RENTON, Wash. — So, where is the buzz? Where is the tingling sense of anticipation? Where is the mounting excitement that usually hits with a welcome blast of adrenaline when the season opener is just around the corner?
It's all missing in action (or inaction), at least in my observation. This is shaping up as the least anticipated, least hyped Seahawks' season in recent memory — surely the most benign of the Pete Carroll era, which began in 2010.
It's an outcome that was set into motion, of course, on March 8, when quarterback Russell Wilson was traded to the Denver Broncos. And not even the NFL's Jerry-rigged opening-day matchup of Wilson's Broncos coming to Seattle to face the Seahawks on Monday night, Sept. 12, is going to whip up anything more than a temporary, and largely superficial, frenzy.
