2007 MEDIA GUIDE - Seahawks Online Media Packet

Rod Springer named assistant Strength & Conditioning coach. 2/5 Jerry Colquitt(Offensive Quality Control) and Clayton Lopez (Defensive Quality Control) named to coachingstaff. 2/14 Sign unrestricted free agent WR Sean Dawkins. 4/17 Select DE Lamar King(Saginaw Valley State) with the 22nd pick in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft. 5/26Defensive Coordinator Fritz Shurmur takes a leave of absence for health reasons. 6/7Holmgren hires former Buffalo Bills’ Assistant Coach Dick Roach to the position of defensiveassistant. Linebackers coach Jim Lind is given the added responsibillity of coordinatingthe defense. 8/30 Seahawks defensive coordinator Fritz Shurmur succumbs to livercancer. 11/28 The Seahawks defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead Stadium to capa five-game winning streak and take the season record to 8-2.2000 — 1/2 The Seahawks finish the 1999 season with a 19-9 loss at the New York Jets, butreach the playoffs for the first time since 1988 with the team’s second AFC WestChampionship. The team’s 9-7 record is the best mark since 1990. DT Cortez Kennedy isvoted to a team-record eighth Pro Bowl along with teammates LB Chad Brown and T WalterJones. 1/9 Seahawks lose their first playoff game in 11 years when they fall to the MiamiDolphins, 20-17, in the final game played at Seattle’s Kingdome. 1/12 Mike Holmgrennames Steve Sidwell defensive coordinator. Defensive Assistant Bob Zeman announceshis retirement from coaching. 1/20 Holmgren names Gil Haskell offensive coordinator.1/21 Holmgren names Johnny Holland assistant special teams/assistant strength and conditioningcoach. 1/28 Holmgren names Ted Thompson vice president/football operations.2/12 WR Joey Galloway is traded to the Dallas Cowboys for first-round draft choices in2000 and 2001. 3/26 Seattle’s Kingdome is imploded, to make space for the new football/soccerstadium and exhibition hall, which will be located on the same site. 4/15Seahawks select Alabama running back Shaun Alexander and Wisconsin tackle ChrisMcIntosh in the first round of the NFL draft. 4/28 Seattle names John Schneider directorof player personnel. 5/10 Scot McCloughan appointed as director of college scouting.5/15 Bucky Brooks and Mike Murphy named area scouts. 6/1 Former Seahawks safetyEric Stokes and Matt Malaspina named area scouts. 7/5 Seahawks hire Brian Davis forradio play-by-play. 9/3 Seattle loses to Miami in season opener, 23-0, marking the firsttime the Seahawks were shut out in seven years. 9/10 Seattle opens a two-year stint atHusky Stadium with a loss to the defending Super Bowl Champion St. Louis Rams in a 37-34 shootout. 10/15 Seahawks return man Charlie Rogers sets team single-game recordwith 198 kickoff return yards and 215 combined return yards versus Indianapolis. 11/12QB Jon Kitna earns AFC Offensive Player of the Week for 22 of 33, 231-yard, three-touchdownperformance at Jacksonville. 12/23 Charlie Rogers returns four kickoffs for 171yards, which included an 81-yard touchdown, versus Buffalo to establish an AFC singleseasonrecord with 2,094 combined return yards (punt and kickoff).2001 — 1/2 Mike Holmgren names Mark Michaels assistant special teams coach. 2/16Former Seahawks QB Jim Zorn is named quarterbacks coach. 2/28 A 6.8 magnitude earthquakehit the Seattle area damaging the Seahawks marketing headquarters at PalmerCourt, forcing them to move out of the building. The new stadium was not damaged andworkers resumed construction less than one week later. 3/2 Seattle trades a third-rounddraft choice and switches first-round picks with Green Bay for QB Matt Hasselbeck. 3/3Seattle signs free agent DT John Randle. 3/8 DT Cortez Kennedy is released. 3/9 Seattlesigns free agent DT Chad Eaton. 3/16 Seattle names Lance Lopes to serve as GeneralCounsel. 4/9 Seattle signs free agent LB Levon Kirkland. 4/12 Seahawks sign a three-yearextension with Eastern Washington University to continue its training camp in Cheney.4/21 Seattle takes North Carolina State wide receiver Koren Robinson with its first overallselection (No. 9) and Steve Hutchinson (No. 17). Selects 12 college players, the most sincedrafting 11 in 1992, during the two-day draft. 5/22 Seahawks switch conferences from theAFC West to the NFC West, joining the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers and the St.Louis Rams following realignment. The Seahawks were a member of the NFC West in theirinaugural season in 1976 before moving to the AFC West in 1977. 6/28 Named Scott Fittererarea scout and named former Kansas City wide receiver Lake Dawson and formerSeahawks safety Eric Stokes pro personnel assistants. 8/3 Signed Trent Dilfer to one-yearcontract to back up Matt Hasselbeck. 9/16 Home game versus Kansas City is postponeddue to the terrorist attacks on Tuesday, September 11. 11/11 Shaun Alexander rushed for266 yards and three touchdowns versus Oakland, including a team-record 88-yard touchdown.FRANCHISE HISTORY 357