Michael Bennett's voice against social injustice just became louder, smarter and more irresistible.

Disclosure by Yahoo! Sports Wednesday of a lengthy memo (see below) from the Seahawks defensive end and three other NFL players to Commissioner Roger Goodell spelled out the causes behind the national-anthem protests. More strategically, included among several requests for support from the league was a call to dedicate an awareness month to social justice similar to what the NFL does for breast cancer awareness and supporting the military.

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To hear many in the NFL tell it, the spread offense in college football is the worst invention since the adobe submarine. Offensive linemen who make it to the NFL have no experience in the three-point stance used in run-blocking, which accounts for much of the epidemic of dorky offenses plaguing the league, including right here in Field Goal City.

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Asked if there was anything that would keep the Uptown Alliance from saying yes to the low-risk but high-pressure $600 million private proposal to make KeyArena a world-class entertainment showcase, Deborah Frausto paused, then perked up.

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And you thought the drama in the home opener was in watching the Seahawks season go down the drain with a second consecutive touchdown-free game. Behind the scenes, in the first quarter, the real drama was in the locker room when the escape from the infernal abyss began to come together.

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Fall training done, the sixth-ranked Washington Huskies (3-0) soon will have to go to class during the day, then go to work in the afternoon prepping for opponents of a caliber similar to their own. If they take anything from the eggless omelette of the preseason, which concluded Saturday night with a 48-16 win (box) over overwhelmed Fresno State, it is that they have a singular weapon capable of bending foes to his will and skill.

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Despite missing a couple of days of practice because of a sore hamstring, CB Richard Sherman was assessed as good to go for the Seahawks' home opener at 1:25 p.m. Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, at least according to coach Pete Carroll. The NFL official injury report still lists him as questionable.

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It's probably one of the more astonishing factoids in college football this season, but because it doesn't reflect well on anyone, it isn't brought up much: The first two seasonal opponents for Fresno State, which plays Washington Saturday at Husky Stadium (6:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks) were Alabama and, ahem, the University of the Incarnate Word.

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Lost in the lamentations over a kitten-soft offensive line Sunday was the fact that, despite the absence of a veteran cornerback and the presence of a rookie, the Seahawks defense  pitched a first-half shutout against QB Aaron Rodgers, a first for him in 13 NFL seasons.

Given that the Packers rung up 38 points on Seattle in December, holding them to 17 for the game was akin to denying the Kraken a pirate ship. No one has seen such a thing.

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Gathered Tuesday morning at a small plaza at the north end of KeyArena next to radio station KEXP, media members and other interested parties awaited a press conference by the Seattle mayor's office and Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke to discuss details of the draft memorandum of understanding they signed to create a grand concert hall/hockey arena/monument to Ed Murray at the Seattle Center.

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After a loss, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll's favorite all-purpose descriptor for his take on the outcome is: "Disappointing." It's a safe word not only because it's true, it doesn't reflect anger or despair, two emotions in a long season that Carroll deploys almost never. When he does, it counts.

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Given the bleakness that attended the performance of the offensive line, the Seahawks didn't deserve to win. At the same time, they can say beyond all question that they didn't deserve to lose Sunday's season-opening game in Green Bay because of two phantom calls on what proved to be the biggest play in another traditionally lamentable Sunday afternoon for Seattle at Lambeau Field.

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Dreadful as these college-football payday mismatches are -- the Montana Grizzlies received $625,000 to come get their snouts whacked in the big city -- the Washington Huskies rolled out an entertainment extravaganza Saturday night that made it fairly easy to ignore the 63-7 scoreboard travesty. Sort of like when Mom lets the kids skip the vegetables and permits dessert for dinner.

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As auspicious an opener as the Seahawks have Sunday in Green Bay, the New England Patriots opened the NFL season Thursday night with a suspicious one. Suspicious, in that if the one true thing that was known about the season was false, what else is at risk?

The Pats aren't likely to remain as bad as they looked in the 42-27 loss at home to the Kansas City Chiefs. My guess is that coach Bill Belichick is already on the phone to the Boston Red Sox, seeking to borrow their Apple watches.

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The friendship between Seahawks teammates Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett is filled with enough teasing man-banter that, as Avril put it, "We play around so much that sometimes, we don't know what's what."

But when Avril arrived at Bennett's Las Vegas hotel room early in the morning of Aug. 27 and the door opened, Avril knew something serious had gone down.

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As a red-haired Canadian punter, Jon Ryan had hints that he was destined to zig when the world zagged. Maybe it came from his mother, who had unusual advice for her son when he was about to leave for college.

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Twice during the media scrum Monday at Seahawks headquarters around new arrival Sheldon Richardson, the word "crazy" was uttered, once by him and once about him by coach Pete Carroll.

So it case you thought the first week of regular-season ball in Renton was going to be serene, you can park that notion.

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After perhaps the hardest hit he absorbed in his Huskies career, QB Jake Browning came up for air and into the face of coach Chris Petersen.

"First thing he said to me was, 'I was up in two seconds,'" Petersen reported Monday. "He's a tough guy.

"He's fine."

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If you need a single data point to explain the Seahawks' urgency to acquire Jets bad-boy DT Sheldon Richardson for a second-round draft choice -- oh, yes, WR Jermaine Kearse too -- here it is:

65-27.

That's the combined score of the past two games in Lambeau Field against Packers QB Aaron Rodgers.

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Rarely has the University of Washington traveled so far to play a football game. So perhaps there should be little surprise they seemed Friday night ready in the season opener to fall off the edge of the earth, right there in Piscataway, N.J.

At times out-muscled and often underwhelming, the awkward Huskies finally cobbled together their dignity for a 30-14, season-opening win (box) over a much more resolute Rutgers team than the one they pasted a year ago in Seattle, 48-13.

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The pre-cutdown Seahawks whirlwind continued Friday afternoon at the VMAC with news that CB Tramaine Brock, signed recently a free agent, was traded to Minnesota for a seventh-round draft pick, according to NFL.com. That suggests that veteran CB Jeremy Lane, rumored to be on the trading block largely for purposes of the salary cap, is apparently safe. For now.

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