The lowlights were obvious: A knee injury that cost him five games, and a blowout playoff loss in Atlanta, in which he lost control of his temper -- again -- that ended the season bitterly. So what was the the highlight of DE Michael Bennett's Seahawks season?

The team meeting when the Seahawks spent hours talking about how to reconcile private anger over racial injustice with a public need to play football well and undistracted. 

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Seahawks CBRichard Sherman Wednesday characterized the possibility of the NFL stripping the team of a high draft pick over its failure to disclose his MCL injury as "foolishness" and "harsh." Sherman made his remarks to ESPN following an NFC practice session in Orlando for Sunday's Pro Bowl.

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It wouldn't be quite accurate to label Dan Quinn as Pete Carroll Jr., but there's a whole lot about his NFC Champion Atlanta Falcons that is reminiscent of the Seahawks' 2013 team that won a Super Bowl when Quinn was defensive coordinator.

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The Seahawks added a cornerback and defensive assistant coach Friday in two small moves to begin to repair a defense that that gave up at least 34 points in three of the final six games of the regular season.

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The Seahawks could lose a second-round pick in the 2017 NFL draft for failure to disclose CB Richard Sherman's knee injury on the league's weekly injury report, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen. That would be an elevation from the fifth-round pick Seattle was docked last September as a result of a repeat violation during organized team activities.

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The Seahawks will reportedly sign veteran CB Perrish Cox for the 2017 season to bolster a secondary that has a variety of injury issues. When Cox signs, he will serve as insurance as a potential fill-in for DeShawn Shead, who tore an ACL in the divisional playoff round against Atlanta and will require months of recovery time following surgery.

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Dragging player-health information out of football coaches is one of the more tedious aspects of covering the industry. The coaches want to share nothing, the players are forbidden to speak and the journalists see it as ho-hum duty, mostly for the sake of fantasy players and casino bookies.

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TE Jimmy Graham and OLB K.J. Wright of the Seahawks were added to the NFC Pro Bowl roster Tuesday as injury replacements. Graham makes his fourth Pro Bowl appearance (and first with Seattle since his 2015 trade from New Orleans), while Wright makes his debut. The Pro Bowl is Jan. 29 in Orlando.

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A discombobulated, bewildering Seahawks season grew a little more opaque Monday when coach Pete Carroll said CB Richard Sherman played much of the second half of the season with a knee injury, but seemed surprised that word never became public.

Nor did he know that DE Michael Bennett engaged in an extended, profanity-filled locker-room rant Saturday in the Georgia Dome over a reporter's question, inspiring Sherman, of all people, to cross the room to calm down Bennett.

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The Seattle Seahawks locker room at Virginia Mason Athletic Center was quiet Sunday morning. The sounds of packing tape unspooling and cardboard boxes being folded up echoed off the walls while players shook hands and hugged, preparing for the off-season after a 36-20 playoff loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Several players took the time to ponder: What's next?

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ATLANTA -- The Seahawks were sufficiently vulnerable this season to have needed the No. 2 seed's bye for the extra prep time coach Pete Carroll has exploited so well for postseason success. It's what he taught Dan Quinn, the Falcons coach and Carroll's defensive coordinator in the Super Bowl triumph over the Broncos, which was so decisive in part because of the extra week of practice.

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ATLANTA -- So many cigars exploded in the faces of the Seahawks Saturday that it was difficult to see through the figurative smoke in the Georgia Dome locker room.

We could see DE Michael Bennett cursing out a reporter. CB Deshawn Shead was picking his way carefully on his new crutches after a knee injury took him out in the third quarter. And there was big RG Germain Ifedi hobbling on a left ankle injured in first quarter, which may have been as significant a development as anything.

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Takeaway

A diabolical sequence of events in the second quarter, starting with a special teams holding penalty, sent Atlanta on its way to a decisive 36-20 victory over the Seahawks Saturday in an NFC divisional playoff game at the Georgia Dome (box). In addition to a litany of unforced errors, Seattle couldn't contain Falcons QB Matt Ryan, likely the NFL's Most Valuable Player.

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ATLANTA -- Dog years. That's the metric for how to measure maturity in NFL teams. At least, that's the scientific theory that I'm sticking with until someone repeals and replaces it.

By that measure, a ratio of seven canine years to one for humans, the Seahawks' offensive line, heading into its 18th game Saturday at the Georgia Dome against the Falcons, is approaching its 2½-year anniversary. Sorta.

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With DT Tony McDaniel cleared via the concussion protocol, rookie RB C.J. Prosise is the only uncertainty regarding health as the Seahawks (11-5-1) leave Friday for the NFC divisional round playoff match in Atlanta Saturday (1:35 p.m., FOX) against the 11-5 Falcons.

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Opinions are many regarding what constitutes an excruciating defeat: An upset blowout. A last-second buzzer-beater. A persistent pursuit that never quite gets there.

However it is described, it will be much like the old definition of pornography: You know it when you see it.

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Listening to Seahawks FB Marcel Reece talk about his Saturday at the Clink, the experience was akin to that of a six-year-old receiving a pony for Christmas. The joy and gratitude set off tsunami warning signals.

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Rookie RB C.J. Prosise, out since breaking a shoulder blade Nov. 20 against the Eagles, is returning to practice this week, according to coach Pete Pete Carroll on his weekly radio show Monday on 710 ESPN.

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One of the more intriguing nuggets to emerge from Seattle’s 26-6 wild-card victory over the Detroit Lions Saturday night came courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau, which noted that RB Thomas Rawls and WR Doug Baldwin became the third pair of teammates to have at least 150 yards rushing and 10 or more receptions in a postseason game.

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Revivifying the running game may have excited Seahawks fans Saturday, but it wasn't especially impressive to Las Vegas bookmakers, who have made Atlanta a four-point favorite Saturday, when the 11-5 Falcons host the 11-5-1 Seahawks in the Georgia Dome in a divisional-round playoff game.

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