Plenty of reading out there from Thursday night’s preseason opener, so let’s get to it…
Here’s my quick reaction to the game from the blog last night.
Here’s the game story from Eric Williams of the News Tribune, saying the Seahawks took a while to get rolling, but then the backups dominated.
Danny O’Neil of 710 ESPN Seattle looks at Tarvaris Jackson’s impressive performance, and also has other notes from the game.
And the gamer from Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times, which also focuses quite a bit on T-Jack’s big game.
Here’s the video from Seahawks.com of Pete Carroll’s postgame presser. You can also watch Jackson and Russell Wilson talk after the Carroll video.
Over at SeattleSportsnet.com (a site anyone who likes Seattle sports and humor should be reading) Alex Akita gets into what will be a new issue for Seahawks fans this year: dealing with bandwagon fans. As he notes, it’s a good problem to have, because bandwagon fans only come with success.
Over at TheMMQB.com, punter Chris Kluwe writes about what it’s like battling for an NFL job, particularly at a position where you know only one of you is going to make the team. It’s an interesting look from a player who has been on both sides of the battle—first as a rookie trying to make the Seahawks roster, and now as a vet who was cut by Minnesota and is now battling a promising rookie for the job in Oakland. Not really a story about the current Seahawks, obviously, but it’s a good read.
Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports chats politics and sports with California’s lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, and while the story is mostly about California sports, it does include a bit on Marshawn Lynch:
Last year, when Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was facing potential league discipline following a DUI arrest, Newsom called up NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — of whom the lieutenant governor is a “huge fan” — and served as a de facto character witness for the 2012 Pro Bowler.
“For him to take the time out to talk to the commissioner about me is something I will never forget,” says Lynch, whose case is still unresolved. “For Gavin to be the second-most powerful person in California and [still] talk to a kid from Oakland and help me learn about business, it tells you what kind of character he has.”
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