Great game boys! Thanks for a hard run and another Championship award! Incredible job.

Your 12th Man Loves You!!

 Found this on NFL.com today.

November 4

1984 — Seattle sets an NFL record by returning four interceptions for touchdowns in a 45-0 victory over Kansas City. Dave Brown scores twice while Kenny Easley and Keith Simpson also return interceptions for touchdowns. All of the scores are longer than 50 yards.

We've all been used to the Hawks being an offensive team, so we just assume this is is the same as the past few.  But as I've watched the last couple of games its become apparent that the tide has changed. 

The Hawks bread and butter is in defense and special teams.  I think this is one of the best defense I've ever seen in my years of watching the hawks.  I actually welcome having a more defense oriented team, its just hard adjusting to watching an impotent offense.

I got an email from one of the many hawk newsletters that I'm signed up for, and they had a mid-season review that really drives the point home if you look at our defense vs offense scoring ratings as well as the turnover margins:

I'm almost having trouble writing this over the smell of the big fat rotten egg that the Hawks laid today.  Even the seachickens teams of old would have been embarrassed by this ass whoopin.

Well, really it was the offense that laid the egg and the defense was stuck eating it.  We've gotten used to not being able to run this year, but tack on top of that the inability to complete passes to open receivers and you have one big old stinker.  The defense actually played incredibly well for a long time, but they got tired.  You can't blame them.  Here is the stat of the game:

Time Of Possesion 
Seattle 19:15 to Steelers 40:45 

That is a testament to just how impotent the offense was.

You know you wins the golden egg this week?  NO ONE!!!! I can't bring myself to reward anybody for that train wreck I just watched.  Here's your darn egg Hawks:
 

Its our chance to let out a year and a half's aggression.  I'm already getting goosebumps for next Sunday.

Sports fans rejoice!  Despite the close of a disappointing Mariners season, an embarrassing World Cup semi-finals loss by the US Women's soccer team and more news about Alexander's injury, the Hawks have a chance to chase away those NW blustery winds and grey skies by pounding the 49ers into the ground on Sunday.

I'm looking for Hasselbeck, Branch & Co. to bring out the Heat and take advantage of a 49er team that was humbled by Pittsburgh last week.  I want to see Tatupu and Peterson introducing Smith to field turf on a regular basis.  I want to see guys flying around and making the kind of plays that make you go "OOO!".  I want to see a blow out.

So come on Hawks--bust out the hardware so I can recapture that warm and fuzzy feeling to compliment my comfort beers! 

The Colonel

Another season, another lingering injury hurting performance, another cracked bone.  I feel like I've already seen this one.

Thats right chickens, that club on his arm is protecting a cracked bone in his wrist:

Read about it here.
 

Hasselbeck gets his egg.  He made some kill throughs when needed, and overall was on the money.  That last TD pass to Burleson splitting the CB and Safety was a thing of beauty.

Again, like every week so far Burelson was on the short list of winners.  Hang in there buddy, you'll get yours the way your playing.  Another prospect was the whole special teams.  That game would have turned out way different without their play.

Great game guys.