CEO of Vulcan Sports Tod Leiweke was on with Mike Gastineau on KJR.

Here's a story previewing the NFC West that predicts the Seahawks will win the division. The guy who wrote the column was out at practice the other day broadcasting a show for NFL Radio.

These were transcribed by the Seahawks. I made a few edits and made one note:

Matt Hasselbeck
August 8, 2007

(On how where the franchise has gone since the Seahawks played in Husky Stadium…) “I’ve kind of erased this from my memory. No, you know it was a lot easier playing today without (Trent) Dilfer waving the flag at the fans. I found it was him. He’s starting those things.”

“This is one of the best venues in all of college sports to play a game but I think when we were here, when they were letting us borrow their field on Sundays, it had that feel like there was a really big game the day before here. Like this was the second best game going on, maybe the third if Bellevue and Eastlake are playing or something.”

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The special teams practice was back at the facility in Kirkland. It was an abbreviated affair that was, thankfully, under sunny skies that broke through. The team, in helmets and shells, worked on kickoffs and kickoff returns, nothing earth-shattering happening.

I did not see Patrick Ghee at the morning session, though he was in a helmet and shell for the special teams practice. He did not however participate.

Will Herring once again was working on his long snapping after practice.

Steve Raible was on with Softy earlier today on KJR.

CB Kelly Jennings was on yesterday with Dick Fain.

These have been transcribed by the Hawks. I have read through them and they look OK:

Coach Mike Holmgren
August 8, 2007

(On comparing today to when they used to play at Husky Stadium…) “I remember it well, and I think that transition time was hard, but it really allowed us to be the team and organization that we are today football-wise. We experienced some things that maybe hadn’t been experienced before, certainly I did. The culture of winning and expecting to win, being in the playoffs and challenging for the championships, those types of things had to be learned. It had to be experienced a little bit and I think our time here in those years, that’s what we were doing. There was a big change over in personnel, in the first four years, and I think that as great a football city as this is, and has been for years with the University of Washington, when we played here we were kind of still the step-child just because this was someone else’s stadium, someone else’s place, even though it was our home field. I think historically you look at the league and the teams that have had to do that; it has been difficult but University of Washington was great with us. If you remember during that time we were still trying to figure out who was going to be quarterback, we had some older fellas on the team that probably did not buy into my program to be honest, and that happens. I think we are quite different now than we were then.”

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Everything is a little delayed today because this morning's practice was as Husky Stadium.

The practice at Husky Stadium had about 500 people, give or take, attend, with a healthy autograph session afterward. The players in the autograph session were Mebane, Tatupu, Tapp, Sims, Burleson, Branch, Pollard, C.J and Seneca Wallace, Josh Wilson. Kerney, Alexander and Darby. Matt Hasselbeck joined the line after finishing interviews. The session went about 20 or 25 minutes, then was extended by five minutes so more folks could get autographs.

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