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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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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Posted by Eric Williams @ 05:04:22 pm

Seattle Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt was arraigned in Black Diamond on July 2 for a charge of suspicion of DUI in June and pleaded not guilty.

Schmitt is scheduled to appear in a pre-trial hearing on July 22.

Posted by Eric Williams @ 12:14:33 pm
Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill will need to get after the quarterback on third down in 2009 like he did here in this playoff game against Washington.

Pat Kirwan, a former league personnel executive who writes for NFL.com, penned an interesting article a couple weeks ago that I filed away in my memory bank. Kirwan takes a look at the makeup of the league’s best third down defenses. The list offers few surprises, with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Minnesota, Chicago and Tennessee all topping the list.

However, I think this list is important because third down, as Kirwan writes, is considered the money down in pro football – either you get off the field and bring a momentum-gaining drive to a halt, or a productive offense executes and continues to march down field, eventually putting some points on the scoreboard.

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