We’ll host a live chat here at Seahawks Insider with Seattle Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin on Thursday (tomorrow) at noon, so bring your questions for the Stanford product and we’ll “see” you then.
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch addressed his pending free agency while talking to reporters during his team’s locker room clean out this morning.
“Everything’s going to fall into place,” Lynch said about becoming an unrestricted free agent in March. “There’s not too much I can do about it but just wait.”
And would he like to be back in Seattle?
“I mean I would like to come back, but if it don’t happen, it don’t happen,” Lynch said.
In conference calls with Seattle-area reporters this morning, both Chicago head coach Lovie Smith and quarterback Caleb Hanie were asked about the mood in the Windy City in the aftermath of the Bears losing three straight to fall to 7-6 on the season.
“I couldn’t really tell you,” Hanie said. “I’ve been locked up in a hole trying to study and get ready for Seattle, really. It’s not like I’ve been hitting the streets of Chicago talking to the fans. But I assume it’s not very good. The fans want to win games worse than anybody, so we need to get some wins for these guys.”
When asked who would play quarterback for his team on Monday against Seattle, St. Louis Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo showed that although his team sits at 2-10, he still has a sense of humor.
“I was thinking of lining up there myself,” he joked. “I was a wishbone quarterback in high school so I could pull those notebooks out.”
But seriously, the Rams do have some uncertainty at the quarterback position. Spagnuolo said the team is limiting Sam Bradford’s reps in practice with the hopes that he can return from a high ankle sprain that he re-injured last week, which kept him out of the San Francisco game.
When talking to Seattle-area reporters via conference call this morning, Washington quarterback Rex Grossman was blunt in his assessment of how the season has gone so far for his team.
At the beginning of the season Grossman boldly predicted that Washington would win the NFC East. And a quarter of the way through the year his prediction looked pretty good. The Redskins sat atop the division at 3-1, and were one of the surprise teams in the league.
But then Grossman played awful against the Eagles, throwing four interceptions in a 20-13 loss.
He was benched a week later in favor of John Beck and suffered through an awful bout of pneumonia. Now, Washington sits at 3-7 overall. Mike Shanahan has returned Grossman to the starting quarterback role and the Redskins are currently are riding a six-game losing streak.
St. Louis Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo talked to Seattle-area reporters buy conference call this morning, and gave us his evaluation of this year’s Seahawks.
Spagnuolo said he’s been more focused on watching film of this year’s team because of all the personnel changes Seattle made during the offseason.
“The two things that jump out right at me is they’re getting into a groove running the football,” Spagnuolo said. “They got three good running backs. So we have a tremendous amount of respect for that. And then as soon as you turn on the defensive tape it seems like every time I watch the sideline view I see the line of scrimmage being reestablished on the other side of the offense.
“There are, in my opinion, very stout, active and aggressive up front. And I think that’s how you play good defense. I think they do a very good job of it. So we’ve got a great deal of respect for those two phases.”
Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson said his injury isn’t as sore today, and that he will participate in more reps in practice today than he did on Wednesday, switching around his workout regimen.
Last week, Jackson practiced hard on Wednesday and took it light on Thursday before taking most of the snaps with the first unit on Friday. So we’ll see how the change helps prepare Jackson as he tries to manage the pectoral injury for the rest of the season.
“It’s really taking it day by day,” Jackson said. “I don’t really know exactly how it’s going to feel each day. I guess it’s kind of got a mind of its own. Sometimes I feel like it feels good one day, but I’ll wake up the next morning without doing much and it’s sore. So I just come in every day and try to do what I can each day.”
We had an opportunity to talk to Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo and head coach Jason Garrett.
And as you would expect, both come from the Lou Holtz media relations school when addressing an opponent. When asked about this week’s opponent, both gushed about the Seattle Seahawks like they were playing the 1986 Chicago Bears Super Bowl team.