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Thoughts Heading Into Arizona Game

There was a moment last year where former 710 radio host Mike Salk talked about being scared of the Cardinals in the game that was due to be played in Century Link Field a few days later. He was a good sport about how foolish it sounded to be scared after the...
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Seattle P-I and HawkBlogger.com Announce Partnership

I moved to Seattle in 1997, after growing up in Portland and going to school in Washington D.C. My first two priorities after finding a place to live were: (1) buying Seahawks season tickets (2) subscribing to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Reading the paper every morning has been a ritual for...
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Power Rankings

Hawk Blogger 2013 Power Rankings: Week 6

THIS WEEK The top five is an interesting bunch. Seattle is the only one to make an improvement this week. Their game was sloppy, but the ranking formula does not care. They lowered their opponent passer rating, points against, and opponent yards per carry. The Chiefs, meanwhile, won convincingly on...
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Advanced Stats

Seahawks Trends Worth Turning Around

Seattle has not only started the season with injuries to significant players, they have yet to run the same team out on the field two weeks in a row. Cliff Avril, Chris Clemons, Russell Okung, Max Unger, Breno Giacomini, Brandon Browner, Bruce Irvin and Zach Miller have all missed games....
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Wide Receivers

The Intersection Between Scheme And Performance

Sidney Rice has 10 receptions in five games. He is pulling in $8.5M this year. Luke Willson has a 70% catch rate and is averaging nearly 15 yards per catch. He has as many targets (10) as Rice does receptions. Stephen Williams showed enough unique and valuable potential throughout training...
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