judged in a variety of ways. A team’s record can improve. They can make the playoffs. They can go farther in the playoffs. Seattle did all of those things in 2012, and also demonstrated statistical improvement that had them, once again, among the most improved teams...
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Seahawks Off-Season Priorities & Early Free Agent Targets

The proper order of events following the end of the season is to review what happened, dive into each position group, scout for the draft, look at free agents and then make some well-informed projections about what genius General Manager John Schneider will do. All those things will happen...
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Abraham Injury May Be Bigger Than Clemons Absence

Atlanta Falcons defensive end John Abraham injured his left ankle in the last game of the regular season versus the Tampa Bay Bucs. It has been assumed since he practiced in a limited basis earlier this week that he would be fine to play against the Seahawks. Jason LaCanfora...
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PODCAST: Previewing Falcons/Seahawks With Softy

I was able to distract Softy long enough from the Sonics news to talk a little Seahawks. We covered the win against the Redskins, the impact of the Clemons and Hauschka injuries, and what I expect against the Falcons. ***DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST*** **SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES** Alternatively, here are instructions to subscribe...
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Early Thoughts On Trading Matt Flynn, Drafting Matt Barkley

Everyone has Seahawks backup quarterback Matt Flynn on the first bus out of town this off-season. The logic goes that Russell Wilson is a quarterback deity, so what’s the point of spending “all this money,” on Flynn who will never play? I will explain why that logic is flawed...
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The Night After: Seahawks Bow Out, Lose 30-28 To Falcons

My son sat silently next to me on the drive back from an impromptu trip to Five Guys where we attempted to drown our sorrows in oil and grease. “Don’t ever let depression get a hold of you,” I told him. “It’s the most useless emotional state to be...
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Seahawks All-Pro Goodness

Championships are won by great teams, and those great teams must include dominant players. The Pro Bowl  is one measure of a player’s performance, but the selection process is terribly flawed. A better benchmark is All-Pro performers. The All-Pro team has it’s own selection flaws, but it offers the benefit...
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These Teams Played Not So Long Ago

Many Redskins fans wanted to remind folks in Seattle that Washington had beat the Seahawks in CenturyLink field just a year ago with Rex Grossman at quarterback. The problem with that logic was that both teams were significantly different, at least on offense, than the ones that matched up...
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Thoughts On Bradley, Bevell, & The Ripple Effect

Both Seattle coordinators are looking more and more likely to land somewhere other than Seattle next season. There seems to be a fair amount of hand-wringing going on among Seahawks fans on how that will impact the team next year. Much of that angst is misplaced. Gus Bradley and...
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Go Ahead, Lean Forward

I had a Seahawks pen growing up that had a rubber stamp on the cap shaped like a football. Every day I would position the pen on the edge of a desk, karate chop one side of it to send it flipping into the air, and then caught it,...
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Falcons vs Read Option

Listen to people that follow the Falcons, and you are likely to hear a myth being propagated. The story goes something like this: someone asks the Falcons expert how the team will handle Russell Wilson and the read option, and the expert replies that the Falcons faced Cam Newton twice,...
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First Look: Atlanta Falcons Are No Joke

Getting to face the Atlanta Falcons in the playoffs is like getting a bye week, right? All they do is lose. Russell Wilson has more playoff wins than Matt Ryan. Seattle is the hottest team in the NFL, so this should be a cake walk. It is possible for...
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