RENTON -- A couple of  Seahawks players sounded as if Sunday will include more drama than merely the start of the 2016 season, for which they are among the favorites for another Super Bowl appearance. On Sept. 11, they may join teammate CB Jeremy Lane, who made a protest statement during the national anthem in Oakland.

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Our long regional nightmare is over -- the Seahawks' 2016 offensive line, a rolling mystery seemingly without end, is resolved.

Garry Gilliam will start at right tackle, as he did a year ago, newcomer Bradley Sowell will start at left tackle, while J'Marcus Webb, the Seahawks' most expensive purchase in free agency, will watch quietly from the sidelines.

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As a sophomore in 2014, John Ross took it to the house on plays of 91, 20, 55, 75, 86, 100 and 96 yards, an average of 75 yards per touchdown play. Then he hurt his right knee in spring ball. The day after he learned he would need surgery to fix a torn ACL, the Huskies wide receiver entered on his smartphone calendar for Sept. 3, 2016 an image of the mascot of the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University.

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For a game that entered the fourth quarter with a 5-3 score, the evening was more intriguing than anyone familiar with the history of final NFL preseason games had a right to expect.

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The short pass, a screamer, was on its way from QB Russell Wilson before RB C.J. Prosise turned to look. Three yards deep in the end zone on an out route, Prosise, in seemingly one moment, looked back, put his feet down and his hands in front of his face, and made a flawless, instant-stop catch a few inches inside the sideline.

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Since some fans asked, "What would Russell Wilson do?“ after the Colin Kaepernick dust-up over the national anthem, the Seahawks quarterback responded Tuesday with a lengthy, polished answer that said all the right things, supporting all sides and leaving no room for controversy.

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Despite starting out ranked 14th in the country in the Associated Press poll, following numerous preseason predictions of a potential North Division Pac-12 championship, coach Chris Petersen felt compelled to sell Washington fans on the necessity of coming out to the season opener against Rutgers at 11 a.m. Saturday at Husky Stadium.

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As the firestorm builds -- not coincidentally in a most cacophonous presidential election year -- over QB Colin Kaepernick's decision to sit for the national anthem before the 49ers-Packers game Friday, let's all do ourselves a favor and consider this point:

We are historically, politically and socially, a nation of dissenters. It is the thing that keeps us together and tears us apart.

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It wasn't time to set off the emergency klaxons, but QB Russell Wilson must have sensed the unease at the Clink after the Seahawks' No. 1 unit failed to score in its first six preseason possessions. On the seventh try Thursday night, Wilson unleashed such a masterpiece of a touchdown pass that thousands of antacid tablets were thrown away in glee.

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Taking a baseball team's pennant-race temperature on a daily basis generally is a dubious exercise, sort of like estimating a hummingbird's speed on a single beat of its wings. Having said that, there is this:

The Yankees look good.

Ah, but you want to know about the Mariners.

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If a Seahawks fan were told that at seven years, FS Earl Thomas and SS Kam Chancellor were the longest-tenured Seattle defenders, there likely would no surprise. So . . . who's tied with CB Richard Sherman and LB K.J. Wright at six years?

If you knew it was LB Mike Morgan, you have earned a gold star that accessorizes your blue/green face paint.

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As one of the most formidable defenders in the NFL, Seahawks DE Michael Bennett has a ruthless desire to bring mayhem to opponents' game plans. As one of the most thoughtful players in NFL, he has a refined sense of threat to his earning power that occurs with every snap of the ball. To him, it's never a game, or a practice -- it's a job.

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Wandering among the archives of ghastly Mariners losses is a bleak, fruitless exercise. Best to avoid comparisons and put the one Sunday into an unmarked box and mis-locate it in a vast warehouse, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

But over the final 39 games of the regular season, its recollection actually could serve a purpose, should the Mariners again find themselves thinking they are hot stuff.

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We'd like to offer up a genuine quarterback controversy. It's been years since Hasselbeck/Dilfer, and the Seahawks preseason needs drama. So here we go: TD drives led so far -- Trevone Boykin 2, Russell Wilson 0.

Unfortunately, the market for that controversy is slim, although judging by the presidential campaign, false narratives are not without support in this country.

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The move doesn't have the emotional impact of, say, Kyle Seager's game-saving defensive play Wednesday in Anaheim. But the Mariners' most significant maneuver in more than two decades was approved Thursday by a vote of MLB owners: The sale of controlling interest of the franchise to a group led by John Stanton -- the first local resident to own the Mariners since the original owners of the 1977 expansion club.

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As Seahawks fans have come to learn, QB Russell Wilson never says a bad thing about anyone or anything. Not even if Malcolm Butler criticized Ciara's singing.

Wilson's world is like The Lego Movie song: "Everything is awesome!" Nevertheless, when he says that the current team is the most talented of his Seattle tenure that has included two Super Bowl appearances, a note shall deservedly be made. 

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RENTON -- Certainly the first preseason game Saturday was a massive disappointment for those expecting the Seahawks offensive line to work like one of the welded-together junk vehicles that blow out early in the Mad Max films. But for those who have faith in Tom Cable's mantra, borrowed from the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor your huddled masses . . . ," things went OK in KC.

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Newcomer Bradley Sowell will start at left tackle when the Seahawks open the preseason at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Kansas City (KCPQ Fox, Ch. 13), and Garry Gilliam will move back to right tackle, where he started a year ago. J'Marcus Webb, a free agent signee penciled in at right tackle, won't make the trip because of a twisted knee.

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If the pain didn't already make it obvious, Seahawks TE Jimmy Graham had a powerful visual image that his eventual return to the NFL would be hard.

"The pain was pretty terrible, for sure," he said. "When you look down at your knee and you don’t see your kneecap, you know something’s wrong.”

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Here's how awkward the running back scene is for the Seahawks: At 25, Christine Michael is the gray eminence. The guy who four years ago showed up thinking he knew everything and discovered he knew little, is now mentoring the herd of kids the Seahawks are throwing into the gaping void left by the retirement of Marshawn Lynch.

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