Tasteful Profanity

“You want to talk about Ron Wolf a little bit?”  The question is barely out before Scot McCloughan answers, his voice brimming with enthusiasm and eagerness: “Let’s do it.” Every aspiring football guru needs a mentor, and McCloughan drew Wolf. He could’ve done a whole lot worse. We sit and talk for a long while, … Continue reading The Godfather: An Interview with Scot McCloughan about Ron Wolf

Walter Jones learned, at a very young age, that he had a gift. So often he found himself crouched on the football field, one hand in the dirt, flanked by the guard, eyes boring into his opponent’s. It’s fitting that a man so gentle and kind excelled at protecting his team’s most vulnerable and valuable … Continue reading Born for This: An Interview with Walter Jones

Denial is a sports fan's best friend in a number of ways. Some live in the joyful lie that the team they root for knows what they're doing and that every move is a calculated step in the master plan. Others choose to ignore qualities in or decisions made by less than stellar humans, just … Continue reading Learning to love after The Legion

The narratives we assign to athletes upon our initial impressions tend to stick with them. A person can change, as can our view of them, but if the shift is not stark, they will carry the burden of this dissatisfaction for the remainder of their career. Try as they may, every mistake is amplified tenfold, … Continue reading The Magic of One Moment

With a victory over the Steelers on Sunday, Pete Carroll has officially won 100 games as head coach in Seattle. Because of this, Rain City Redemption's William Cornell and I decided to precisely rank every single one of these wins from worst to best and reveal them to you in a trio of posts. William … Continue reading The Pete Carroll 100: Counting down wins 20-1

The Seahawks are 1-3 against the Rams in four matchups since the hiring of Sean McVay, having been outscored 121-85 in the series. Seattle was able to hold them to ten points in their first head-to-head in 2017, as the Legion of Boom was still healthy and fully committed to what they didn’t know was … Continue reading Tasteful Filmography: Surviving the Rams’ Dagger Concept

Michael Dickson is the best punter in the NFL. He's also a pretty cool dude. *Last December I reached out to Seattle's All Pro punter, asking him for an interview. To my surprise and elation, he agreed and we kept in touch over the last couple months as he traveled to and from his home … Continue reading T*steful Discourse: An Interview with Michael Dickson

At the time, my younger brother and his wife were living in town, expecting their second child. It was a joyous period of life. We’d share meals, talk music, and our toddlers would escape our clutches to go ransack the living room, like good toddlers. We would definitely chat about the bad Seahawks, seeing as … Continue reading Every “thank you” to Paul Allen is inadequate. Here’s one anyway.