Thursday night Special Hawks vs. Cards game thread

[Michael K.]

I was wondering how the run game was impacted by Ouzts's injury. He had 19 offensive snaps vs SF, 27 vs PIT, and 14 vs NO before getting injured. I would assume he was out there on the majority of run plays but they don't show that breakdown.

That's an interesting point. It also could have impacted how many times we lined up under Center as opposed to the gun.

[Donn Beach]

I think someone should point out to Leonard Williams that children and miners once tolled endlessly for long hours and little pay without the benefit of personal recovery rooms

The 11th-year veteran Pro Bowl defensive end does the recovery and rehabilitation in his team’s training room. That is standard for a player to get through a 17-game NFL season.

But Williams now goes beyond that. He’s been making fancy additions to his home overlooking Lake Washington near Seahawks headquarters.

His man cave is his recovery room.

In it, Williams has a padded massage table. He has a red room, which is an infrared-light sauna.

He also has a hyperbaric chamber. A sleeping-bag-looking device pulses pure oxygen through his body as he lays inside.

Williams uses the hyperbaric chamber about two to three times each week, 90 minutes to two hours each time. He especially likes to use it before he goes to bed. He feels it helps him sleep. He also feels it aids recovery from the many swollen parts of his body he has after playing in the constant car crashes that are NFL games each weekend. All that’s just inside his house.

Outside he has what’s become a hydrotherapy deck. It overlooks the lake. On it, Williams has installed a squarish hot tub with water jets. Next to that, he dumps bags of ice into a cylinder-shaped cold tub. He alternates time hopping in and out of each tub.

Williams showed off his recovery room and deck this week on his Instagram account. To him, those rooms are how and why he’s had 11 sacks in his last 11 games and played in 38 of a possible 39 games the last three seasons. That’s since Seattle traded with the New York Giants to acquire the two-time Pro Bowl end in October 2023. The home work is working. Williams continues to be one of the more dominant players on the field in most Seahawks games. He’s the primary reason Seattle through four games this season are among the league’s best at pressuring and affecting quarterbacks, while among the lowest-rate blitz teams.

here is Leonard talking about it, when he was young recovery was for sissies, he just wanted to play video games lol. Notice he has a T shirt on that says, Chasing Edges, that's an MM trademark, look for an edge. Seems Leonard has bought in

https://www.seahawks.com/video/leonard- ... buccaneers