While a few others in the dwindling field of elite college football teams wobbled Saturday, Washington State wowed.

Piling up 407 yards and 55 points by halftime, the Cougars splattered Arizona 69-28 (box) Saturday night in Pullman -- Gardner Minshew had a school-record seven touchdown passes -- to set up an Apple Cup lollapalooza at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Martin (box)Stadium.

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Entering the game, Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson were ranked N0. 1 and No. 2 in quarterback passer rating. Career. In NFL history.

So this is what happened Thursday night on national TV.

Wilson threw a backward pass that went forward, and a forward pass that went backward. Rodgers, on third-and-two on the Packers 33-yard line with 4:20 left that represented the final chance for Green Bay to win, chunked a pass maybe six yards into the Clink's rubberized dirt that might have been the worst pressure pass of his illustrious career.

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Here's a provocative question entering the Thursday night game at the Clink against the Green Bay Packers:

What if the Seahawks are good?

As in, nearly-run-the-table good. As in, winning six of their final seven, starting with the Packers, to finish 10-6 and qualify for the playoffs.

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One way to look at the events of Sunday afternoon in the Coliseum is that among the beleaguered people of Southern California who were able to seek a three-hour respite from despair, the Seahawks and Rams provided distraction with some splendid entertainment. The Rams won. Good for all concerned.

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When the Los Angeles Rams last were seen locally Oct. 7, Seahawks LB K.J. Wright watched from the Clink sidelines, recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. He remembered that things were bad that afternoon, but as often is the case with things like car accidents, the brain, out of self-preservation, obscures many details.

Such as 30 first downs and 468 yards of total offense.

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The Seahawks have lost games by three, seven, two and eight points, the latter two to likely playoff teams in the 6-2 Chargers and 8-1 Rams.

The outcomes have the Seahawks 4-4 at the regular season's mid-point, suggesting a team not far from consideration as playoff-worthy. But as with a PGA tournament field, there are many premier golfers who have missed the cut for want of a longer putt or shorter iron shot.

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The best sports teams are able to do over and over that which they do best. Which explains how the Seahawks are 4-4 at the seasonal midpoint. A week after they were running with BMW smoothness for a win at Detroit, they came home Sunday for the first time in a month and blew gaskets, threw rods, overheated and under-performed.

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Complimenting QB Philip Rivers on his football intelligence, LB Bobby Wagner recalled from the preseason game between the Chargers and Seahawks when Rivers called a timeout at the line of scrimmage, knowing his play call would be doomed against Seattle's defensive set. More impressively, Rivers even knew the name of the Seahawks' play.

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Jack Patera was a man of minimal words, backed by a maximum glare that could melt steel. After they lost to the Giants 32-0 in the Kingdome in 1981 to fall to 1-6, Seahawks players were prepared to be, well, vaporized in the locker room by their intimidating coach.

"Congratulations, gentlemen," he said. "You're now the worst team in the NFL. I'll see you tomorrow. Full gear."

That was it. That was enough.

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Seemed like a worthy try in training camp, giving 34-year-old Brandon Marshall, once one of the NFL's premier receivers, a free-agent shot at being the big red-zone target the Seahawks lost when TE Jimmy Graham wasn't re-signed. But Tuesday the Seahawks released him, according to ESPN.com, a victim of too many drops and the rise of WR David Moore.

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The NFL suspension of LB Mychal Kendricks will end in time for him to rejoin the Seahawks for the Dec. 10 Monday night game against Minnesota, Pro Football Talk reported Tuesday. After he met Monday with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, the indefinite suspension Kendricks drew Oct. 2 was changed to eight games, with credit for time served.

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It was Throwback Sunday for the Seahawks in Detroit.

176 yards rushing. Perfect quarterback rating. No turnovers, and three by the opponents, who had less than 15 points and fewer than 50 yards rushing.

The Glory Days, Part Deux.

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Just ahead of the NFL trade deadline Tuesday, the Seahawks added a veteran blocking tight end for the cost of no players or draft picks, not long after rookie flash Will Dissly from the University of Washington went down with a season-ending knee injury.

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Of all the players who have moved on from the Seahawks championship team to other NFL outposts, WR Golden Tate was the most costly departure. Combining Tate with Doug Baldwin from 2014 to 2018 would have been a tandem to put wrinkles in the brows of defensive coordinators and a smile on the face of QB Russell Wilson.

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For a sports marketplace that lost an MLB team in 1970, an NBA team in 2008, and lost temporarily its NFL team for a couple of weeks in 1996, the theoretical threat of relocation of the Seahawks in the wake of the death of owner Paul Allen provokes an understandable twitch. Especially given the random ruthlessness that appears to drive the business of American pro sports.

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Talking with Tod Leiweke about Paul Allen, I said one guy I thought might have a chance to get to know Allen, who was hard to know, was Marshawn Lynch. Leiweke smiled.

"They clicked," he said.

Techno-geek and Beast Mode?

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Seahawks fans returning to Seattle from London dazzled by the reception they and the team received need to know that 21 years ago, the franchise was about to be toe-tagged, the remains likely sold to swells from Hollywood. After seasons of 7-9, 2-14, 6-10, 6-10, 8-8, 7-9, 8-8 and 7-9, no local rich guy wanted to be within a mile of the stink created by the franchise's cretinous owner, Ken Behring.

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To paraphrase a famous English athlete with jersey number 007, the Raiders were shaken, the Brits were stirred.

In London this week, the Seahawks found two things: A home away from home, and a turning point.

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It's a shame that the Seahawks didn't play the Rams in London. The underground there has a famous visual and audio warning to tube riders about the space between the cars and the station platforms: "Mind The Gap."

Had the Seahawks followed the legendary British admonition at the Clink Sunday, they likely would have delivered the season's first loss to the Rams. If the defense again mishandles the space between the run stoppers and the long-ball defenders Sunday against Oakland at Wembley Stadium, the Seahawks likely will be 2-4.

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To this day, the biggest single difference in the Seahawks from the glory days is the absence of RB Marshawn Lynch. Coach Pete Carroll and management won't admit to that publicly, and there's only eight of his teammates remaining, so the internal eyewitnesses dwindle. But one, WR Doug Baldwin, was willing Tuesday to testify to Lynch's ability to command a field and a locker room.

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