Pete Carroll tried to make everything sound OK with the Seahawks' offensive line, but minutes after he spoke with reporters Monday, a trade was made with Philadelphia that brought Matt Tobin, 27, who, according to Pro Football Focus, was given in 2016 the worst pass-protection grade ever for a guard since the analytics site began in 2007.

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The season-ending loss of LT George Fant was as hard an injury punch to the gut as the Seahawks have taken in awhile, made irksome because it came in a meaningless game. Fant's trajectory was so positive, after an off-season physical makeover, that he already had locked down the vital O-line spot despite only eight regular-season games of NFL and college experience.

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If it were possible for an exhibition football game result to be more irrelevant than usual, the Seahawks' 20-13 triumph Friday night at the Clink over the Minnesota Vikings qualified, on two opposite counts.

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DE Michael Bennett kept to his plan of sitting out the national anthem, but was joined, surprisingly, at the bench by C Justin Britt, who stood to his left with a hand on Bennett's shoulder Friday night before the Seahawks-Vikings exhibition game at the Clink.

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In his first couple of seasons with the Seahawks, Justin Britt's NFL future looked a little shaky. Now it just looks wealthy.

Firmly established as one the NFL's better centers, Britt was rewarded with a three-year contract extension Thursday worth up to $27 million, with $15 million guaranteed. He'll make $13.25 million next season, according to the NFL Network.

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The Port of Seattle finally is getting in Sodo what it has sought for a quarter-century -- freight mobility relief in the form of the Lander Street Bridge, which will carry trucks and cars over the railroad tracks that make for a daily traffic nightmare.

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The Seahawks have signed to a one-year contract former 49ers CB Tramaine Brock, who was cleared of domestic violence charges last week in Santa Clara, CA. He was signed for the minimum for a seven-year player, $900,000. He made $2.7 million last season.

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Add two more to the long list of people anguished over the grim, non-sports news of the weekend: Oday Aboushi and Pete Carroll. One was crushed to see his college hometown awash in hate and blood, the other surprised to see a player he thought he knew well fuel a national controversy by, without notice, sitting out the national anthem.

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Regarding his professional athletic life, Michael Bennett is paid to be a disrupter. Regarding his personal life, the Seahawks star is a disrupter by choice. He's bringing the latter to a conscience near you. Perhaps your own.

For some 12s, it's about to get awkward. Which is, of course, his point. If you choose to shut him out, he'll come to the attention of your kids.

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If you skipped the Seahawks' first exhibition game because, well, you don't do training wheels, you missed a little something Sunday night: Scores on the first six possessions, 458 yards of offense, four spectacular catches from hard-luck WR Kasen Williams, four defensive turnovers and modest amounts of their own turnovers (one) and penalties (five).

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Watching Edgar Martinez be the respectable, graceful stoic he always has been Saturday night at Safeco Field, I couldn't help thinking how much fun it would have been to see him turn to the visiting dugout and say, "Hey, Angels -- you suck!"

Except that it would have induced about 45,000 heart attacks, and no one wants that. Everyone wanted Martinez to be Martinez, so he was. It was plenty.

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What will end first: The regular season or the Mariners' solid bullpen performances?

In the wins at Oakand Tuesday and Wednesday, the bullpen produced 9.2 scoreless innings, which helped make for a 6-3 road trip and a 16-9 record since the All-Star break, best in the American League. The Mariners began Thursday three games above .500 (59-56) for the first time this season, and in possession of the second wild-card berth.

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In terms of personnel choices, the Seahawks have always done better at bottom of the draft, especially among undrafted players. But the top end? It really hasn't looked worse than this first week in training camp.

DT Malik McDowell (2017's 35th pick), RT Germain Ifedi (No. 31 in 2016) and DE Frank Clark (63rd in 2015) all sat out Monday's annual team scrimmage -- the first 11-on-11, game-conditions practice, albeit no tackling -- under dubious circumstances.

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Nearing the end of a dubious first week of training camp, the haze over the Seahawks lifted a bit Friday with the first practice appearance of irrepressible WR Tyler Lockett, the football amalgam of Pharrell Williams, roller coasters, banjo music and Corgi puppies. Smile avoidance is impossible.

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A team perennially short on solid offensive linemen lost one temporarily Thursday when presumptive starting RT Germain Ifedi was struck in the face during a practice melee that resulted in the ejection of his assailant, DE Frank Clark, who was escorted off the VMAC field.

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Tim Leiweke has based a fair part of his pitch to remodel KeyArena on the notion that his many years spent in the drawing rooms of the NBA and NHL overlords have accorded him privileged wisdom when it comes understanding the mysteries of these titans of commerce and sports.

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Two years ago nearly to the day, SS Kam Chancellor rocked the Seahawks' world no less harshly than he rocks the world of crossing-route ballcatchers. His contract holdout that made no sense put the Seahawks in a place they rarely found themselves: No Plan B.

Coach Pete Carroll, who prides himself on preparing for most consequences, wasn't ready for the inexplicable absence of Chancellor's rare combo of calm leadership and ferocious play.

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SS Kam Chancellor is having himself a milestone off-season: He married longtime girlfriend Tiffany Luce, had bone spurs removed from both ankles on the same day, and apparently is on the verge of a contract extension with the Seahawks.

"I love my life," he said Monday, grinning. "I love my wife."

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Anytime most of us come back from summer vacation, there's a decent chance we are qualified to become Porky Pig's stunt double. But that is not permitted in professional sports, where the only cartoon character allowed in NFL camps is The Roadrunner (with the exception of Yosemite Sam, played by Bill Belichick).

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Bad start to the Seahawks season.

An all-terrain vehicle accident a couple of weeks ago has Seahawks' top draftee DE/DT Malik McDowell home resting in Michigan and out of training camp. He could miss part or all of the season, according to coach Pete Carroll Sunday, the first day of  camp.

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