SPORTS
Another sluggish Seahawks opener brings up old questions
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
RENTON — It took just
a few minutes of the season
opener against Green Bay
for preseason fears about the
Seattle Seahawks’ offensive
line and its ability to protect
quarterback Russell Wilson
to re-emerge as legitimate
concerns.
There wasn’t much that
Seattle’s offensive line dealt
with well in the 17-9 loss to
the Packers. It continued a
trend of lackluster season-
opening performances in
recent seasons, although not
all of them have been losses.
Seattle is 3-3 in its past six
season openers and has scored
16 points or less in four of
those.
But Sunday’s loss to
the Packers revived all the
concerns about the offensive
line that Seattle had tried
to downplay. Tackles Rees
Odhiambo and Germain Ifedi
struggled to keep pressure off
Wilson from the edges, while
Green Bay’s Mike Daniels
was a problem for the interior
of the line.
Wilson was sacked three
times, hit seven times and
only when Seattle went with
its hurry-up offense did the
Seahawks find a rhythm.
Seattle finished with 225 total
yards and was 3 of 12 on third
downs.
“Right out of the chutes we
missed a couple of opportu-
nities to do things and made
a couple of mistakes, errors
that we had,” Seattle coach
Pete Carroll said Monday.
“And then also I would give
it to Daniels, he played a heck
of a football game and gave
us some problems. We didn’t
deal with him as well as we
thought we would.”
Carroll was far from
panicking. But he clearly
wasn’t pleased with the
performance.
“I’m disappointed that we
are talking about that today,”
Carroll said. “I thought that
we were moving in the right
direction. I’ve seen us move in
the right direction, but in this
game we weren’t as sharp.”
The offensive line wasn’t
the only unit struggling on that
side of the ball.
Wilson missed a few
open throws and tight end
Jimmy Graham had an
underwhelming performance.
Graham was targeted seven
times but made just three
catches for 8 yards and had a
critical third-down drop early
in the fourth quarter.
“It wasn’t his best game.
He’ll do better. He was really
disappointed on the ball that
got away from him on the
sideline,” Carroll said.
While Carroll spent part of
East Oregonian
College Football
Monday trying to figure out
ways to help the underper-
forming offense, he was also
having conversations with
the league about what led to
the ejection of Jeremy Lane
in the first quarter after he
was deemed to have thrown
a punch. No television replays
showed a punch being thrown
but rather Lane putting his arm
on Davante Adams’ facemask
after the pair tussled.
Carroll said he agreed
with the analysis from the TV
broadcast that the punishment
was harsh.
“We have talked with the
league and ... I agree with
the way the guys on televi-
sion saw it,” he said.
PBR: Kolbaba bucked off, will compete again on Tuesday
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got the crowd going with a
energetic 87.5 point ride on
Four Star Rodeo’s Blizzard.
After fellow Brazilian’s
Claudio Montanha Jr. and
Robson Aragao both scored
84 point rides, the event hit a
bit of a lull as Section 3 and
Section 4 went along with
only one qualified ride out of
the next 12.
That was until Austra-
lian Lachlan Richardson
took advantage of an
earlier re-ride option to
end the long round as he
rode Sankey/Robinson’s
Soldier Boy for 86.5
points that scored him a
$1,210.10 bonus.
One of the buck-offs in
Section 4 was two-time
defending champion and
Walla Walla native Derek
Kolbaba, who lasted
roughly four seconds on
Sankey/Robinson’s Fast
Cars.
“I just let him beat me
out of the bucking chute,”
a disappointed Kolbaba
said afterwards. “He got
me leaned back a little bit
too much, but we’ll go
home and fix it and come
back tomorrow and make
up for it.”
Kolbaba, who currently
sits fifth in the world
standings with more than
$181,000 in earnings,
began the night with a
huge ovation during the
rider introductions while
perched atop the chutes.
He again got an ovation
from the crowd prior to
his ride, something he
said he’ll never get tired
of hearing as long as he
competes in Pendleton.
“I tell everybody that
this is my favorite event
to come to and of the
year,” he said. “It’s pretty
awesome to have the
support that’s here and the
people that are behind me
back up here in the North-
west, it’s pretty awesome
to have and I’m pretty
blessed.”
Like Kolbaba, Teel said
that the Pendleton PBR
may be one of his favorite
events on the tour already.
And even though Happy
Canyon is a smaller venue
than most of the PBR tour,
it’s one he can’t wait to
compete again on Tuesday
and for years to come.
“It’s amazing here.
With the grandstand the
way they are, stacked in
on top of you, you feed
off that energy,” he said.
“It’s a small arena, but
it’s just the right size for
bull riding in my opinion
and the crowd here is
awesome.”
————
Pendleton PBR Classic
Round 1 Results
1. Ramond de Lima, 87.5 on Four Star’s
Blizzard, $1,613.47; 2. Lachlan Richardson,
86.5 on Sankey/Robinson’s Soldier Boy,
$1,210.10; 3. Claudio Montanha Jr., 84
on Brookman Rodeo’s Damn It’s Good,
$605.05; 3. Robson Aragao, 84 on Brook-
man Rodeo’s Hot Potato, $605.05; 5. Cody
Casper, 82 on Brookman Rodeo’s Smokin’
Good; 5. Emilio Resende, 82 on Sankey/
Robinson’s HMS Chiddingfold; 7. Cody Teel,
80.5 on Korkow’s Singlewide; 9. Bryan
Titman, 79.5 on Korkow’s Bad Black; 10.
