After what he called "a beautiful night of ball," Pete Carroll zeroed in Monday on the key development that held the NFL's highest-scoring offense to a single touchdown in the 24-10 win Sunday over the Philadelphia Eagles, the Seahawks' most significant win of the season.

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The crypt was almost complete: Lots of marble, noble and somber inscriptions, soft organ music. All it was missing was the Seahawks.

"Everybody was sleeping on us," said LB Bobby Wagner, calmly indignant. "Everybody thought we were going to lose. We expected us to win this game. It's not a surprise to us."

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Takeaway

Russell Wilson's three touchdown passes helped the Seahawks to their biggest win of the season Sunday night, knocking off the NFL's best, the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-10 at CenturyLink Field (box). The Eagles (10-2), who saw their nine-game winning streak snapped, entered the contest as the NFL's No. 1-scoring offense (31.9) and No. 3 scoring defense (17.4), but were outplayed by a more opportunistic team.

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Everyone knows things change fast in the the NFL. But an encounter between SS Earl Thomas and the young cornerback prodigy, Shaquill Griffin, had some figurative scorch marks on it.

Reported Griffin this week: "Earl Thomas came up to me and said it's time for me to step up and be a leader."

What?

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All that needs to be known about the relationship between Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril is who was first to show up to Bennett's hotel room after he had been held, face down and handcuffed, on a Las Vegas curb with a police firearm point at his head.

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Something is familiar about the Philadelphia Eagles, and it has nothing to do with being the team that lost to Seahawks 26-15 a year ago. It has to do with them looking a lot like the 2013 Seahawks. Not necessarily in player-for-player talent, but in efficiency, power, swagger and good fortune.

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After grinding out a 24-13 win over one-win San Francisco, the Seahawks return to CenturyLink Field for a Sunday night game against the Philadelphia Eagles, through 11 weeks the NFC's best team. The Eagles have the top mark in the NFL at 10-1 and are coming off nine consecutive victories, including three 28-point wins, 37-9 over Dallas, 51-23 over Denver, and 31-3 over Chicago.

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The health news that many Seahawks fans were dreading has come to pass -- SS Kam Chancellor's neck injury will keep him out for the rest of the season, with his career future unknown, according to Pete Carroll. The Seahawks coach also said DE Cliff Avril will undergo surgery Tuesday to fix a "disc-related" problem in his neck.

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Given the 49ers record, now 1-10, it is tempting to regard the Seahawks' 24-13 win Sunday as more or less an exhibition game, in which neither good plays nor bad plays are weighty because of the caliber of the opposition. While it is partly true, the larger point is that the Seahawks late in the season are breaking in a more-or-less new secondary and a new offensive line, and neither unit spit up.

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Takeaway

QB Russell Wilson recovered from a grim career first -- an interception on his first pass of a game -- to throw two touchdown passes and run for another as the Seahawks pulled away from the San Francisco 49ers in the second half for a 24-13 victory, avoiding the ignominy of losing to a 1-9 team starting a rookie quarterback (box).

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After missing five games recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, Luke Joeckel appears ready to resume his left guard position that figures to help a little in restoring the ground game when the 6-4 Seahawks play the 1-9 49ers at 1 p.m. Sunday in Santa Clara. But CB Shaquill Griffin will miss the game after a concussion Monday against Atlanta.

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If you're a Seahawks fan contemplating a descent into wails and lamentations over the uncontrollable cruelties of pro football, keep in mind that the collective record of Seattle's opponents through 10 games is 42-58. Yes, the injuries are burdensome, but there is no cosmic conspiracy to derail the Pete Carroll empire.

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While Pete Carroll’s well-intentioned but dubious play calling, especially on the fake field goal attempt before halftime (see Thiel: Valiant Seahawks lose on Carroll's calls), has dominated local sports talk since the Seahawks botched an opportunity to knock off the Atlanta Falcons Monday night at CenturyLink Field, another factor contributed to Seattle’s 34-31 loss.

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Although he's unlikely to be blamed, veteran DE Dwight Freeney, 37, was the first casualty of the 34-31 loss to Atlanta Monday when the Seahawks announced Tuesday afternoon that he had been waived.

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The fake field goal play that failed Monday night in the three-point loss to Atlanta will live long in the video archive of Pete Carroll's legacy. Despite much criticism, the Seahawks coach Tuesday was undaunted and unapologetic, and likely will use it again if circumstances warrant.

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Given the circumstances entering the game, it was entirely reasonable that the Seahawks defense would be vulnerable to a big game from a quality Atlanta Falcons offense. And since the Seahawks offense was only Wilson-dimensional, it too, could be expected to falter.

Special teams were in trouble too, since several key players were advanced to the first team because of injuries. So being down 14-0 halfway through the first quarter was hardly a shock.

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Takeaway

Playing for only the seventh time since 2011 without Legion of Boom members Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor, the Seahawks couldn't contain Atlanta QB Matt Ryan, who directed four scoring drives in the second half to lead the Falcons to a 34-31 win over the injury-compromised Seahawks Monday night at CenturyLink Field (box). Seattle had a good shot at the end, but couldn't quite pull it out.

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At 6-3, the Seahawks sport the second-best record in the NFC West (Rams are 7-3 after a Sunday loss) and if the playoffs began before the weekend, would own the conference’s sixth and final playoff spot. But for the first time since Russell Wilson became the franchise’s starting quarterback in 2012, a Super Bowl run suddenly seems far-fetched, even though the Seahawks have won five of their past six.

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The bad health news keeps rolling in for the Seahawks: Multiple national sources reported Saturday that not only will SS Kam Chancellor miss Monday's game against Atlanta, he will be placed on the injured reserve list with a neck stinger and miss the rest of the season.

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Add another name to the list of Seahawks' walking wounded: Russell Wilson. The Seahawks quarterback disclosed Friday that his jaw was nearly broken in the game at Arizona, forcing him into a liquid diet for a few days until treatment allowed him to get back to chewing solid food.

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