The Seahawks are trying hard to sign rookie linebacker Aaron Curry to a deal so that he can report to training camp. Seattle general manager Tim Ruskell said the team was going "nonstop" in their efforts to sign the fourth overall pick.

Seahawks receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh is boycotting the latest installment of the Madden video game over a disagreement with his own rating. Madden ranked Houshmandzadeh as the sixth-best receiver in the NFC, behind Larry Fitzgerald, Steve Smith, Anquan Boldin, Roddy White and Calvin Johnson. "I understand I averaged 10 yards a catch, but it's the offense, not me," Houshmandzadeh told ESPN's Colin Cowherd. "I'm not playing Madden no more until they get my rating right. ... I used to be the best in the world at Madden. I'm going to miss not playing it, but until they do me right, I'm not playing it any more."

Former Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren "mailed it in" at the end of last season, according to a source that spoke with Colin Cowherd. Cowherd said the following on Friday: "A source told me late, like Week 13 or Week 14 in the NFL season, a source that does not want to be identified on this network, that Mike Holmgren had essentially mailed it in. Very little energy, looking forward to retirement. Putting in 9-5 hours. Bill Belichick is going 5 a.m.-9 p.m. There was very little cohesiveness. He was on his way out before Jim Mora took the job over. And it was sort of a un-energized last year in Seattle. Not that he mailed it in by your standards or my standards, but by NFL standards, 17 hours a day, Holmgren wasn't there emotionally."

Matt Hasselbeck is getting into shape by swimming the very cold Columbia River. "It's not Lake Chelan," Hasselbeck said in the radio interview. "The Columbia River. Lake Chelan, that would be crazy."

Though it hasn't been confirmed, the Seahawks are rumored to be working Seneca Wallace in the Wildcat formation. "He's the perfect guy for it, with the way he can both run and pass," said one Seahawks insider.

Former MVP running back Shaun Alexander is still contemplating a return to the NFL. The Seahawks cut Alexander last year, and he signed on with the Redskins in October before he was cut roughly a month later. He recently told the Mobile Press-Register than he has had "preliminary talks with a few NFL teams."

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has reached the summit of Mount Rainier, according to an Associated Press report. Ed Viesturs said Thursday that Goodell had to dig deep physically and mentally to reach the 14,411-foot peak on Wednesday morning. Viesturs said the 50-year-old Goodell was choked up after reaching the tallest summit in the rugged Cascade range, a climb he made with Seahawks head coach Jim Mora.