The path the Seahawks have taken to get to 10-2 and the top of the NFC West is mindful of the old Paris-Dakar auto rally, the off-road endurance race in Africa where participants had to survive heat, mud, dunes, floods, criminals, animals, washouts and blowouts. The goal is not to end the day upside down.

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As closely aligned as are the quarterback careers of Russell Wilson and Kirk Cousins, in college and the NFL, there's one big discrepancy.

Wilson has eight playoff wins and two Super Bowl appearances. Cousins has none of either.

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The last time they played in Seattle, how bad did the Minnesota Vikings suck?

So bad that Vikings coach Mike Zimmer the next day fired his first-year offensive coordinator, John DeFilippo -- in December, when the Vikings were 6-6-1 and still in playoff contention.

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A breakthrough.

The Seahawks won a football game when Russell Wilson didn't display every superpower on the roster of The Avengers.

As likely you are aware, the Seahawks have become so reliant on Wilson that there was talk he might adopt the entire team as dependents. After all, a rich guy like Wilson needs every tax deduction he can get.

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Remember when Philadelphia Eagles were the trendiest thing in the NFL? Me, neither.

The Eagles, whom the Seahawks play in Philly Sunday (10 a.m., FOX), were immediate national darlings when they smited Emperor Palpatine and his Storm Troopers in Super Bowl LII. 

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Could it be that the Seahawks defense is . . . well, um, you know . . . respectable?

One game proves nothing, but it did inspire speculation after the Seahawks' 27-24 overtime over San Francisco last week that the weak link might be made of something other than straw and duct tape.

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Well, who wouldn't want a zippy drone delivering a kale/arugula smoothie from Whole Foods to your seat at the Clink, then after the Seahawks game, take a Blue Origin space shuttle into low earth orbit to beat the Seattle traffic?

All this and more can be yours, 12s, once Jeff Bezos buys the Seahawks.

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Veteran Seahawks fans by now know well one of the principal verses in the Book of First Carrollians: You can't win the game in the first quarter. You can't win the game in the second quarter. You can't win the game in the third quarter. You can win the game in the fourth quarter.

But the latest two weeks of evidence may require a modest change in the sacrament:

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When your children's children's children hear you talk about the Monday Night Football game of Eleven Eleven Nineteen, they will whisper among themselves: "How come the implant in his brain doesn't shut off the babble?"

The oldest child explains, "That is the only one the government allows to pass. It keeps them happy."

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As someone who has spent a good chunk of life dealing with addiction, WR Josh Gordon knows a little bit about hard tasks. So mastering a playbook from a new football team would seem a trifle. But that too is a lift.

“I’ve had to do it a few times with different coaches, different teams obviously," he said Saturday after practice, his first media session since the Seahawks surprised the NFL this week by claiming him off waivers from New England. "It can be difficult. It can be hard on the fly.

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Richard Sherman would love nothing better than to help San Francisco, a franchise he helped crater starting in 2013, do this season to the Seahawks what his old club had done to the 49ers for much of the decade: Step on their throats and twist.

Sherman, a California native, Stanford grad and Seattle-area resident, then could say he helped weaponize and vaporize his two favorite NFL franchises. The ultimate power trip.

Aren't revenge games fun?

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Besides the win, the Seahawks earned something else Sunday in beating, barely, Tampa Bay: Knowledge that C Joey Hunt, DK Metcalf and TE Jake Hollister can be reliable players, and that there's room for newcomer WR Josh Gordon in the offense, should he deign to be a regular participant in practice.

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Russell Wilson. Fercripesakes.

In terms of mastery of craft, the Seahawks quarterback is approaching a level of enlightenment that is thrilling to the point of chilling.

On the final three possessions of a preposterous 40-34 overtime win over Tampa Bay Sunday, he took the Seahawks on scoring drives of 75, 48 and 70 yards. Except PK Jason Myers missed a potential game-winning field goal on the middle drive, necessitating the third drive in OT.

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Richard Sherman, meet new Seahawk Josh Gordon. Josh, meet ex-Seahawk Richard.

See you both at a high point in the end zone on a Monday night.

In three sentences, that's largely why the Seahawks would hire a messed-up dude like Gordon, waived Thursday by the New England Patriots.

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One of the most remarkable things about the NFL is how swiftly things that seem solid turn to pudding.

Look at the 1-7 Atlanta Falcons, who blew a 28-3 lead and lost a Super Bowl to New England two years ago, and now the franchise's bones are bleaching in the Georgia sun. Consider the undefeated San Francisco 49ers this year, coming from the latest (4-12) in a string of reliably wretched seasons to instantly become the early-1990s Dallas Cowboys.

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Pete Carroll answered in a light-hearted manner. But as is often the case, truth lurks beneath the humor.

To the question of whether the final hours prior to the NFL's trade deadline at 1 p.m. Tuesday was going to be hectic, the Seahawks coach answered, "I don't think it's going to entertain me as much as I would like. It seems kinda quiet. As much as we worked to get to this point, we're kinda hoping things start picking up a little bit."

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Sunday in Atlanta, the narrative of the game foreshadowed precisely the season: Good first half, and who the hell knows about the second half.

The Seahawks are 6-2 after the 27-20 blowout-turned-passout triumph (box and video highlights) over the woebegone Falcons (1-7). Yet even The Man of Eternal Sunshine wasn't kidding himself.

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Napping at home in the Detroit suburbs with his three-month-old daughter, Quandre Diggs Tuesday was awakened by the abrupt rudeness of the NFL. The Seattle Seahawks had an emergency in their secondary, and he was chosen to bail them out. Bring buckets, water coming in fast.

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For those following the major sub-plot Sunday from the Clink stands, where the whole field can be seen, the verdict likely was unanimous. Earl Thomas wasn't the same. His famed lateral speed was reduced, and his tackling aggression seemed diminished. On one first-half play where he set up as usual, alone in the final third, he turned to head downfield by himself, tripped on his own feet and fell flat on his face.

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Looking for a trenchant statement about the events of the afternoon and its impact on the season, we turn to Seahawks WR Tyler Lockett, scorer Sunday of the Seahawks' only touchdown, although it was one of two TD passes thrown by Russell Wilson.

"The lesson was," he said, "you can't get away with everything."

Well put.

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