The First Blue Friday

The Seattle Seahawks start their first exhibition game tonight (Friday) against the Denver Broncos. I am sure most of the 12^th man is excited for the beginning of new football season especially how the last season ended. I won’t say any more about that.

The weather seems to know it is beginning of football season as well since there is thunder and rain happening right now. I am sure there is lightning somewhere as well. It will be quite interesting if it continues during the ball game. There could be some postponement if it does thunder and lightning happen during the game. At least good in an exhibition game instead of a regular season the weather would be this way. It would not hurt that the rest of the country think this is the way the weather is in Seattle and the northwest all the time.

In this game the starters will only play one or two series at the most which is accustomed every year. The Seahawks will be missing some of their key starters who will not play at all. Of course, Kam Chancellor won’t play because he is holding out; Richard Sherman is not expected to play either along with Earl Thomas. So the Seahawks will be seeing a new lineup in the secondary for sure. Thomas will likely not play several games because of injuries and same may be for Sherman as well. We can hope the Seahawks will work things out with Chancellor. The important thing though is that they will all be ready for the beginning of the regular season. We all know that they are tough guys who keep themselves in pretty good shape.

As far as fans go we will be seeing some new faces. Two of the important new faces is the Seahawks first two draft picks. We will see how first pick Frank Clark will do on the defensive line. I believe the Seahawks will play him in several different places to see how he will do in game situations. Also, see how Tyler Lockett will do on punt returns. I expect we may see him pass receiving as well. The receiving positions will be interesting to see how they work out this pre-season.

The other positions to see what happens is on the offensive line since the Seahawks will be starting a new center and left guard. We will see how things work out the next three weeks to see who starts in those positions and who backs them up.

This whole pre-season will be interesting because of the depth and competition the Seahawks will have. I am sure we will see quite a few of them tonight. It will be good to write about who comes to the fore front tonight. The important thing is find those players who will be consistent because we will see some that will look really great at times and then not so good at other times. I am sure we will see that with Clark and Lockett as well.

I am sure those players that have nagging injuries will be kept out of tonight’s game because of the weather. We may only see the starters’ only one series because of the weather. All I know for sure we will have a good time watching regardless of who wins or loses. Though the Seahawks plan to win it is not the important thing at this time. So Let’s Go Seahawks.