Chase Robbins, 78.5 on Four Star’s Morty.
Round 2 Results
1. Cody Teel, 72.5 on New West’s War
Cry, $4,033.68.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Rubens Barbosa of Laciara, Brazil, rides Megan’s Pet before getting bucked off for
no score during the Pendleton PBR Classic on Monday in the Happy Canyon Arena
in Pendleton.
Claudio
Montanha Jr.
of Ribeirão
dos Indios,
Brazil, rides
for 84 point
the Pendleton
PBR Classic on
Monday in the
Happy Canyon
Arena in Pend-
leton.
Staff photo by E.J.
Harris
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MARINERS: Seattle drops first game of a four-game series
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Kyle Seager and Mitch
Haniger homered for Seattle.
Seager led off the second
with his 23rd homer and
Haniger, who had three hits
and finished a triple shy of
the cycle, had a two-run shot
in the third.
Mariners starter Ariel
Miranda (8-7) allowed gave
up six hits and walked three
in only 1 2-3 innings.
Texas led for good when
Nomar Mazara hit a two-run
double in the first — a ball
that ricocheted off the upper
half of the wall in right-center
field.
COACHING THIRD
Wood, the Rangers’
Triple-A manager, coached
third base with Tony Beasley
out to deal with a personal
matter. But the Rangers said
it wasn’t a health issue for
Beasley, who was limited
last season while undergoing
treatment for rectal cancer.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: OF Jarrod
Dyson, whose 28 stolen
bases were tied for third in
the American League, is done
for the season. He will have
surgery to repair something
similar to a groin injury. He
hasn’t played since Sept. 2,
only his second game back
after missing the previous 12
days with a right groin strain.
Rangers: Keone Kela, out
more than a month with right
shoulder soreness, threw
another bullpen session and
will be re-evaluated Tuesday.
... 2B Rougned Odor was
back in the lineup a day after
he twisted his left foot and
ankle chasing a popup down
the right-field line. Odor
is the only Texas player to
appear in all 143 games. He
has started 141 of them.
UP NEXT
Mariners:
Marco
Gonzales (0-1, 6.20) will
be the second consecutive
Mariners lefty to start against
Texas. His last game was in
relief, throwing four score-
less against Oakland on Sept.
2.
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AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Texas Rangers’ Elvis Andrus crosses the plate on a
Nomar Mazara double as Seattle Mariners catcher
Mike Zunino watches in the first inning of a base-
ball game, Monday in Arlington, Texas.
Herbert throws for
3 TDs and Oregon
beats Nebraska
EUGENE
(AP)
—
Maligned
last
season,
Oregon’s defense thwarted
Nebraska’s comeback.
The Huskers were down
42-14 at the half but rallied
with three unanswered touch-
downs. Then Tanner Lee was
intercepted on what would be
Nebraska’s final drive of the
game, and the Ducks held on
for a 42-35 victory on Saturday.
“I’m very proud of
the defense, they made
some very tough stands,”
said running back Royce
Freeman. “Just to see them
grow, especially defensively
as a unit, makes me excited
for the future and trusting
them in big situations.”
Freeman rushed for 153
yards and two scores while
Justin Herbert threw for 365
yards and three more as the
Ducks handed first-year coach
Willie Taggart his second
straight win to open the season.
Oregon’s defense strug-
gled last season when the
Ducks went 4-8. But they
held the Huskers to 109 yards
on the ground and intercepted
Lee four times. There were
obvious breakdowns in
allowing the rally, but the unit
came up big when it mattered.
“Our guys didn’t fold
when adversity came,”
Taggart said. “That was one
thing I was concerned with
going in.”
Lee finished with 252
yards passing and three
touchdowns for Nebraska,
but also had those four picks
— including the one on the
first play of the last drive.
“Squandering the oppor-
tunity at the end, that’s real
disappointing. Getting the ball
back, we had plenty of time and
then that happened,” Nebraska
coach Mike Riley said.
Brooks scores
3 TDs, Minnesota
beats Oregon State
CORVALLIS (AP) —
The P.J. Fleck era at Minne-
sota is off to a 2-0 start after
Shannon Brooks scored three
touchdowns and the Gophers
turned three Oregon State
turnovers in 17 points in a
48-14 win over the Beavers
on Saturday night.
Conor Rhoda, who came
into the game sharing the
quarterback position with
sophomore Demry Croft,
completed 7 of 8 passes for
158 yards and one touch-
down. Tyler Johnson caught
four passes for 127 yards and
a touchdown for Minnesota.
Minnesota’s
running
game punished the Oregon
State (1-2) defense, allowing
the Gophers to control
the ball for more than 38
minutes. Rodney Smith ran
30 times for 92 yards and a
touchdown, while Brooks
had 17 carries for 91 yards.
“Obviously, I’m excited
about the win, but it’s not
about the win. It’s about how
we played, and they executed
the game plan perfectly,”
Fleck said.
A week ago, Rhoda and
Croft split time during the
Gophers’ 17-7 win over
Buffalo. But Rhoda took
most of the meaningful snaps
against Oregon State, playing
all but three series.
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