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2014 SEAHAWKS SPECIAL SECTION
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THAT WAS FUN ...
LET’S DO IT AGAIN! There will be no sneaking up on the rest of the league this year as the Seahawks look to repeat as Super Bowl champions BY BRIAN BECKLEY
TRAINING CAMP 2014
bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
The Seattle Seahawks open their 2014 campaign today, Friday, at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renton, with practices running through Aug. 13. The regular season begins Sept. 4 at home against the Green Bay Packers.
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to be built for the long haul. On top of that, no one at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, the Renton facility the Seahawks call home, is slacking. “Right now I definitely believe we’re further ahead (than last year),” quarterback Russell Wilson said during this year’s minicamp in June. “It’s exciting. You have an itch because you know how to do it at a very high level and the best part about it is we can continue to do it better.”
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e in the Pacific Northwest knew it from the beginning, but as the Seattle Seahawks and their top-ranked defense made their way through the NFL last year like a hot knife through butter, the buzz surrounding the team seemed to stay low. All through the season and the playoffs, the Seahawks were downplayed and ignored by popular media and national talking heads. That is until the “underdog” Hawks scored 12 seconds into Super Bowl XLVII and never looked back, blasting the favored Denver Broncos 43-8 and bringing the Vince Lombardi Trophy to Seattle for the first time in the franchise’s history. This season, however, the cat is out of the bag and no one is overlooking the Seahawks. This year, the team has a target on their back as they attempt to repeat as NFL champions. But don’t worry, last year’s Super Bowl champs were the youngest team ever to win a title. At an average of 26 years and 162 days old at the time of the game, the Hawks appear
Supplement to Renton Reporter • July 25, 2014
Despite beginning just his third year in the pros, Wilson has emerged as the team’s leader on the offensive side of the ball. Already, the young quarterback is breaking records and the sky appears to be the limit for him and the Seahawks. At just 25 years and 65 days old, Wilson became the third-youngest starter ever to win a Super Bowl and his 28 total victories are the most in NFL history to begin a career. In the postseason, Wilson also shines. His 4-1 record and quarterback rating of 102 during the postseason ranks him second in history among quarterbacks in their first [ more AGAIN page S2 ]