Don: The Seahawks are out of shape and overexposed

The Seahawks have a lot of critics. Sports commentators. Rival teams and their fans. Even fair-weather 12s.

And now KIRO Radio’s Don O’Neill is weighing in on the Seattle team, but perhaps in a novel way after watching recent news coverage.

“I have to say, though, that my gut reaction was: get off my darn TV, off my computer monitor,” Don said. “I don’t want to buy a Beast Frappuccino … I don’t want to see Russell Wilson hanging out with Macklemore in a pool.”

“You got Beast Mode standing at a Starbucks … and he has time, evidently, to sit around and make Frappuccinos, but he doesn’t have time to go 100 yards,” Don said. “Then I saw it was for charity and I felt bad. All the guys are overexposed right now. We need to practice.”

Don’s take on the Seahawks is that not only are they overexposed, more importantly, they are out of shape. And he wants to do something about it.

“I’m offering every Seattle Seahawk free spin classes with the spin instructor of the year 2007-08, at the studio I teach at,” he said, noting he was that spin instructor of the year. “Because in the fourth quarter, my son told me, ‘Daddy, they are out of shape. Daddy, you’re in shape. They should come to your spin class.'”

“My 5-year-old has a pretty good idea,” Don added.

Don added that he would even take his spin class whistle to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, where the Seahawks practice, and yell out commands at the players there.

“If Paul Allen brings me over there, we are not going to have this fold in the fourth quarter we’ve been seeing because I don’t allow that,” Don said. “I’m going to bring my whistle in there. I’m going to scream and yell at everyone like I do in my class. I’m telling you, most of the people in my spin class are in better shape than the Seattle Seahawks.”

“The Seattle Seahawks, especially on defense, they cave because they are not in shape,” he added.

Don further argued that if the Seahawks fall apart in the fourth quarter during their game against the 49ers on Thursday, he expects a call from Seahawks owner Paul Allen.

“Let me know you bought 53 bikes for your 53-man roster,” Don said. “I’ll take them all down. None of them would beat me. Impossible. I would destroy all of them.”

“Paul Allen, don’t buy any saddles for the bikes because we are not going to be sitting, like your Seahawks have been sitting in the fourth quarter,” he said.

While the KIRO Radio host may be talking tongue-in-cheek smack, he stands behind his offer.

“Richard Sherman is not out there smack talking right now because he’s too tired,” Don said.