Results tagged “walterjones”

Matt Hasselbeck was stuck on a delayed flight from Newark to Seattle this morning. So how did Hass pass the time? By Tweeting!:

The Seattle Seahawks have the fourth overall pick in Saturday's 2009 NFL draft, and we can only hope they do better than the Chicago Bears did with the first overall pick in NFL draft history: The Bears' selection, running back Jay Berwanger, eschewed pro football for a job as a foam-rubber salesman. (Don't knock it: These were the halcyon days of foam-rubber sales. Think Mad Men, but with even more dames and broads.)

The 2008 football season ended last week for Walter Jones, the Seahawks' offensive tackle and general-prover-of-Einsteinian-physics. Jones was suffering from a knee injury so severe that it would require a cutting-edge procedure called microfracture surgery. The P-I's Danny O'Neil wrote that Jones had headed off to Colorado to have the intricate surgery performed by the world's leading expert, Dr. Richard Steadman.

We had to see this coming.

10 out of 10 Pro Bowl voters agree--the Seahawks have more talent on defense than on offense.

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer’s market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs.

Lately the Seahawks' offense has been about as offensive as a Bastyr College commencement address.

--The Hawks' Walter Jones, Lofa Tatupu, Julian Peterson and Mack Strong are going Pro Bowl-ing.

If you saw any of the Hawks win yesterday, you saw Shaun Alexander hobbling around gingerly. Turns out he's got a broken foot, and he could miss as much as a month.

Optimists that we are, we'd hyped ourselves into a pretty good mood about the upcoming Husky football season. (Anything to stop from thinking about the Mariners). We thought--hey--the Dawgs start out with four very winnable games (ignoring the Oklahoma game, which they should probably just forfeit now and save state taxpayers the airfare).

Honeymoon's over, Seahawks front office. You greedy fools.

When he tied Priest Holmes' touchdown record, Shaun Alexander gave each member of the Seahawks offensive line a hug. Before the Packers game, he gave them each a Christmas gift--a portable digital video recorder.

Being a Seattle sports fan on Sunday afternoons used to mean a forced trip to Ikea. We mean, what was the other option, catching the Seahawks on TV? Even as the Seahawks slowly improved the past few years, they were no fun to watch, as they blew games and went on late season losing streaks. It was enough to make us want to smash our brand new Flurkten (which we put together ourselves, thank you very much).

In a two-week burst of activity, the Seahawks secured their three top free agents for the 2005 season and beyond. The team completed this task on Wednesday, signing quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to a six-year contract. This allowed the team to designate running back Shawn Alexander as the team's "franchise player," which all but assures that he will return to the Seahawks. Last week, offensive tackle Walter Jones signed a seven-year deal.

Seahawks owner and Microsoft kajillionaire Paul Allen owns one 400-foot yacht and one 300-foot yacht. That's 700 feet of yacht to enjoy, so it's no surprise that Allen hasn't yet gotten around to choosing someone to run the Seahawks.