Why this blog?

This is a blog for Seahawks diehards, for complete fanatics who bleed teel blue and neon lime. For maniacs who would rather lose a limb than miss a game. For true devotees who know what it means to make a profound and exclusive lifelong commitment to a team.

To my fellow diehards, I humbly offer analysis and perspectives that I find lacking elsewhere on the web.

What credentials qualify me to write about the team?

I have followed the Seahawks since 1976, their inaugural season, and I have a history of being right about the team.

For example, I knew Dave Krieg was a good quarterback, and that Seattle was foolish to waste valuable draft picks and money on Kelly Stouffer, Dan McGwire and Rick Mirer. If the team had simply kept Krieg and used those resources to shore up other positions, the Seahawks might have avoided the nosedive they entered in the early '90s.

Also, I knew Brian Bosworth was trouble. When the Seahawks "won" the supplemental draft lottery in 1987, I thought they should have traded him for someone who would have fit in with the hard hat ethos of the Chuck Knox era.


I knew that Ken Behring would be a bad owner, though I did not anticipate how cartoonishly inept and sinister his misrule would prove. I knew that Tom Flores was not the answer as GM or coach.

I knew that it was a bad idea to hire a "successful" college coach jumping ship to avoid probation resulting from a multitude of NCAA violations that he had allowed, encouraged, tolerated, and/or ignored. Successful college coaching experience may predict success as an NFL coach, but any such prediction becomes complicated when cheating plays such a large role. This logic holds as true for Pete Carroll as it did for drunk drivin' Dennis Erickson.

Finally, like many Seattlites, I was right about Hutch. When Shaun Alexander and Steve Hutchinson's contracts came up for renewal in 2006, I knew the Seahawks needed to prioritize Hutch, because the team's running success owed more to the prowess of our offensive line than it did to Alexander's running skills. Moreover, I'll take a young All-Pro guard over an aging All-Pro running back any day. I knew that the Seahawks needed to use the franchise tag as leverage to sign Hutch to a long-term deal, and that the team should have let Alexander go rather than cave in to his lavish contract demands. Instead, the team paid through the nose to keep Alexander, while Minnesota stole our best young player and the title of League's Strongest O-Line along with him. Alexander's skills faded even faster than I had feared. Meanwhile, the loss of Hutch destroyed the chemistry of our offensive line, hastened Robbie Tobeck's retirement, and may have shortened the career of Walter Jones, the greatest Seahawk.

Of course, I have been wrong about the team on some occasions. Initially, I did not believe in Dave Krieg or Matt Hasselbeck, preferring Jim Zorn and Trent Dilfer. However, once Krieg and Hasselbeck matured and proved themselves, I quickly changed my mind and have staunchly defended them ever since. I am happy to be proven wrong whenever it contributes to greater success for the Seahawks.

Finally, my coaching and media experience qualify me to blog on the Seahawks. I coached at the middle and high school levels for eight years, served for several seasons as play-by-play announcer for high school football games, and contributed articles to local newspapers on high school football. I wrote most of the Wikipedia article on Dave Krieg, including the team-by-team and season-by-season narrative sections.

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