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The auto bailout was cronyism more than corporate welfare. People should be in jail for what happened. It was a massive failure. Much of the increase in sales was due to fleet sales. Fleet sales is generally govt. buying large quantities of vehicles. Recent fleet sales have probably been politically driven, not need driven in order to convince the low information rubes out there that the corrupt/failed auto bail out some how has worked.

It did not work. It screwed over thousands of people to reward the politically connected and Chrysler is now an Italian company. The can was kicked down the road and the real reforms needed in the domestic auto industry never happened. And then there were two.... Meanwhile Japan has Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazada, Mitsubishi....

Wrong side of the Cascade Mountains. Jake grew up in NW WA near the Canada border. Within the Seattle TV market which is of course where he played in college. My guess is Bishop Sankey, the Titans rookie RB who played high school ball for Gonzaga Prep in Spokane.

Or maybe a college teammate and friend of Sherman? One who replaced and is playing under the immense shadow of Peyton Manning? No idea where the info came from, but that would be my first guess. They played the Broncos well during the regular season. David Shaw has done an excellent job of keeping former players like Sherman and Luck close to the program. Shaw attended the Super Bowl and celebrated with Sherman and Doug Baldwin after the game. I don't think intercepting Peyton's hand signals made much of a difference. With Seattle up big, they already knew Peyton was going to throw the ball and they already knew he couldn't beat them deep.

Bennett and Branch never played together. Branch was in Seattle in between Bennett's two stints there (2009 & 2013).

It was the Jermaine Kearse remark that caught my attention the most, not the PED stuff. I am sure all NFL locker rooms have offenders. After baseball, cycling, Olympics, etc., it is pretty clear that it runs deep and rampant in sports. Jermaine Kearse was a stud at the University of Washington. Syracuse fans may remember the 179 yards and 3 TDs he had against them in 2010. I was shocked he was not drafted. It was the silly drops that cost him. The eye surgery has done wonders for him. If I ran an NFL organization, I'd have an eye specialist be apart of the scouting staff. As for Seahawks 24/7, it was designed to dissuade players from getting season ending injuries in Pioneer Square bar fights, DUIs, drug suspensions, and breaking into doughnut shops in the middle of the night. Another Pete Carroll mantra is competition. If you are hungover at practice or missing time for a drug suspension, you will likely lose your spot to someone more hungry. I wouldn't be surprised the adderall issues stem from the grueling film sessions Russell Wilson and Earl Thomas put them through.

Decade+ lurker hoping to get some of those aluminum foil caps into the recycling bin: - The Seahawks have had 7 drug suspensions, not 7 PED suspensions. Irvin & Browner were popped for PEDs. Browner (2nd time) and Thurmond this year were busted for recreational drugs. The other three players who violated the NFL's drug policy are no longer on the team. Odds are Irvin will be the only one left in 2014. - According to Carroll, the point of Seahawks 24/7 is to not mess up off the field thus hurting the team. Things like drug suspensions for example. - Jermaine Kearse left the University of Washington #2 all-time in receiving yards (2,871) and receiving touchdowns (29). While at the Univ. of Washington he made spectacular catches and some inexplicable drops. Kearse has had laser eye surgery following college, which fixed the problem. Pete Carroll coached Smith in college, against Kearse, Sherman, Baldwin, & Thurmond in college, and recruited Irvin, Turbin, and many others while at USC. It will be interesting to see if Carroll can keep it up the further removed from the college game.