![]() ![]() Or both will play near-perfectly and a great play will be the difference. It’s college football so a mistake may decide it. The current Big Ten champion against the last Pac-12 champion – and next year’s Big Ten member. Top-seed Michigan, 14-0, against second-seed Washington, also 14-0. … Elsewhere in the Pac-12 and the nation, OK, we have a lot on tonight’s CFP championship game (ESPN, 4:30). They fell to 0-3 in the Pac-12 with a 73-72 loss at California on Sunday. … The women’s basketball team is in a bit of a slide. And everyone has the same view as the person cited by Garrett, Michael Ziskrout, at the end of his story. We come into contact – face-to-face and electronically – with many Cougs. Heck, Garrett Cabeza even has a story about it in the S-R this morning. And we all know Cougar fans will be rooting for their compadres from across the Cascades. After all, the culmination of the four-team invitational includes a school from the state of Washington. WSU: Maybe we should have spent the morning writing about tonight’s national title football game. And their fans lament another hopeful season going up in smoke. Meanwhile, the Seahawks prepare for 2024. A chance for a Super Bowl rematch with Baltimore and a chance to avenge a regular-season blowout defeat. And ruined the Hawks’ season handing them two defeats, either one of which would have flipped the teams’ playoff status. If that truly was the case, they did it quickly. ![]() Heck, the Rams had fallen so far last season, they looked to be in the midst of a rebuild. Meanwhile, two NFC West rivals, San Francisco and Los Angeles, look to cement their status in the league’s hierarchy the next few weeks. It’s not a recipe for offseason optimism. The salary cap, while always pliable, is working against John Schneider as he deals with three defensive free agents – Bobby Wagner, Jordyn Brooks and Leonard Williams – who seem to be among the players he would want to keep.Īnd, having not been good enough to make the postseason, the Seahawks were too good to earn a potentially transformative first-round draft pick (they will pick 16th in late April). The sad aspect of the now-in-our-face offseason is the team’s lack of wiggle room. Throw in a four-point loss in Cincinnati early in the season and the Hawks had their chances to be one of the NFL’s middling playoff participants. And, most crushingly, a 30-23 debacle against Pittsburgh at home a week ago. A coaching staff that often seems out of step with the modern world of the game. A glaring lack of attention to detail and, at times, a complete lack of poise. A band of brothers with each other’s back. Throughout the up-and-down season, one that must be considered mostly down due to the fourth-missed playoff season of his tenure, Carroll’s team displayed the traits that mark his career.Ī loose locker room, populated with players who will give their all. And has happened only one other time in Carroll’s Seattle stay.Įven Carroll admitted afterward Seattle had squandered three games this season, any one of which would have made Matt Prater’s last field goal attempt a playoff-clinching miss. It was the Hawks won without being called for a single penalty. Heck, the biggest surprise Sunday wasn’t that Seattle won in its personal house of horrors. Just good enough to compete for a playoff spot – last year’s team got in on the final day, this year’s just missing out – but costing themselves opportunities due to a lack of consistent play or self-inflicted wounds. The day seemed to be a perfect illustration of Carroll’s recent-vintage Seahawk teams. “I do,” Carroll responded when asked the latter question. Once again, nuance and patience were lost in a cloud of smoke billowing from Instagram and Twitter.Īnd just a few feet away, 72-year-old head coach Pete Carroll made it clear he wanted to be back and, more importantly, expected to be back. In the Glendale, Ariz., locker room after the one-point win, Hawk safety Julian Love handed out cigars to celebrate the recent birth of his son, igniting a firestorm of social-media criticism. But the Seahawks also lost, as Chicago did right by itself and lost in Green Bay 17-9, ensuring the Packers the last NFC playoff spot and the Bears the eighth pick in the draft. Yes, the Seahawks won, 21-20 as Arizona’s last-second 51-yard field goal sailed wide right.Unless, of course, it is a flash point as the last Sunday of the NFL season for the Seattle Seahawks went up in smoke. Sometimes, as Sigmund Freud is famously (mis)quoted as saying, a cigar is just a cigar. ![]()
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