Flashback to 2000: Seattle, Meet Edgerrin James

by Hawksince76 on Aug 26, 2009 3:21 PM PDT

It was the “It’s Now Time” 2000 season that turned out to be Mike Holmgren’s “Clueless in Seattle” transitional year, according to Sport Magazine. Slowly, Holmgren was filtering out Dennis Erickson’s players and adding his own. For marketing purposes, Holmgren got on the air and proclaimed the Seattle Seahawks “a championship caliber team.” As it turned out, Seattle finished 4th in the AFC West division at 6 and 10.

The flashback venue? Husky Stadium. The visiting team? The Indianapolis Colts on October 15, 2000, coached by none other than Jim Mora, Sr. Brock Huard, now of KIRO 710 and ESPN fame, had taken the reins from another local favorite, Jon Kitna.

That day, however, belonged to Edgerrin James who introduced himself to Seattle by scoring on a 26 yard touchdown run and remained virtually unstoppable throughout the rest of the game. James added two more rushing TDs and racked up an astonishing (agonizing?) 219 rushing yards on 38 attempts.

To put his productivity into perspective, Brock was 19 of 26 for 226 yards and 3 TDs, arguably one of the best passing days of his career. Edge accomplished almost as much on the ground that day as Huard leveraged in the air.

Huard and James would eventually play on the same Colts team together.

Today’s Edgerrin James no longer has that third gear to break away for a 26 yarder, but we know that he is not finished making a big impression in Seattle.

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It's going to be weird seeing Edge in Seahawks blue

At least for the first several weeks

by aerozeppelin on Aug 26, 2009 4:36 PM PDT reply actions

I was at that game

There’s three things that stand out from that season. The first was seeing our future division rival, defending champion Rams’ QB Kurt Warner, so thoroughly unbothered by our pass rush that I think either Cochran or Lamar King actually was blocked to his feet, grabbed his throwing forearm, and he didn’t even bother to look down or try to move his arm, for another second until the receiver was open enough before simply yanking his arm free and firing away for a good 25+ pickup.

The second was that comeback win against the Raiders, a very soggy game, the Raiders were very good, that was fun.

And the third was James. Expecting to see what this Volunteer kid with high expectations was going to look like, I remember it seemed like it took all 11 Seahawks to bring down Edge on 90% of his carries. I swear he’d take the first 3 or 4 guys an extra 5 yards before the rest of the pack jumped on.

by jacobstevens on Aug 26, 2009 4:54 PM PDT reply actions

I was a Saints fan (and still am) when Edge was drafted

And so I’ve always wondered what would have been if the Colts had taken Ricky Williams and Edge had fallen to the Saints.
It’ll be nice to cheer the guy for once, see what he has left.

by Strictnine on Aug 31, 2009 8:47 AM PDT reply actions