Thursday Night Football

Well it has finally arrived pre-season football for the Seattle Seahawks after being in camp for two weeks. I am sure the players are looking forward to hitting someone else besides their teammates.

The Seahawks will have another look on their team with a number of changes to the roster plus new starters. I look forward to seeing how the offense looks now that Brian Schottenheimer is the offensive coordinator. Chris Carson looks to be the one to start at running back ahead of first round pick Rashaad Penny. I am sure we will see plenty of both during the pre-season; whatever the case the Seahawks should be in better hands over last season.

I will find it interesting if the offensive line will be better this year over last season. If not it will be a long season again for the offense and quarterback Russell Wilson. One improvement is that left tackle Duane Brown will be around all season which should help the line out. The big question will be the right tackle on the other side German Ifedi continues to have trouble going off-sides and other penalties as well. Right now he isn’t having any favors with head coach Pete Carroll. George Fant who is backing up Duane Brown and missed all of last season because of injury may have a chance to see what he can do on the right side.

The only player we most likely won’t see during the whole pre-season is wide receiver Doug Baldwin who is hurt. We will probably see him when the regular season begins. Jaron Brown who has played his whole NFL career with rival Arizona we will probably see starting in Baldwin’s spot. Tyler Lockett we will probably see on the other side starting at receiver. We will see a number of other receivers as well.

I look forward to seeing the whole defensive side of the ball to. It will be especially interesting to see the Griffin twins in the game at the same time. There will be a lot of competition on the defensive side especially on the line. No longer having Michael Bennett who is now with the Philadelphia Eagles and Cliff Avril now retired along with Dion Jordon being hurt not knowing how long he will be out Frank Clark is the most experienced player out there and who knows how he will play with new players on his side.

No news on Earl Thomas other than he still isn’t in camp and when he will report or be traded. The competition there will be interesting as well since Kam Chancellor is now retired.

It will be interesting for us all to keep our eyes open with so many new players. How the team will do for the season we can only speculate at this time. Whatever the case I hope the Seahawks will give us some exciting times. Go team!