Greg Knapp was hired as Seattle's next offensive coordinator, which I think is a good thing for Matt Hasselbeck. Knapp runs a West Coast scheme, so Hasselbeck won't have to learn a new offense. There once were rumors Hass could get cut this off-season, but its sounds like he's a safe bet to return.

The reason I don't know that Knapp's hire is a good thing for Hasselbeck is that he's still a downgrade from Mike Holmgren. Knapp is best known as the guy who couldn't fit Michael Vick into a square West Coast hole while working under Jim Mora in Atlanta. His record developing JaMarcus Russell in Oakland also leaves something to be desired, but it's hard to blame anyone for anything that goes on in Oakland.

As Field Gulls points out, Knapp is a run-first coach. Knapp does have a great track record of squeezing awesome rushing production out of average talent. It happened in Atlanta and Oakland, although he had Tom Cable's help both times. Perhaps the news is better for Julius Jones than Hasselbeck. Sorry 'Hawks fans: Jones isn't going anywhere.

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A reader emailed me to wonder what happened to my "Skinny Posts" entry from this morning. The answer: I'm an idiot and apparently deleted it when cleaning up some things in the admin. Unless someone has a great idea of how to retrieve this sort of thing out of movable type netherworld, I guess the blog will just be a few hundred meandering words lighter.