The sustained success of the Seahawks under Pete Carroll, pickled with entertaining  personalities, has been so compelling that it is hard for many to remember that the Seahawks of an earlier time were just as cool, despite a coach who got away with saying in public, "Football players make football plays."

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It's one thing to try to impress the 12s with winning football. It's another thing to impress an audience of one -- Russell Wilson. The Seahawks need to show their quarterback that the recent tumult on the roster and the coaching staff will make him better off long-term in Seattle than anywhere else. Even if it would be far cheaper to start over with a rookie.

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The release of DE Cliff Avril, long expected after his neck injury Oct. 1 kept him out for the rest of the season, came to pass Friday when the Seahawks said he failed his physical exam. With DE Michael Bennett, traded to Philadelphia, they formed one of the premier pass-rushing duos in team history.

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Now that star FS Earl Thomas is likely to be a Seahawk for the 2018 season -- the draft came and went with the Seahawks reportedly getting no better offer than a third-round pick in trade for him -- the question becomes: What does he want?

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After nearing the league lead in human interest stories from the draft, it's time for the football question: Are the Seahawks any better?

The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that, in a vastly improved NFC West, it's probably not enough.

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Never in my time in Seattle sports has the arrival of a pro athlete evoked a response  sufficient to make its own weather. That's how I'm explaining the indoor rainfall on my face when I heard Shaquem Griffin was coming to playing football for the Seahawks.

I doubt I was the only one affected by a rain delay.

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The NFL draft's final day had seven selections for the Seahawks, and several intrigues beyond joining together the Griffin brothers in the biggest national human-interest story of the draft.

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The shadow of FS Earl Thomas on the Seahawks off-season has passed. Pete Carroll and John Schneider won't have to explain awkwardly how questionable personnel moves in 2017 forced them into trading a likely Hall of Fame player for a draft choice that wasn't even a first-rounder.

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The Seahawks took care of another personnel vacancy by re-signing CB Byron Maxwell Friday, according to NFL.com. The one-year deal is worth up to $3 million with incentives. Maxwell was re-acquired in November after Richard Sherman's season ended with an Achilles tendon injury, and was subsequently released.

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Since every running back in their future will be compared to Marshawn Lynch, the Seahawks figured Thursday night in the first round of the NFL draft they may as well fire up the replicant machine.

Here's the key feat in understanding what Rashaad Penny does well that Lynch did best in his five superhero years in Seattle: Making something out of nothing.

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Ken Hofmann, an owner with partner Ken Behring of the Seattle Seahawks from 1988 through 1997, died Sunday at 95. The Seahawks public relations department tweeted the news Tuesday evening. 

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If you're scoring at home the eight Seahawks drafts of the Pete Carroll/John Schneider era -- and with the first round for draft No. 9 starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, who isn't? -- here's my scorecard for handy reference.

First three drafts: Good to great. The next five: Mediocre to poor -- with an asterisk that the most recent two classes lack enough playing time for fair judgment.

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To listen to John Schneider and Pete Carroll tell it, one of the reasons the Seahawks find themselves in a tumultuous offseason is that they permitted too many cooks to spoil the stew of recent NFL drafts.

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After all the high-profile personnel changes this off-season, the Seahawks figured to have taken a shot to the glams. But in the release of the 2018 NFL schedule Thursday, Seattle is  booked for the maximum five prime-time games, including four of the season's final six. Apparently the TV networks want to see if the Seahawks most resemble "Lost,"  "The Apprentice" or "Game of Throwns."

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From a standpoint of spectacle last season, the Seahawks' 41-38 win Oct. 29 over the Houston Texans at the Clink was all Bourbon Street, Vegas strip and South Beach -- don't dare blink, or you'll miss something outlandish, voluptuous or ridiculous.

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Where does the long-tenured Seahawks fan rank the high draft selection last year of Malik McDowell? Ahead or behind Aaron Curry or  Jerramy Stevens? Where is the pick in relation to Rick Mirer and Dan McGwire? How about Owen Gill? Or the first draft pick in the 1976 expansion season, Steve Niehaus?

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Free agent Austin Davis, the back-up last season to QB Russell Wilson, returned to the Seahawks Monday on a one-year contract, the club said. NFL.com's Mike Garafolo reported that the deal doesn't necessarily mean the door is closed on talks with free agent Colin Kaepernick.

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The Seahawks Friday signed Sebastian Janikowski, one of the most productive kickers in NFL history, to replace Blair Walsh, an unrestricted free agent who had critical missed field goals in losses to Atlanta, Washington and Arizona last season. Janikowski, who signed for one year at undisclosed terms, is the second kicker signed by Seattle since the Walsh flop. Jason Myers, formerly of Jacksonville, was added in January.

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The Seahawks signed backup QB Stephen Morris Friday, the first quarterback to be added to the roster besides Russell Wilson. Colin Kaepernick, who was going to work out Monday for the Seahawks, remains a free agent after he declined to clarify his position on any pre-game protest against social injustice (see Thiel: Bennett's Book Helps Explain Balk at Kap).

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On the surface, Thursday's news that the Seahawks passed on a chance to work out a player because of his politics looked to be one of the more astonishing developments of the off-season. And since that player was QB Colin Kaepernick, it's astonishing on another, purely football,  level.

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