Preview Arizona Cardinals At Seattle Seahawks

This Sunday the Seahawks are 11 point 

favorites over the visiting  Cardinals.

It looks like they feel that the reigning

Super Bowl will rebound from Monday's 

loss to the Chicago Bears.

Both  Cardinals  and Seahawks will

be starting different quarterbacks

from the week before.  Former WSU

quarterback Gardner Minshew will

be the starter for the Cardinals.  They

had benched starter Jacoby Brissett

during last weeks game. During the

week he was traded to the Baltimore 

Ravens.  The Ravens lost starting QB

Lamar Jackson who was injured to

his thumb and expected to miss the

rest of the season.  It will be interesting 

since playing the Seahawks there will

be fans who are Seahawks and Cougar 

fans at the same time. 

News came out on Wednesday afternoon 

that Sam Darnold had a crack rib early 

on in Monday's game. Make us wonder 

if the wonder why he had a poor and

inconsistent game. Now he is week to

week and won't go on the injured list. 

Drew Lock will be back at the helm and

he is dealing with a sore elbow. Possibly 

the reason he didn't go into Monday's game.

Drew made his first start of the season 

in game two against the Cardinals winning 

31-7. He threw three three touchdowns 

for 235. We hope for about the same 

performance.

Currently the Seahawks are 4-4 tied with

the LA Rams. Later in the season the

Rams and Seahawks will play twice. Who 

takes the wins if winning both may make

the playoffs and the loser likely out. Tying

will make it real interesting. They always 

say it is hard for the Super Bowl Champion

to repeat and right now it looks that here 

too. Go Hawks. 

Preview Penn State At Washington

The Washington Huskies are 1.5 favorites 

at home. Probably one of the lowest in

team history at Husky Stadium.

The comeback win last week at Nebraska 

quarterback Desmond Williams Jr is expected 

to start for the Huskies. 

Penn State last game in Seattle was 103

years ago. Most of us weren't around. Lol

Penn State has a 4-4 overall record and

1-4 in the Big Ten while the Huskies are 5-3

and 2-3 in Big Ten.  A Huskies win they will

be bowl eligible. 

Penn State quarterback is senior Rocco

Brecht. He has completed 148 of 234 passes 

for 1839 yards on the season. He has 13

touchdowns and 5 interceptions. Also

has been sacked 12 times.

Penn State has gone with four running backs.

Carson Hansen is their number one carrier

with 89 carries for 349 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Cam Wallace has 44 carries for 260 yards and

three touchdowns.  James Peoples has 57

carriers for 246 yards and two touchdowns.

Quinton  Martin Jr. has 31 carries for 160

yards and 1 touchdown. See how the Huskies

defense will do.

Penn State goes with three wide receivers 

mainly led by Chase Sowell with 34 catches

for 510 yards and three  touchdowns.

Koby Howard is their high play receiver with

12 catches for 344 yards, an average of 28

yards per catch. Third receiver is  Brett

Eskildsen who has 23 catches for 244 yards

and one touchdown.

Penn State goes to two tight ends frequently.

 Benjamin Brahmer with 25 catches for 264

yards and 3 touchdowns.  Andrew Rappleyea

has 28 catches for 225 yards and three td's.

On defense PSU has three of the four top

players on tackles are linebackers. They

are led by Tony Rojas with 57 tackles and

leads with 5 sacks and two interceptions 

which is tied for first.  Kooper Ebel has 

43 tackles and one sack at linebacker.

Third is safety Jamison Patton with 26

tackles and one interception. Number

four is linebacker Cael  Brezina with 25

tackles.

This expected to be a close game we

will see who wins Go Dawgs.

Seattle Make Their Manager Hire

There are fans and media to I am sure

were surprised by the hire the Mariners 

announcer Tuesday morning. I am sure 

that  most everyone thiught  Jerry Dipoto 

would hire the former manager of the

Houston Astros however that isn't the case. 

Dipoto hired for the third time in Seattle 

someone who had never managed before.

They hired Jason Kansler the player development 

director of the Chicago Cubs. He used to 

be in the Houston organization as well.

He knows the new hitting coach too. 

The Mariners who are becoming a younger

team will need someone who is familiar 

with them but are not friends either.  Like 

most people following the Mariners don't know 

much about him. We do hope that Jerry will

allow Jason to run with it and not micro

management like we think that happened this

year.

One thing I think although Julio Rodriguez 

has shown good things and stats he isn't 

the star we thought he would be. He is 

getting more experience and how the team 

along with himself develop more. 

You have to figure he was the guy that the

offense was built around until 2025 when

Cal his extraordinary season. The trouble 

is Julio has never had a player that fit well

hitting in front of him and behind. The 

player behind would be more important since

they would have to pitch to Julio know who

it is coming up next.  

I would like a manager who can be someone

who is positive as well as making decisions 

throughout the game. This year's team they

were predictable much to do with platooning 

and analytics.  It is important for a team 

before the game but not totally going through

the game.  Next see who his bench coach

may be. Possibly someone who has managed.

Let's see and give him a chance. Go M's.

Huskies, Zags and Cougs Open Up Monday Night

The Washington Huskies beat Colgate 

Monday night  90 to 76. Colgate is

expected to finish third in the Patriot

League.  Not the level of Big Ten but

good basketball though. Congratulations 

Huskies. 

Nikola Dzepina international player led

the Huskies with 27 points and seven 

rbis.  He made 10 out of 17 from the 

field. When the Huskies went on a

12-0 he had  seven points.  We could 

see the Huskies bringing in more

international players though they have

done that in the past.  Gonzaga has been

known for doing so why not join in. 

