Looking for a trenchant statement about the events of the afternoon and its impact on the season, we turn to Seahawks WR Tyler Lockett, scorer Sunday of the Seahawks' only touchdown, although it was one of two TD passes thrown by Russell Wilson.

"The lesson was," he said, "you can't get away with everything."

Well put.

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Given Washington's bumpy, 2-2 start to its Pac-12 Conference play, being ahead 28-14 at home against the 12th-ranked Oregon Ducks early in the third quarter Saturday had to make the Huskies feel large and in charge.

Which, of course, turned out to be the problem.

These 2019 Huskies have not earned the right to cockiness in a conference game. They are a middling team in a fairly soft Power 5 outfit, and can't get away with easing against the league's one good team.

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In the middle of the night in Tucson the past Saturday, the Washington Huskies apparently woke up screaming. Well, maybe not screaming, but mad. Or startled. Or disturbed. Maybe just perturbed.

Whatever the calibration, it was halftime against the Arizona Wildcats, who were ahead, 17-13. The Huskies just completed a sixth consecutive quarter of football that bordered on the comatose. Since they ended up winning 51-27, clearly something hysterical, spiritual or pharmaceutical happened in the intermission locker room.

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However a Seattle fan may feel about the unceremonious end of the Seahawks career of Earl Thomas, you now have the knowledge that at least you're in his head.

"Yes, I've thought about it at night," Thomas told reporters in Baltimore Wednesday. "Hopefully they respect what I've done, and I'll get a couple cheers, not too many boos. And whatever happens, happens. But hopefully it's love."

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Besides the Seahawks at 5-1, only five other NFL teams have less than two losses: New England (6-0), San Francisco (5-0), New Orleans (5-1), Green Bay (5-1) and Buffalo (4-1). Though rewards are few in football for the claim of Misters October, it's at least comforting for 12s knowing that a climb out of the well is not an agenda item on the team's to-do list.

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Amid the shards, leaks, broken glass and trash fires of a 20-6 deficit Sunday in Cleveland against the irked Browns, it seemed apparent that as good as the record was, the 2019 Seahawks weren't going to be a dominant team. Just too many talent deficits to be championship caliber.

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After six consecutive quarters of brutal college football, the Washington Huskies heard the giant sucking sound of a season going down the drain. Or, it could have been the Oregon Ducks snorting heavily. Whatever the source of the early audio horror on a warm Saturday night in Tucson against the University of Arizona, a moment was at hand.

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The Seahawks offensive line is in injury trouble -- two starters, LT Duane Brown (biceps)  and RG D.J. Fluker (hamstring) are likely out of Sunday's game at Cleveland (10 a.m., FOX), and versatile backup Ethan Pocic was put on the injured reserve list with a back problem.

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Based on the Monday night game in which the San Francisco 49ers gashed the Browns for 275 yards rushing in a 31-3 triumph, here's a brilliantly conceived game plan for the Seahawks game in Cleveland Sunday: Give the ball 40 times to Chris Carson and his fellow running backs, leaving about 10 pass attempts for Russell Wilson.

The Seahawks would win, by about 41-17. Pete Carroll, you can thank me later.

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Halfway through the regular season, the Washington Huskies offense is sixth in points per game in the Pac-12 Conference (34), eighth in yards per pass attempt (8.0), ninth in total passing yards (244.7), and 10th in third-down conversions (40 percent).

If someone had told any discerning Huskies fan in August that those would be the mid-season numbers, he or she likely would have said, "How did Jake Browning get a fifth year of eligibility?"

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And you thought the Washington Huskies' annual dork game was the 20-19 home loss to Cal, a contest that at least had the nearly three-hour weather delay that might be twisted, by a guy with huge forearms, into some some sort of pathetic excuse.

Turns out the dork game was Saturday night in Palo Alto. Unless, of course, this is a double-dork season.

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A side benefit for Pete Carroll on Greg Zuerlein's missed field goal that re-ignited the Seahawks season Thursday was that it relegated a fan favorite, debating the coach's judgments on third and fourth downs, to also-ran status. The 30-29 outcome couldn't have been more narrow, but the narrative couldn't have changed more completely.

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After absorbing the astonishments, the gaffes, the greatness of stars and the resolve of scrubs, and exhilaration and despair often in consecutive plays across more than three hours of exquisite tension Thursday night, the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks demonstrated why pro football can be so compelling.

And random. Or cosmic. Depends on your point of view.

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When the 2019 NFL schedule came out, the first calendar date circled in Seattle was Thursday night's game at the Clink between the Seahawks and the Los Angeles Rams. The national-TV match between division rivals and 2018 playoff teams was expected to have all the habanero hot sauce anyone could expect for the first week in October.

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News Monday that the four California schools in the Pac-12 Conference were given legal permission to allow their football players in the future to receive outside income, which is not allowed for Washington players, did not muss a single one of coach Chris Petersen tightly coiffed hairs.

He has a football game to win Saturday, fools.

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On multiple levels, the loss at home last week to the New Orleans Saints minus Drew Brees was among the worst in the Seahawks tenure of coach Pete Carroll. Bad as was the coach getting hit in the nose with an errant pre-game football,  the outcome's blow to the collective ego was worse.

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Despite all the controversies and travail surrounding USC, the most scandal-ridden university in the country (non-sports as well as sports), it is still Trojans football. Even if they were now supposedly running an Air Raid offense with a third-string quarterback, they were still 3-1 and ranked 21st after a surprising win last week over 10th-ranked Utah.

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For all the bad juju that attends Seahawks games at Arizona, since Pete Carroll has been head coach, they are 6-2-1 in the Glendale House of Odd (and 0-1 in other games). For a division rival, that's good. Although in Carroll's time, the Cardinals have won four of nine at the Clink. So mere records don't tell the story.

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In February 2013, when the Mariners announced their massive contract extension for Felix Hernandez, which is coming to its merciful end next week, two developments foreshadowed the move.

After a third consecutive losing season (75 wins, following seasons of 67 and 61), Mariners' average attendance in 2012 at then-Safeco Field fell to 21,258, still the stadium's all-time low. Considering that 10 years earlier, the average was 43,710, the Mariners had lost half their in-house audience.

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Apart from the blown coaching calls, clock mismanagement, penalties and poor execution that turned the Seahawks for a day into The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Monday analysis of the 33-27 loss to the Saints can come down to ordinary football production from the prime running backs.

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