Eric D. Williams took over the Seahawks beat and Seahawks Insider blog in December. Williams has covered the Seahawks, Sonics and high school sports for The News Tribune since joining the paper in 2006. Eric lives in Tacoma with his wife and two children.
Tacoma News Tribune columnist Dave Boling also contributes to the Seahawks Insider blog.
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On Monday, Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said there would be changes this week, and after watching practice this afternoon Holmgren made good on his promise.
However, the player changes were mostly subtle. First, Koren Robinson was in full pads and working in with the first offense, along with a stable of other receivers. It's the first time Robinson, who has been hampered with a sore knee, has made it through an entire practice since Seattle picked him up a few weeks ago.
Robinson said he's getting close to being in playing shape, and wants to make it through practice healthy this week so he can play on Sunday.
"Today was the first step," Robinson said. "I felt good. I'm not where I need to be. I'm not where I'm going to be, but it was definitely a step in the right direction."
With Robinson back, the Seahawks worked him at split end along with Billy McMullen and Jordan Kent. Keary Colbert and Michael Bumpus worked at flanker, with Bobby Engram getting work both on the outside and in the slot.
Maurice Morris also returned to action and moved pretty well today. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck did not practice, but came out midway through with a sleeve on his right leg. Seneca Wallace did not practice.
Defensively, linebacker Leroy Hill missed practice with a sore knee, and D.D. Lewis worked with the first team in place of Hill.
Josh Wilson and Kelly Jennings split time at right cornerback, with Wilson bumping inside when the Hawks worked on nickel defense.
Seattle defensive backs coach Jim Mora said Jennings is more of an outside guy in the team's coverage scheme, while Wilson works better on receivers inside the slot. Mora also said Jennings has been dinged up and they want to get more reps for Wilson, hence the open competition at corner.
"It's a multitude of things," Mora said. "No. 1, we want to get Josh more reps because he's worthy of more reps. No. 2, Kelly had the mild concussion and maybe a little bit of a stinger Sunday on the seventh play and didn't come back then. And in the second game he broke the rib, so he's a little beat up.
"It's a long season. We've got 12 games to go. So we want to make sure we're prudent in how much we put him out there and expose him when he's not 100 percent."
Jennings said his confidence is still high, and that he just has to do a better job bumping guys off the ball in press coverage and battling for jump balls at the end of the route.
"I'm a cornerback," Jennings said. "We've got a Pro-Bowl corner on the other side so I know they're coming my way. So I've got to step up and make a play, or we've got to do something different."
I also talked to Marcus Trufant about his hand injury. He said he's wearing a smaller cast which allows him to use his injured hand more. Trufant said he's hoping to get rid of the cast in two weeks.
COMMENTS:
I really hope K-Rob works out for us. I never thought after the way he left Seattle I would ever welcome him back but I guess that just shows how desperate I am for a win.
Just please don't go back to K-drop Koren!
So if Hasselbeck didn't practice and Seneca Wallace didn't practice, then Laughing Charlie Frye was working with the first team receivers?
I was at the Giants game, what an embarrassing performance.
They need to go 4-12 to get a top pick and get a top flight DT, so they can actually stop the run.
I am happy to see K-Rob back and hope everything works out well for him. But he is one of the reasons this team has been sent backwards. Think of what happened if he would have been a model citizen since day 1. Ruskell would have never traded that #1 pick for Branch since it would not have been necessary to do so. We could have used that pick for Safety help, or maybe got a better CB than Wilson, hey possibly draft a OG or OT.
It is just funny to watch how bad personel decisions come back to haunt teams, especially in the NFL.
It would be nice to see the defense step up and play the way we all believe they should be able to play. At least keep us entertained.
Sadly neither are a great option.
Usually when Wilson gets beat he's in the picture, he lacks ball skills but he seems to usually be in decent position. Jennings on the other hand, has been absolutely toasted a few times and seems to be the number one offender of PI and illegal contact penalties.
I'm so glad we now know what was wrong with our Defense. Jennings was "banged up a little." Wish we could have known that before he was resposible for giving up 500+ yards. Now that we have Josh over there, we can expect to hold teams to...... what..... say 450+ yards?
We are on our way now.
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