Monday's matchup between the Seahawks and Vikings was, at its heart, such a dumb game; a manifestation of the kind of reckless and almost desperate style of play that, at its end, is somehow fun. I went into this battle with an unnerving certainty that the Seahawks would need to score lots of points in … Continue reading The Dumb Game
The best teams in the NFL these days are masters of misdirection; conjurers who move the ball much like the best hustlers with a red ball and three cups in a game of peekaboo as mystifying to defenses as that game is to infants. It's now time to consider the Seattle Seahawks among them. Not … Continue reading Instant Reaction: Seahawks vs. Panthers
Around 2,500 years ago, a lunatic Ionian with a penchant for ascribing mystical properties to numbers founded a cult. Because apparently he did some good things for #math, we have remembered him (though less of his mysticism and lunacy): Pythagoras. And, because clearly sports are more important than math, his name has been immortalized in … Continue reading Pythagoras and the Seahawks
Indulge me for a few moments in a hypothetical. In this phantom universe, you reside in a house. The house itself, and its location, are immaterial; but you’ve been living in this house for a long time. Setting aside any and all proprietary questions, or of ownership, let it be said that the house is, … Continue reading When Safeties Aggress
Seahawks Twitter has long been plagued by an ugly debate on a simple question: does rushing matter? Sadly, the debate is pointless, for several reasons. First, because the statistical evidence overwhelmingly supports that passing is more likely to be successful, both in terms of more advanced analytical stats like EPA/play, as well as in more … Continue reading Tailbacks: The Apostles of Carrollogy
Memory is a strange beast. On September 29, 2018, after weeks and months of being pressured to acquiesce to a destiny in which what our house really needs is a fourth animal, my wife showed me a picture of a cat in need of a new home. Now, please understand that this cat looked almost … Continue reading On Memory and Kittens
Broadly speaking, all truths can be divided into two categories: the obvious and the not-obvious. While the former is important and often serves as the bedrock of each of our own worlds to the extent we can derive any joy from thinking, we do so in consideration of the latter. For example, the purpose of … Continue reading The Shadow of Triumph
