Itula Mili's improved health this week should allow the Seahawks to run fewer four-receiver sets at Chicago. The offense needs a capable pass-receiving tight end to mix up its preferred personnel groupings. Generally they like to go with two backs and then have either two receivers and a tight end or three receivers. They also like to go one-back, three receivers and one tight end. It's not like you can just go one-back, four-receiver all the time against good defenses. The Giants were tailor-made for that approach. I would expect Seattle to mix it up a little more now that Mili is healthy. ...

Tom Ashworth did not receive a $49 million deal. Neither did Nate Burleson, for all intents and purposes. Burleson will get about $14.5M over the next four years as I recall. The rest of the $49M is in the final few years and he will never, ever see it. They tacked it on there just to make a mockery of the Vikings' offer to Steve Hutchinson. ...

Seattle likes its tackles to "swing" (play both sides). Some guys do that better than others. Ashworth did not look good at LT against Oakland (exhibition season) or in limited work at Detroit. That doesn't mean he can't play. It just means he hasn't played well yet. ...

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I did see the python prank on Seahawks.com. Funny. Fortunately I upgraded to 1.25GB of RAM so my laptop was able to call up the front page. ...

hawkowl: You do get a free subscription to the blog for finding the "divine intervention" reference in the story that appeared in the Wednesday paper. ...

Thanks for passing along the links. Jason Cole, former Dolphins beat writer for the Miami Herald, spoke with Matt Hasselbeck recently. The interview is here.