Cliff Avril will have up to eight more weeks to contemplate his playing future as soon as the Seahawks place him on the injured reserve list. But even though his neck injury has caused many to speculate that, at 31, he seems a candidate for retirement, word came Thursday that Avril would like to return this season.

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Roger Goodell said Wednesday in New York that he would like all players to stand for the national anthem. Seahawks DE Michael Bennett said in Renton that he will disappoint the NFL commissioner.

"I plan on sitting down," he said his weekly podium turn at Seahawks HQ. "Like I’ll continue to do what I’ve been doing and the consequences are the consequences."

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One of the great appeals of sports is resolution. Spend a little time (maybe a little money) on an event, and an outcome is provided. It may be disappointing, disagreeable or debatable, but it has a beginning, middle and end, usually in less than four hours, unless it's playoff baseball.

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Luke Joeckel will miss the next four to five weeks recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, meaning backups Mark Glowinski and rookie Ethan Pocic will compete to see who starts at left guard Sunday for the Seahawks (3-2) in New Jersey against the 1-5 Giants.

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Roger Goodell has a robust history of handling political and social issues as if he were trying to catch a butterfly with a catcher's mitt. But rarely has the NFL commissioner gotten the point completely backward. If nothing else, the man is out there on the frontier of foolishness.

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After falling behind 10-0 Sunday to the Rams at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Seahawks knitted together 16 consecutive points to post a 16-10 victory that vaulted Seattle (3-2) into the NFC West lead. Entering the contest, the Rams carried the NFL’s highest scoring average, 35.5 points per game.

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Even though both played to the end of the 16-10 win over the Rams Sunday, DE Michael Bennett and LG Luke Joeckel are most happy to see the bye week. Bennett injured the plantar fascia in his right foot in the game, and Joeckel will have arthroscopic surgery Thursday to help with pain in his repaired right knee.

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Harrowing as were the final moments Sunday in the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Seahawks' annual rock fight with the Rams turned early. When FS Earl Thomas converted an apparent Rams touchdown into a touchback, and when QB Russell Wilson's rundown of an interception return shriveled a sure touchdown into a field goal, the plays gave the Seahawks a chance to spend the rest of the afternoon walking a figurative tightrope over Niagara Falls.

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Takeaway

When, some years from now, Earl Thomas enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot, his career highlight film is likely to include at least one, and perhaps two, plays from Sunday's 16-10 nail-biter over the Rams at the Los Angeles Coliseum that vaulted the Seahawks (3-2) into a share of the NFC West lead.

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The Seahawks promoted DE Branden Jackson, an undrafted free agent from Texas Tech who played with the Raiders in 2016, from their practice squad to the 53-man roster Saturday ahead of Sunday's game in Los Angeles against the NFC-West leading Rams.

LB Justin March-Lillard was waived to make room.

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In addition to the absence of Cliff Avril, the Seahawks defense will also be missing his roster replacement, DE Quinton Jefferson, who broke his hand 20 minutes into his first practice Wednesday and will be out four weeks or so.

"Right off the bat" in a pass-rush drill, coach Pete Carroll said after practice Friday. "Just an unusual thing that happened, and unfortunate in his return.”

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After going through a club-record 18 backs in 2016 in an abjectly futile attempt to replace Marshawn Lynch, the Seahawks sought not to have their running pants pulled around their ankles in 2017.

So they hired free agent Eddie Lacy, re-upped late-comer J.D. McKissic and drafted Chris Carson to supplement holdovers Thomas Rawls and C.J. Prosise.

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Gotta feel for Rees Odhiambo. The Seahawks' left tackle ends one game in a hospital bed, and then, if he's healthy and lucky, gets to spend part of his next Sunday being cracked on by the NFL's best player, one capable of wrecking the Seahawks' season single-handed.

At least after the past Sunday, he had pharmaceutical help.

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Before all focus is trained on the Seahawks-Rams game Sunday at the Los Angeles Coliseum, a final note on the Seahawks-Colts. In Seattle's 46-18 win, the Seahawks scored two rushing touchdowns, two passing TDs and two return TDs. Never in their four decades had the Seahawks tallied with such a combination of scores.

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RB J.D. McKissic made a substantial impression in his 2017 debut Sunday, flashing 30 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter and snagging a 27-yard TD pass from QB Russell Wilson late in the fourth. Inactive for Seattle's first three games, McKissic probably would not have been on the field if third-down specialist C.J. Prosise hadn’t been nursing a hurt.

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A quarter of the way through the regular season, the 2-2 Seahawks are healing their offensive woes while growing the injury list. Seems as if that it is always the way of the first week of October. At his weekly presser Monday, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll went over the lengthy list of casualties after the 46-18 win over Indianapolis:

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No doubt that the poise and cool of QB Russell Wilson has served him and the Seahawks well. But there's times when his teammates want him to drop the script, stop the smile and go belligerent and bellicose. Even if they have to help him do it. As Doug Baldwin put it fancifully:

"I got to punch him in the mouth sometimes."

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Takeaway

Two defensive touchdowns -- a 28-yard interception return by CB Justin Coleman in the second quarter and a 21-yard fumble return by LB Bobby Wagner in the third -- helped the Seahawks turn a clumsy affair into a rout of the Indianapolis Colts, 46-18, Sunday night at CenturyLink Field. Trailing 15-10 at halftime, Seattle roared back to square its record at 2-2 with a 22-point third period full of explosive plays.

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Disputing Michael Bennett's account of his detainment, Las Vegas police said Thursday that, after reviewing more than 800 videos, they treated him "appropriately and professionally" when he ran from an after-hours club as officers searched for an active shooter that they later determined didn't exist.

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Perhaps the latest punishable version of wardrobe malfunction in the NFL came Friday when Seahawks CB Richard Sherman was fined $12,145 for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in Sunday’s game at Tennessee -- removal of his helmet while on the field.

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