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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... the -1 to 2 yards, 0 to 5 yards, and 5 to n yards of the run. Chris Spencer , Max Unger and Steve Vallos / Mansfield Wrotto versus Bryan Robinson , Darnell Dockett , Alan Branch and Gabe Watson : Dockett is the most talented of the group, but as a one-gap player, I do not think he is likely to play nose against a two tight end front. If Dockett is in, the play will turn less on if...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Damion McIntosh is expected to be active for Sunday's game, however it will be Kyle Williams who starts at left tackle. At left guard, it will be either Mansfield Wrotto -- who started last week's game -- or Steve Vallos, who finished last week's game. Vallos is Seattle's back-up center and he started in the games Chris Spencer missed because of a quadriceps injury. What are the...
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Wade Philips runs a single-gap 3-4. It emphasizes disruption. Seattle ran out Steve Vallos at center last season against the Cowboys . Dallas nose tackle Jay Ratliff didn't so much disrupt as unfold a lawn chair in Seattle's backfield. Vallos became reeling, beat down and beaten evidence that, in football, it is often your weakest link that matters most. Chris Spencer will fly...
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... A rickshaw starting at left tackle grounds the run game. Seattle imported a healthy left tackle. A Steve Vallos mucks everything up. Rob Sims has been a full participant in practice. Sunday is Seattle's get-healthy game. Whoever Seattle signs, cuts, draft, promotes, loses or restructures this offseason, and whomever does it, the team that takes the field this Sunday is nine-tenths...
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... might be a little slow coming. I didn't need to see it to know that starting Kyle Williams beside Steve Vallos was going to be a problem. It was a not so subtle and not so brief reminder that football coaches can overvalue intelligence and intangibles. Vallos chemistry with Williams didn't make it off the practice field. The more important matter is how did Seattle's line get...
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... the line was bad enough to kill the offense itself. The Seahawks week six line, Kyle Williams - Steve Vallos - Chris Spencer - Max Unger - Ray Willis , is the worst line Seattle has started since Tim Ruskell took over. Williams and Vallos are essentially replacement level talent, and Spencer to Willis is not the kind of intimidating right side that can hide a piecemeal left....
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... left inside linebacker. This mistake has beset Seattle this year, but Spencer is an upgrade over Steve Vallos both athletically and at powering the tackle off the line. Robinson can succeed either by pushing back Unger and Spencer, or by disrupting Spencer enough to stop him from reaching or getting a good block on the opposing inside linebacker.
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... Freeney . He couldn't handle Mathis. Frye is a good talent, but he's unseasoned. As Willis and Steve Vallos have shown, a lineman can start a liability and develop the skills to stick. Frye has good potential. It's a little troubling Knapp took so long to adjust and when he did, adjusted wrong. Mathis blew past Frye. Knapp assigned blocking help to Willis to start Seattle's next offensive...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
NOTES: Coach Jim Mora said DE Patrick Kerney's strained groin has improved enough for him to start Sunday. He also said he will have to see how CB Ken Lucas is upon his return from burying his father in Mississippi on Friday before he knows if Lucas will start as planned. Lucas played last weekend, two days after his dad died unexpectedly. ... The coach said backup C Steve Vallos is likely...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... this week's game. Wrotto suffered a left ankle injury in the second quarter and was replaced by Steve Vallos though Wrotto continued to play on special-teams.Safety C.J. Wallace suffered a hamstring strain that could cause him to miss time. He's having a magnetic-resonance image (MRI) taken to determine the severity of the injury. Cornerback Travis Fisher is expected to be OK for...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
"The line just kind of caved in on my left knee and it kind of just locked [up] and I said, 'Great, here we go,' " Williams said. "Steve Vallos, you're going in at tackle. And Steve is our center. He's not the prototypical left tackle. He did play it in college. And then after that, we got to put in [defensive tackle] Red Bryant. We don't really have an emergency situation for...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Spencer missed the first two games with a quadriceps injury.That's left names like Williams, Frye, Steve Vallos and Mansfield Wrotto filling critical spots no one ever expected.''To handle, to weather the storm the way they have, to lose probably the best left tackle in football and just keep on going and hold the fort down for him and the other guys we've lost is really impressive,''...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Spencer missed the first two games with a quadriceps injury.That's left names like Williams, Frye, Steve Vallos and Mansfield Wrotto filling critical spots no one ever expected."To handle, to weather the storm the way they have, to lose probably the best left tackle in football and just keep on going and hold the fort down for him and the other guys we've lost is really impressive,"...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Spencer missed the first two games with a quadriceps injury.That's left names like Williams, Frye, Steve Vallos and Mansfield Wrotto filling critical spots no one ever expected."To handle, to weather the storm the way they have, to lose probably the best left tackle in football and just keep on going and hold the fort down for him and the other guys we've lost is really impressive,"...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Spencer missed the first two games with a quadriceps injury.That's left names like Williams, Frye, Steve Vallos and Mansfield Wrotto filling critical spots no one ever expected."To handle, to weather the storm the way they have, to lose probably the best left tackle in football and just keep on going and hold the fort down for him and the other guys we've lost is really impressive,"...