Might be a good bifes for the Cougars too.

LeJuan Watts who started at one of the

guard spots was next with 22 points.

He primarily made his points from the

foul line going 14 of 16. Not bad at all.

Wesley Yates III who was the Huskies 

only starter last year started this one 

coming off the bench though he played

30 minutes. He scored ten points with

all coming from outside the three point 

line.  The Huskies only used four bench

players in the game.  Next game for them

is next Monday against Mississippi State.

Gonzaga beat Purdue 78 to 72.  The game

was pretty close most of the way. Each half Gonzaga scored three points more then

Purdue. They only led in double digits 

for a very  short time. 

Braden Huff who was hurt in January 

and missed the rest of the season 

led the Zags playing  36 minutes 

and scored 10 points. He shot 4 for 11

in the field. He led with seven rebounds.

David Fogle led the Zags with 22 points

however made six of eighteen from the

field although he made 9 of 10 at the 

foul line.   Next game up for the Zags 

is home against  New Mexico State on

Saturday. Go Zags

The Washington State Cougars weren't 

as lucky as they lost to Davidson 76-61.

Davidson had a good lead at half time

34-22.  The game has been tied at 13-13 

then Davidson went on a 9-0 run to open

it up. 

Jaylen Harrell led the Cougars with 13

points off the bench.  Dominick Robinson 

had 10 points off the bench too. Jamari

Phillips had 11 points the only one who

started and scored in. He didn't shoot

that well going 3 of 12 with two  being

from the three point line. 

Davidson won the game because they

shot well making 54..7 percent from

the field to the Cougars  35.3 percent.

They made seven more three pointers

than the Cougars who took one more 

shot. The difference in the game for

sure. The Cougars shot 20.8 percent 

from  3 point land. The Cougars next

game is also on Saturday at  High Point 

which is in North Carolina. Go Cougs!

Seahawks A Surprise Loss To the Bears

 Not sure the Seahawks were prepared 

Monday evening as they were against the

Chiefs last week.

The Bears showed why they are a good 

offense and their defense played well 

too.

Sam Darnold was off most of the night 

too.  He got a touchdown near the end

of the end of half throwing to Jaxon 

Smith-Njigba. They missed the extra point. 

The Bears went on a eight minute drive

in the first quarter making it 7-0. The

Seahawks got into the red zone early 

in the second quarter however had to

settle for a field goal. They are ranked

30th in red zone.  The Bears kicked 

two field goals before the touchdown late

in the first half. Score 13-9 Bears. The 

Seahawks all they had to do was play 

in the second half but ended up not 

happening.

The Bears scored a touchdown on a

run in the third quarter the only score in 

the period. Darnold thre another pass

for a touchdown to Cooper Kupp making

it 20-17 lead for the Bears. The  Bears 

recovered quickly on another touchdown

to take the lead 27-17.  The Bears stopped

the Seahawks and then scored another 

running touchdown and that was the game.

So  close  then became far for the Seahawks.

The Final   Bears 34 Seahawks 17.

D'Andre Swift carried the ball 27 times 

for 69 yards however scored the three

rushing touchdowns.  Former Washington 

Huskies wide receiver Rome Odunse had 

four catches for  87 yards a team high.

He didn't have a touchdown but certainly 

helped them get one. 

Now the Seahawks are 4-4  so can't 

afford not many more losses. Next 

Sunday the Seahawks play division 

rival Arizona Cardinals at home.

Go Hawks. 

Cole Young Wins Gold Glove

Come Young in his second season with

the Mariners wo the gold glove at 2nd 

base. He was one of a few who had a 

good season over all. He led  the majors 

with 16 defensive saves of runs. 

Come had his ups and downs at the plate

but ended at .246 which is around the major

league average at .244 and number five as

Mariners starters and his 66 rbis was the same 

Not bad for a player of 23 years old. Expect him

to get better each season.

Where he was real impressive was his batting

average with runners on base at .298 and

53 of his rbis. Only Randy Arozarena had a 

better average with runners in scoring position.

The teams overall batting average was .233.

We wish Cole a long and successful career

as a Mariner.  It has been a while they have

had a good second baseman. We will see 

him primarily at second though occasionally 

at shortstop. We likely see Brendan Donovan 

there on occasion and Michael Arroyo too.

Most likely late in games he could be playing 

back at second even if he starts at shortstop.

Thank you Cole and congratulations. 

Preview Chicago Bears at Seattle Seahawks

This week the game is on Monday night. The 

Seahawks are favored by three points this

week. Hopefully they will do the same as 

against the Chiefs last week.

News is they will have  Jadarian Price and 

Zach Charbonnet are expected to play this

week. We will have to see how that goes

The Seahawks did strengthen the offensive 

line acquiring Quenton Nelson left guard

from the Indianapolis Colts. Anthony Bradford 

will back up both Nelson and Grey Zabel who

moved over to right guard.

Chicago Bears have a 5-2 record second in

the NFC. They lead the NFC in rushing. D'Andre

Swift is their leading rusher with 476 yards

with  seven touchdowns. Kyle Monangai who

is number two with 324 yards and three td's.

Will miss out the game because of a thumb 

injury. 

Very known Caleb Williams is the Bears 

quarterback. has 1020 yards passing with

five touchdowns and one interception.

Luther Burden III is the Bears top receiver

with 35 catches for 491 yards and two 

touchdowns. Former Washington Huskies 

Rome Adunse with 24 catches for 381 yards 

and with no touchdowns yet.

The Bears are ranked seventh in NFL. 

They acquired defensive tackle Jeffrey 

Simmons from the Tennessee Titans

to improve their defense.  

Go Hawks.