Russell Wilson Peaking at Right Time for Highly Dangerous Seahawks

I don't know where Russell Wilson ranks among the game's top quarterbacks.

I don't know how his arm strength ranks. Or his accuracy. Or his pocket awareness. Or any of the other artificial metrics cited by the stat geeks and metric nerds who say they study film 27 hours a day. I don't know. I don't care.

This is what I do know: Wilson has almost no downfield threat. His tight ends don't scare anyone. His line is decent. His best weapon is a running back in a passing league.

Yet all I see from Wilson is a concert of excellence and double standards. Wilson's accurate throws, his critics will say, are because of route-running by the receiver. Andrew Luck's are because of his radar-lock brain that is radar-locked on the receiver which allows his radar-locking mechanism to radar-lock, 'cause radar-lock gonna radar-lock.

No, you aren't seeing 400-yard passing games from Wilson, but what you are seeing is a rise in his play. A resurgence. Revenge of the Russell. He's back to Super Bowl form, and I would say he's even better now than he was last year and this fact, as much as his defense, makes the Seattle Seahawks difficult to beat.

What the Seahawks' 24-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday showed was, once again, if you don't fear the Seahawks, you need to check yourself before they do it for you.

What's even more stunning is how the competitors around the Seahawks are disintegrating as the Seahawks rise. The San Francisco 49ers are a mess. The Arizona Cardinals, without Carson Palmer, might be done. The Seahawks just beat Philadelphia. The Detroit Lions still can't be trusted. Do you believe in the Dallas Cowboys? Hell no. Not yet.

So in the NFC, the Green Bay Packers are a clear No. 1, and then Seattle. That's how it has to be.

The 'Hawks have the clearest road to a division title. The Cardinals finish the season at St. Louis (win), home against Seattle (loss) and then at San Francisco (toss-up). The 49ers are at Seattle (loss), home against San Diego (loss) and then home against Arizona (toss-up).

Arizona had a good win on Sunday, but they aren't the same team. They just lost Andre Ellington for the year with a hernia.

Then there's San Francisco. If Colin Kaepernick regresses any further, he'll be wearing a single-bar facemask. The players on the 49ers have totally checked out. They know Jim Harbaugh is gone. They're already booking vacation flights. The 49ers are broken men. They were just manhandled by the Oakland Raiders. No way they beat Seattle.

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