SOLARBLITZEN

Get lost.

The hawks were on record last year as wanting to play a lot of two TE sets, but it never worked out. Not much else worked out offensively for them either. Maybe Miller is the missing piece?

None of that crap matters. Teams will still scheme to double Haynesworth which will make it easier on somebody else to make plays. If I were a Patriots fan, I'd say go get Lofa Tatupu from Seattle. He's a no nonsense MLB team captain that came into the league as a rookie & put the veteran d-linemen into their places on day one. He's a risk health wise, but a very smart football player, and the Pats could use another LB anyways.

Lofa is another physical casualty for having played the game. It's unlikely that he can play an entire season anymore, so part-time players get offered part-time money, or the teams go in another direction (e.g. hasselbeck out). Games are won on the field, and not in the whirlpool. That being realized, he's a damn smart football player. If you could just take his helmet off, and put it on a rookie body...

The final "QB decision" in Seattle is not likely to come down to competition anyways but rather who can stay healthy behind a starting five that have never played together before. Let's consider the five starters on the 0-line; lots of individual talent that is very young, nobody on the o-line has ever played a single 16 game season for the hawks at the position that they are penciled in at, and there is no real everyday fullback to help out. So the question becomes, which QB can play here & not get killed? Hasselbeck got killed every year since 2007 & could not play 16 games in any of those years since. Yet Hass's agent wanted a 32 game/year contract for a player that has little mobility, and is unlikely to be available at the end of any 16 game season. Whitehurst is likely the best vertical hurling QB on the team, and I base that description off of his college highlite real. What the team asked Whitehurst to do last year, simply did not match his skills/history, so he collects even more rust. Then along comes Jackson...If he can avoid the heavy hits in the early part of the season behind a rookie o-line, then he's got better footwork than what I've seen from him. Keep Whitehurst healthy. Good chance he will be the starter by years end. Again.

There was a lot of talk about Kolb going to Seattle, but we ended up with T-Jack instead. I wonder what our USC coach Carroll is going to think about it after this year is over...Hmm?

Mebane & Cole are just a lot of fun for a d-minded person to watch. Seattle needs a lot of LB help though so that DT tandem will be more effective. SOB Curry is unproductive, MLB Tatupu has been all busted up for a long time now, FOB Hawthorne is the only effective member of the entire squad. Nobody else but seattle could consider fielding a 4-1 defense and live, a 3-1 will get killed anywhere. On the other hand, if your team does get Me-Bang...You're gonna like him a lot!

Curry's highlite real out of college was even a dissapointment. He's a serviceable roster member only. If you want to see NFL calibre highlite level linebacking on the hawk's squad, then you have to turn to David Hawthorn (aka The Heater), who was an undrafted free agent that developed.