Plenty still to fix for Hawks

Pete Carroll’s first training camp as the Seahawks’ head coach wrapped up Thursday.

The work, however, has just begun.

A team that has won just nine games in the past two seasons doesn’t fix things overnight – or in a three-week training camp, for that matter – and with three preseason games remaining, including a home game tonight against Green Bay, there is a lot Carroll wants his team to accomplish before the games start counting next month.

“Oh, there’s everything,” Carroll said when asked what the team still needs to work on.

After last weekend’s preseason opener, a 20-18 win over Tennessee, one area of concern that Carroll singled out is the run game. The hope is that a new left side of the line – including first-round pick Russell Okung, as well as the addition of renowned line coach Alex Gibbs – will lead to a big improvement for a team that ranked 26th in the NFL in rushing last season. But in Seattle’s first preseason game, the offense averaged just 3.1 yards per carry, and had to revert to the pass more than offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates would have liked.

“We’d like to be 50-50 and we’ll say that the rest of the year,” Bates said. “

One difference in the run game will be the debut of running back Leon Washington. Washington, who came to Seattle in a draft-weekend trade with the New York Jets, suffered a tibia/fibula compound fracture last October, and while he has been able to practice, he was held out of the preseason opener. The dynamic back should be involved in the offense tonight.

And tonight’s game will provide a better glimpse of what the running game, as well as the rest of team, can accomplish. The starters, including quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, will see substantially more playing time than they did last weekend, giving a better glimpse at what the Seahawks might look like in the regular season.

“Our guys will play more in this game,” Carroll said.

• A Seahawks spokesman confirmed to the Associated Press that Seattle has been talking with San Diego about acquiring holdout wide receiver Vincent Jackson, a Pro Bowler coming off his second straight 1,000-yard season.

The spokesman said the Seahawks were granted permission by the Chargers to talk to the wide receiver a couple of weeks ago.

Jackson has not reported to training camp because he is unhappy with being a restricted free agent in San Diego. He wants a multiyear contract.

Terrell Owens caught a 43-yard pass from Carson Palmer along the sideline, setting up the only touchdown by the Bengals’ starting offense in a preseason victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in Cincinnati.

Owens had three catches for 67 yards in the first half.

Around the league

Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin is back with the team after an overnight hospital stay following a scary migraine attack, though his return to the field remains unclear. Harvin will not travel with the team to San Francisco for Sunday’s exhibition game against the 49ers. … Bills tight end Shawn Nelson has been suspended four games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. … Two-time Pro Bowl guard Shawn Andrews is giving football one last shot and it’s going to be with the Giants. After working out the former Eagles star at training camp, the Giants signed Andrews early Friday morning.