The Seahawks return home this weekend for just the third time in eight games–“It just feels like we haven’t been here very much,” Pete Carroll noted–and the hope is that they will be a healthier team than the one that played in Cleveland last week without starters Tarvaris Jackson, Marshawn
Lynch, Zach Miller and Max Unger.
Carroll said all four participated in Wednesday morning’s walkthrough, and will be able to do limited work in this afternoon’s practice. What remains to be seen, however, is if any of those injured players will be game-ready come Sunday.
“We’re getting some guys maybe coming back that can help us,” Carroll said. “We’ll have to get through the week to figure that out. We won’t know until game day probably on all of those guys, but it’s encouraging that they’re able to work more.”
Asked if Jackson would take first-team reps in practice, Carroll said: “He did in walkthrough today. We’ll sprinkle it in throughout the week. We’ve got to get Charlie ready, because we know that he’s ready to go, but we’ll work to bring (Jackson) back.”
Between walkthroughs and limited work in practice, Jackson will be mentally prepared to start Sunday, Carroll said, it will only be an issue of if he is physically ready to go: “He’ll have all of the mental stuff done, but we have to really take it easy on him throwing. We just need to steal as much time as we can before we really extend him. He’ll be ready to go in terms of the mental side of it, we need to see physically if he can handle it.”
Carroll said Jackson has yet to open it up and throw without limitations since suffering the injury.
On Zach Miller, who missed the Cleveland game with a concussion, Carroll said: “Zach is going to get some work. He’ll be in a limited fashion today. We’re going to just make sure that everything works out fine. He feels great, feels like he can go, but we’re going to have to take it one step at a time during the week to make sure he makes it through.”
And on Max Unger, he said: He worked also in the walkthrough. He’ll work in practice today in a limited fashion. He feels really good and in encouraged that he can play, but he again he just has to survive the week. We’ll load him up to make sure that he’s all right before we get there.”
Carroll sounded most optimistic about Lynch, who was a last-minute scratch because of back spasms, and who also had a sprained ankle that slowed him last week: “I think he’s going to be fine for this game. He feels much better already this week than he did last week at any time. His ankle’s way better. I think we’re moving in the right direction there.”
The Seahawks also still have an open roster spot after releasing T Tyler Polumbus Tuesday, and while Carroll said a move has not yet been made to fill the spot, he did indicate that CB Roy Lewis will likely come off the physically unable to perform list later this week.
“Roy will enter back into this thing,” he said. “We’ll figure that out later this week. . . we’ll see how that works out, but we’re planning to see that happen by the end of the week.”
Oh, and one last note, DE Red Bryant disclosed that he was indeed fined by the league for his fourth-quarter headbutt of Browns TE Alex Smith, which got Bryant thrown out of the game. Bryant wouldn’t say how much the league fined him, but did say, “It was a costly mistake.”
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