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Crisis on the corner: Day 304

Staff report - Staff writer

November 01, 2006 10:59 AM

The headline is a play on those overly dramatic TV news updates. The Seahawks might not be facing a crisis just yet, but their cornerbacks haven't picked off a pass in a regular-season game since the final game of last season. Jimmy Williams did the honors against Green Bay on Jan. 1, 2006, a span of 304 days.

We have to go all the way back to a Nov. 6, 2005, game at Arizona to find the last game that one of Seattle's current starting corners -- Kelly Herndon and Marcus Trufant -- picked off a pass in a regular-season game. That's a span of 360 days. Herndon and Trufant both had interceptions in that game against the Cardinals. They need interceptions against Oakland on Monday night to avoid going longer than a full calendar year without a regular-season interception.

Interceptions are not the only measure of a cornerback. Seattle has only five interceptions overall this season, but Indianapolis and Denver don't have more. It's not a crisis. But ex-Hawk Andre Dyson has three for the New York Jets. And with Seattle looking for a spark on defense, a few turnovers would certainly help.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.