Absent blocking and tackling, mini-camp football for the outsider is a little like watching a dance through a keyhole in the ballroom door. Glimpses and flashes of movement lead to no reliable conclusions as to whether things are being done right.

So after the Seahawks' spring dance ended Thursday, insiders were queried as to what's going on. One, C Justin Britt, offered distinctive optimism about the Seahawks' most maligned unit.

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Tuesday was the first official day of FS Earl Thomas as the Seahawks' Object Of Controversy. As the only one among 90 players not in his assigned seat, the designation is virtually automatic. The three-day mini-camp, in which attendance is mandatory, took off without him. Pete Carroll stayed dry-eyed.

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The Legion of Boom is over, but some of the malady lingers on.

FS Earl Thomas announced on his Twitter account Sunday morning that he will not attend the mandatory, three-day mini-camp starting Tuesday, resolving the biggest of off-season Seahawks speculations.

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Not to put pressure on him -- hey, he wouldn't care anyway -- but CB Shaquill Griffin is the one guy out of the Seahawks drafts from 2014-17 who has the talent, poise and savvy to be as valuable as the draftees-turned-stars from 2010 to 2013 who carried Seattle to consecutive Super Bowls.

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Much in the manner of his peers among the heels of pro wrestling, Donald Trump finds an injury in an opponent and ruthlessly pounds away at it until the script calls for a weepy submission from the vanquished. And he'll still toss the loser over the turnbuckle and onto the floor.

That's where the NFL owners find themselves these days.

But the cold concrete nap looks like it might be a real coma.

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Many fans and pundits assumed that since the Seahawks' ground game in 2017 worked with all the effectiveness of square bowling balls, the offensive line would be forced into a circular firing squad. But now that the roster/coaching tumult has mostly passed, it returns nearly intact.

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Apparently having clanked a dunk off the back rim trying to help bring NBA back to Seattle, Russell Wilson is stepping up to bat for Portland to help bring Major League Baseball to the Rose City. Yes, he's keeping his day job too.

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The Seahawks know well the dyspeptic NFL saga of WR Brandon Marshall -- a splendidly talented wide receiver for 12 years, 23rd on the all-time list for receiving yards, who has been a frequent pain in the butt to teammates, coaches and cops.

So before the Seahawks became his sixth team, according to Marshall Wednesday after practice at team headquarters, "They did their due diligence, to say the least. They broke down everything since I've been in the league. We had some great, transparent, challenging conversations. I (was given) some tough questions.

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Here's our civics quiz question for the day: Is a protest demonstration a protest demonstration if it takes place behind closed doors?

If you said yes, you're probably an NFL owner or a patron of the status quo.  If you said no, you're probably an African American NFL player who resents the hell out of being told to stifle yourself.

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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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