Sports fans are long familiar with recovery stories of athletes rehabbing from injury, none greater than the one this year with Washington Football Team's QB, Alex Smith, returning to start this season after 17 surgeries to repair a leg broken gruesomely in 2018.

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In his fourth season, Sean McVay has become part of the woodwork in the Seahawks-Rams division rivalry. It's easy to take the Los Angeles Rams coach for granted, mostly because he's not a cartoon character, as were NFC West coaching predecessors Jim Harbaugh and Jeff Fisher.

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Apparently, the Seahawks can't count on Josh Gordon. Again.

A day after the NFL allowed him to return to the 53-man active roster ahead of the biggest game of the season Sunday against the Rams, the league stunned the club by disclosing that Gordon had not satisfied the terms of his conditional reinstatement, according to the Seattle Times Tuesday afternoon. Later, the league's house organ, the NFL Network, reported that Gordon, 29, “had a setback in his battle with substance abuse and now won’t be allowed to practice or play indefinitely.”

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The game of the season is upon the Seahawks Sunday. But since the previous meeting with the Rams in Los Angeles Nov. 15, the menu for the holiday weekend has changed: From #LetRussCook to potluck.

In the five games since the 23-16 loss, in which Russell Wilson was the victim of six sacks, 12 QB hits, two interceptions and a fumbled snap, he has nine touchdown passes, three interceptions and 10 sacks, including no sacks the past two games. And the Seahawks were 4-1: Beating the Cardinals 28-21 and the Eagles 23-17, losing to the Giants 17-12, and beating Jets 40-3 and Washington 20-15.

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Some young fans growing up in the Seattle-area market probably take the achievement of the NFL playoffs as a birthright. Jamal Adams, a 24-year-old kid, is not among them.

"Hell, yeah!" he shouted from the Zoom podium. It was plain to see it was his first time on the NFL zipline thrill ride.

"Man, where I come from, man . . . come on, man. I'm excited, man."

We hear you, man. Three seasons with the New York Jets. Man, this is Seattle stuff is different.

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Apparently, somebody at the University of Washington got to Jimmy Lake.

The idea he offered up Monday that the football team he coaches was going to have enough players ready to practice and play in a bowl game, given the roster havoc wrought by COVID-19, bordered on the absurd.  Athletics director Jen Cohen finally delivered Friday afternoon the only plausible decision that could be made:

Nope.

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In December, there's two kinds of bad luck in the NFL -- the draw, and health. The draw is the schedule -- who (and where) the games are played. Health is, of course, who on the roster remains ambulatory after months of cudgeling, thumping and clobbering.

For the final three games of the 2020 regular season, the Seahawks have the misfortune of drawing three of the top five defenses, based on yards allowed, starting Sunday in Washington.

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Apart from the fact of a four-game winning streak (combined score, 107-57), which includes the first defeat of the Steelers and beating the 49ers Sunday without the benefit of an offensive touchdown, the haggard Washington Football Team (6-7) abruptly and improbably has become a NFL-wide recipient of admiration, even affection.

This is like Rudy Giuliani being cast as the next James Bond.

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The week of the Apple Cup, when Washington State said it couldn't field a team to play Washington for the first time since World War II because of an outbreak of COVID-19, the Huskies football team that Friday had its first positive test for the virus.

Eighteen days later -- the day the long-awaited vaccines arrived at UW Medical Center --  we learned that infections and related quarantines spread so thoroughly through the Huskies and staff, including leaving "zero offensive linemen" able to play, according to coach Jimmy Lake Monday, that UW couldn't field a team to play USC in the Pac-12 Conference championship Friday night.

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The only drama of the Seahawks-Jets game Sunday at Lumen Field was afterward, when SS Jamal Adams met up with his former New York coach, Adam Gase. Spoiler alert: They did not slug it out. They hugged it out. End of drama. Which, for the New York tabloids, was a pity.

They had to toss away the preparedness back-page headlines for the hoped-for fight: Adams gets Ja-mauled. Adam-ic bomb goes off. Gase of hit-and-run.

