Apparently Shaun Alexander's god does exist, and he is mad as hell at the Hawks for letting his Holy Runner go.

There is bad luck, and then there is divine intervention, and the later is about the only thing that can explain the current injury situation. Think about it, its like we are being guided to run.  Just look at our WR injuries:

• Bobby Engram 
• Nate Burleson
• Deion Branch
• Ben Obamanu

And now it looks like our best receiver this Sunday is going to be our backup QB?

Then just to make sure we get the hint, he goes and takes out our starting RB.  Then a couple days later, when we still don't listen to what the gods are telling us, one of our starting offensive linemen goes on IR and Pork Chop (apparently Alexander's god isn't Jewish) becomes our man at right guard.

Seems to me like it's about time we resign Shaun and get back into good graces before the almighty starts picking on our defense.

Where do we go from here?

The Seahawks press release today annouced the loss of both the Seachicken's punter and one of the rooks.  With Burleson now on IR, joining Branch and Engram(and Tatupu) on the injury reports, the offensive strategy is going to have to do a complete 180 from last season.  Since the Seachicken run game was dominated by the "Shaun Show" in 07, most of the major gains were made by effective passing.  Now with those premier receivers out of the picture, Hasselbeck(if his back situation isn't as bad as has been hinted) and Co. are going to have to shift focus to the hand-off and work on protecting those runners behind the o-line.  Morris/Jones can bring home the bacon, provided they realize their role in the grand show and play it right.  The best way to avoid a hit(tackle): don't be there when it comes.  Finess is the keyword here; the ability to out-play the opponent, anticipate where they will attempt to bring you down and shift your footwork to not be there when they execute.

Easier said than done, right?  

This came across in my email this morning as part of a GameStop ad and I could not help but thinking it was just wrong

And following that up was an email with the NFL's own attempt at cashing in on the Favre soap opera:

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

Your 12th Man Loves You!!

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:

Watching football sure makes you do some strange things, and stirs conflicting emotions.

I'm sitting here watching the 49ers vs Steelers game. I know I'm supposed to be rooting for the Steelers in this one because of my love for the Hawks. We don't need the 49ers getting any more wins. The Fox guys this morning were pretty sour on the 49ers, but I'm still scared of them in our division. So I'm happily going to root for the Steelers, right?

Even knowing I need the 49ers to loose I have trouble actually rooting for the Steelers. I used to root for the Steelers when I'd see them on TV, but ever since they were given the win in the Superbowl, I want nothing more than to see them lose, and lose bad, whenever I see them play. I know, I know, I should just get over it but.....

So I will root for the Steelers because I have to, but not becasue I want to.

-Farmer

This is a blog post I read that really hit me how right on it is...Interesting Comparison between Vick and Pete Rose..

"Pete Rose bet on the sport. To the best of my knowledge, he did not OWN THE BETTING VENUE. He was a better. Not a booky and promoter. Just a guy addicted to gambling.
Now this loser SOB vic, let's compare them shall we. Vic OWNED the kennel where the dogs were trained. He went and found dogs to fight, brought them back and tortured them and starved them until they would rip anything to shreds. Fed them gunpowder and beat them regularly. Kidnapped and or otherwise aquired "practice dogs" for the vicious fighting dogs to rip apart. Think BENJI here folks, think taco bell dog, think TOTO from the wizard of oz. Think of all the blood washed down this demons drains?????????? And this he PAID 100's of THOUSANDS of dollars to CREATE, and PROMOTE, and NURTURE this EVIL. He did not stumble and trip and land in a dog fighting arena. He bought the land, built the arena, invited the guests, trained and provided the "entertainment", and made money off this perversion of power. SO THIS GUY IS BEYOND GUILTY.
Pete Rose was and IS a real nice guy compared to this PIG. It is a major insult to Pete to compare him to this type of hell promoter. I never heard of Pete drawing blood or torturing living creatures. Rose was a gambler, vic is a DEMON
AND - Rose was WHITE and BANNED FOR LIFE - so this is not a "cuz he's black issue"
His spirit is DARK, has nothing at all to do with his skin color."

I hope some justice is served on December 10th 2007! I will check in then.