Now that Christine Michael is the starting running back for the immediate future -- a cracked fibula has sidelined starter Thomas Rawls for several games -- the Seahawks are more than eager to welcome back another man of mystery.

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QB Russell Wilson has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee that, with a brace and rehab, may allow him to play Sunday in New York against the Jets, according to coach Pete Carroll. But the news was not as good for RB Thomas Rawls, who is out "a few weeks" with damage to the fibula that is cracked.

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On an afternoon when just about everything went right for the Seahawks -- you know, like, touchdowns -- WR Doug Baldwin had an internal disorder shared with everyone wearing bird gear.

"My heart dropped," he said. "It was weird, because I hadn't felt like that in a long time."

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QB Russell Wilson "was really the best that he’s been in the last two weeks -- he looked really good today,” said Pete Carroll Friday. He also said WRs Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett are likely to go. RB Thomas Rawls and RG Germain Ifedi are unlikely to go.

And the Seahawks coach was persuaded that his players' growing political activism is no distraction heading into the 1 p.m. Sunday game against San Francisco at the Clink.

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WR Tyler Lockett was QB Russell Wilson’s best target Sunday in a 9-3 loss to the Rams, despite the fact that Lockett hurt his left knee in the second quarter and did not return until well after halftime. At practice Wednesday, Lockett said it would take more than a bum leg to stop him.

“You have to put me in a coffin in order for me not to play,” Lockett said.

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RENTON -- Richard Sherman understands that Seahawks fans see a football crisis nearing, what with a Super Bowl-caliber team sputtering along at 7.5 points a game. But after a few superficial remarks about the 49ers game Sunday at his presser Wednesday at team headquarters, he politely pivoted away to address what he sees as a real crisis.

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Bad 48 hours for Pete Carroll.

The Seahawks coach returned Saturday to Los Angeles, where once he was king with his bad-ass USC teams. But after being out-coached again by new nemesis Jeff Fisher, he left Sunday embarrassed partly because he discovered his latest bad-ass team is not bad-ass without Marshawn Lynch.

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Pete Carroll not only appeared rattled, but close to ashen when queried about his dithering offense Sunday following a 9-3 loss to the L.A Rams. Coming off a one-touchdown effort in a 12-10 win over Miami a week earlier, the Seahawks failed to score a single six-pointer against a Rams team shellacked 28-0 six days prior by the San Francisco 49ers.

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After two games of tepid offensive production, it's clear that the Seahawks haven't adjusted to a Russell Wilson diminished by an ankle injury.

"He looked OK, but he didn't have the same spring and pop he usually has," coach Pete Carroll said on his weekly Monday morning radio show on ESPN 710. "He's not the same guy who runs all over the field. He got out, and did a nice job making a few yards.

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The NFL has busted the Seahawks a third time for violating rules against excessive contact during off-season workouts. The league and players union announced Monday the club was fined $400,000, a fifth-round pick in the next draft and a week of organized team activities. Coach Pete Carroll was also fined $200,000.

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LOS ANGELES -- When a defense permits only nine points in an NFL game, it stretches credulity to ask the unit to do more. But that is the request of the House of Twelves -- get a turnover to provide an itsy-bitsy portion of the field so its limpy-skimpy Seahawks offense can score a touchdown.

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Takeaway

Embarrassed Monday night by San Francisco (28-0), the transplanted Rams continued their mastery of the Seahawks Sunday with a 9-3 victory in front of 91,046 at the Los Angeles Coliseum (box). With Russell Wilson impaired by a high ankle sprain, Seattle (1-1) failed to generate sufficient offense, self-destructed in a myriad of ways, and dropped its third in a row and fourth in five games to its most irksome NFC West rival.

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LOS ANGELES -- Say what you will about the NFL's inept meanderings through social issues. The most successful sports enterprise in America does know theater.

Bringing back to Hollywood the Rams after 21 years and Pete Carroll after seven years, in the same football game? Even scriptwriters for "Celebrity Apprentice" would cringe at the corny implausibility.

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In explaining his recovery from a sprained ankle, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is in new territory. After somehow never being seriously injured through four years in the NFL, he offered some observations that seemed to depart a bit from his standard script. Wilson said he:

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Former University of Washington C Olin Kreutz, who played in six Pro Bowls while a member of the Chicago Bears, is among 10 individuals with connections to the state of Washington nominated for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The full list of 94 players and coaches for the Class of 2017 will be trimmed to 25 in November and to 15 finalists in January. The class will be determined by vote on the eve of Super Bowl LI.

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If we all didn't know Russell Wilson to be the competitor that he is, it would be possible to speculate that the Seahawks quarterback picked a good week to get injured. In his eight career games against the Rams, he has been sacked 35 times. Ciara has probably asked about all those spiral horn prints on his ribs and back.

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The Seahawks Tuesday signed CB Neiko Thorpe, brought back (as expected) FB Will Tukuafu, and waived often-injured CB Tharold Simon. To make room on the 53-man roster for Thorpe and Tukuafu, Seattle waived rookie FB Tani Tupou, a former University of Washington defensive tackle.

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The Seahawks have added a quarterback, but not one to sub for Russell Wilson Sunday. Jake Heaps, who spent all preseason with the Seahawks before being cut, was re-signed to the practice squad Tuesday.

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After snatching a game-winning, two-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson Sunday with 31 seconds remaining, WR Doug Baldwin summed up his quarterback in a mere nine words: “He has shown a propensity to do miraculous things.” Aside from the fact that Baldwin might be the first wideout in NFL history to use "propensity" in a sentence, some might describe his words as hyperbole. They are not.

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A bit lost in Sunday's hubbub about the opening game, anthem demonstrations, QB Russell Wilson's ankle injury -- "He plans to play," said coach Pete Carroll Monday afternoon -- and the new offensive line's debut, was the fact that the Seahawks defense slapped the bejeezus out of the Dolphins and QB Ryan Tannehill.

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