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The twisting of the college-football pretzel by COVID-19 has come to this on the West Coast: By having its scheduled game Saturday in Eugene against Oregon canceled, the University of Washington (3-1) has won the North Division, and backed into the Pac-12 Conference game against South Division champ, and 16th-ranked, USC (5-0).

If the Huskies can field a team.

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When he said it Nov. 9, Jimmy Lake was early in his career as a professional shrugger.

“At this point, it really feels like we’re not surprised anymore,” Lake said on a Zoom conference with reporters discussing the failure by Cal to keep its program free of COVID-19 ahead of the "opener" in Berkeley with his Washington Huskies. “We’re just like, ‘OK, here we go. It’s on to the next. Let’s build a plan, and let’s get ready to go.'

"That’s all you can do at this point."

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As regards December, the essential directive for the Seahawks is to do all that it takes to win the Dec. 27 game home game against the Los Angeles Rams, who have won five of the past six in the series. Everything else is a means to that end.

Yes, fans have been schooled as recently as Sunday that it is unwise in the NFL to overlook the underdog. But it is part of human nature. Pete Carroll has said a few times that one of his principal tasks is to coach against human nature. He seems to have done it well.

The rest of us can play two games ahead.

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COVID-19 has made inroads into the University of Washington football team, enough that all team activities were paused Wednesday, and put the rest of the already brief season in jeopardy.

A notice from UW athletics was sent out Wednesday morning that an increase in positive tests has occurred, stating the program will undergo additional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing.

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Many are the ways to pick apart one of the worst losses in the Pete Carroll's Seahawks coaching tenure. But one seemingly minor misplay stuck in my head as perhaps the most WTF moment in the 17-12 loss Sunday to the New York Giants, which still has fans wiping off entrails as if they were at Monty Python's cinematic restaurant when Mr. Creosote ate the final "wafer-thin" mint.

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Somewhere between the 5-0 start when he was the darling of the NFL, and a spray of 10 turnovers that bore the brunt of the blame for three losses in four games, Russell Wilson lost a little something.

Not sure what it was. Swagger, edge, arrogance, something ineffable and immeasurable like that. It's probably not irretrievable. But its absence was mainly why the Seahawks scored only one touchdown Sunday against the New York Giants, after a modest two on Monday night in the win at Philadelphia.

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In its previous three games, two of which were defeats, Stanford converted a collective 17 of 46 third-down attempts (37 percent), or 94th among big-boy schools. In its fourth game Saturday at sunny Husky Stadium, they converted 10 of 13, and were 2-for-2 on fourth downs.

Either the Cardinal's orphan status -- they were kicked out of Santa Clara County by rigid COVID-19 protocols and spent the week working out at Kennedy High School and a public park in Bellevue -- did wonders for its execution, attitude and aggression, or the Washington Huskies have a fairly crappy defense.

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Just in case you blocked it out, here's a Seahawks chronology from one year ago:

Dec. 8, RB Rashaad Penny was lost for the season after tearing an ACL. Dec. 16, WR Josh Gordon was suspended for the season for the fifth time in eight years for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Dec. 22, RB Chris Carson was lost for the season with a cracked hip, the same day RB C.J. Prosise broke his arm and was lost for the season.

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It's December. When, historically under Pete Carroll, the Seahawks get good. For the next three weeks, the opponents are so weak that Seattle's progress toward Super Bowl contention will hard to measure. But that likely is acceptable.

Unless, of course, they lose to one among the 4-7 Giants, the 0-11 Jets and the 4-7 Whose Former Nickname No Longer Shall Be Mentioned. Then Christmas lights in Seattle will go dark. Kvetching, harrumphing and angry gesticulation will commence.

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After he destroyed them in the playoffs in January with nine catches and an NFL rookie record 160 yards, the Eagles had to come up with a plan for DK Metcalf Monday night in Philadelphia. Part of it included a trade for CB Darius Slay, one of the NFL's best cornerbacks. Another part of the plan was to piss off Metcalf.

It was a plan. Just a dumb one.

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