The Morning After: Seahawks Snipe Cardinals With A Bazooka, Win 34-22

Logo by Kevin Gamache, Hammerhead  Go big, or go home. The Seahawks decided they preferred to do both Thursday night. In what was their most dominant performance of the season, relative to opponent and setting, Seattle dominated so thoroughly that two turnovers inside their own 20-yard line barely figured into...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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First and Crown Fantasy League: The Royal BALTYs Reign On

It had been a rough season for the BALTYs, who started out 1-3, but have managed to climb back to 3-3 after a two-game winning streak. The dual threat at running back of Reggie Bush and Jamaal Charles has been powering a very consistent group, but the weakness at...
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The Morning After: Seahawks Claw To 5-1, Beat Titans 20-13

Logo by Kevin Gamache, Hammerhead  Titans are elder gods in Greek mythology. There massive and powerful, and seemingly completely unrelated to anything in Tennessee. That was what I thought until witnessing this game on Sunday. Seahawks fans got to see what their team looked like playing with a Titan on...
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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...
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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...
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Russell Wilson: An Inconvenient Truth

Brock Huard spent a good chunk of his radio show with Danny O’Neil yesterday railing against what he referred to as “Wilson Haters.” The qualifications of becoming a Wilson Hater, from what I could tell, was anyone that thought: (a) the passing game could be better (b) the passing...
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When 2005 = 2013

Most Seahawks fans use the 2005 season as the benchmark to which all other Seahawks teams should be measured. After all, they came closest to the ultimate prize. Mike Holmgren’s 2005 team was known for it’s offense. Specifically, the ground game behind Walter Jones and Steve Hutchinson became legendary....
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