The screaming will die down next year, or maybe the year after that, regarding the final minute of the final game of the NFL's regular season in its 100th year. When it does, keep in mind that a few inches twice denied, a foul uncalled and a decision messed up, forced upon the Seahawks a 2,400-mile road trip instead of a home playoff game and helped create this fact:

From a first-and-10 at the San Francisco 49ers' 12-yard line in the final minute, the Seahawks, one of the best teams in NFL history regarding fourth-quarter comebacks, had the ball for eight plays. They gained 11.9 yards. They lost the game. At home.

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Here's the transcript of a phone interview Sunday night between pool reporter Tim Booth of the Associated Press and Al Riveron, senior vice president of officiating, who leads the video review team in New York, regarding the final two Seahawks offensive plays in the 49ers' 26-21 win at the Clink.

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As if there wasn't enough about the Seahawks-49ers nationally televised game Sunday night to draw attention, apparently it's anti-hero week too.

After the Seahawks re-hired Marshawn Lynch Monday, former Seahawks bad boy LB Brian Bosworth will raise the 12 flag before the game, the club announced Friday. For those too young to remember, Bosworth posed himself as a ruthless rebel in the fashion of Lynch, with two notable differences: It was a pure con job, and he couldn't walk his talk.

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Even RB Robert Turbin, a backup who made four starts in 81 career NFL games over eight seasons, had to chuckle over the fuss being made about him. Oh, and the other old newbie too.

"Marshawn and I laughed about it earlier today," he said. "It’s like, 'Man, we picked a heck of a week to come back, didn’t we?'

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This week's pop-up carnival that is the Marshawn Lynch re-hire certainly is entertaining. I mean, his first practice was on 12/24, fercripesakes.

Seeing him hug it out at VMAC with Dave Pearson, the Seahawks' longtime PR chieftain, after years of annoying each other, was a splendid attempt at sincerity. No one was buying it, but hey, it's Christmas and the 12-3 49ers show up Sunday. All hands on deck.

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Comebacks in sports have a dubious record. But if Tiger Woods can win the Masters at 43 after all that he's been through, Marshawn Lynch at 33 should be able to get a yard or two.

Even at second and goal at the one-yard line.

If you thought Sunday night's game between the 11-4 Seahawks and 12-3 49ers on national TV already was going to be amped, the Northwest can be taken off Grand Coulee Dam's electrical grid for three hours and the extension cord can be plugged into the Clink.

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For the entire season, the Seahawks were on a tightrope, swaying in the breeze, an almost unprecedented 10-1 in games decided by a single possession. They nearly made it across. Sunday, they fell.

Because there's a minimum of two games left, it can't be said they have hit the canyon floor. But it has certainly grown cold and breezy, and the ground is coming up fast.

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Among the Seahawks, 'tis the season to be busted.

This time, DT Al Woods was suspended Friday for four games for violating the NFL's policy on using performance-enhancing drugs. The ruling follows by five days the indefinite suspension of WR Josh Gordon for PEDs as well as substances of abuse.

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The arrival Sunday at the Clink of the Arizona Cardinals, the only NFC West team out of contention for a playoff spot, serves as a reminder of how fortunate Seahawks fans should feel about eight post-season appearances in the 10 years directed by coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider.

Kliff Kingsbury is the the Cardinals' fourth head coach in the same period, in which the franchise has appeared in three playoff games, winning once.

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The grip on Josh Gordon goes way back.

"Initially it started for me, (because of) a lot of childhood and adolescent trauma-based fear," he said. "I was using in my childhood. That environment brought me into that a lot sooner than a normal—whatever normal is—kid should be brought into that, to be able to make a decision on their own of what to do.

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If the Saints and Seahawks were to win their their final two regular-season games  . . .

Wait. What? You there, the gray-haired gentlemen with his hand up. What is your NFL postseason-speculation question?

"I don't really care," said Pete Carroll. 'I really don't. We have to win a game, then we'll see where we are. That's the only thing that matters to me."

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During practice last week, Russell Wilson offered up a point of emphasis to coach Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer.

"I told the coaches, the ball spins good for me in North Carolina," he said, referring not only to his three starring years at North Carolina State, but to the Seahawks' run of four wins in five games in Charlotte against the Panthers.

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After being shredded by the Rams for 455 yards, the Seahawks defense will be without two starters, and possibly a third, for the game in Charlotte Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. DE  Jadeveon Clowney  and LB Mychal Kendricks are out, and CB Shaquill Griffin is questionable with a tender hamstring.

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It would be errant to say that Russell Wilson will have his get-well game Sunday at Carolina (10 a.m., FOX), because that assumes Wilson is sick (he isn't) and the bedraggled Panthers will lose (probably, but all us have been around the NFL long enough to be dope-slapped by assumptions).

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After several questions about the perplexing failures in Sunday's 28-12 loss to the Rams, coach Pete Carroll offered a hint to media members at Wednesday's presser on the direction he'd like rest of the conversation to take:

" . . . moving on," he said.

To Carolina. To a road game Sunday morning against a Panthers team that fired its long-time coach last week, is without injured star QB Cam Newton is 5-8 this season and 1-6 in the regular seasons against the Seahawks during Carroll's tenure.

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Since the outcome Sunday was the Rams' fourth win in the past five games against the Seahawks, and eighth in the past 12 meetings, there probably shouldn't be much shock in Seattle's 28-12 loss at the Coliseum. But 10 wins in the season's first 12 games created an expectation that somehow things would have gone better.

In fact, the Rams own the Seahawks.

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For a good team, it was hard to imagine playing worse. Under-energized. Over-matched. Out-coached. Borderline helpless. They embarrassed themselves in a big national game.

But enough about the Los Angeles Rams. How about those Seahawks Sunday night on national TV at the Coliseum?

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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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