I designed this graphic a week ago for the Seahawks because I knew this was going to happen.
  • I designed this graphic a week ago for the Seahawks because I knew this was going to happen.

What’s more insufferable than, “I told you so”? Nothing. Try to think of something more insufferable. You failed. I told you so.

Just to recap, I told you last week that the Seahawks were going to get the Insufferable Journey to Rewinnining the Super Bowl back on track with a double-digit win over the Cardinals, and that’s just what happened with their 19-3 win at CenturyLink Field. Guys. I told you so.

This also means that, for the time being, The Stranger is officially the number one football prognosticating publication in the Pacific Northwest. Our record now stands at 2-0 (including last year’s Super Bowl win) in picking football games. How insufferable is that?

Let’s have some fun breaking down the Seahawks' best win of the season since week one:

• The Seahawks defense was really good on Sunday, but they got bailed out by some poor throws from Arizona quarterback Drew Stanton and dropped balls by every receiver on the Cardinals not named John Brown (including the confusingly similarly named Jaron Brown). Some might say this cheapens the Seahawks' victory. Allow me to suggest that it does not.

Teams can’t be good at everything, and while the Cardinals are good at many things, targeting secondary receivers is not one of those things. That Arizona missed a lot of opportunities suggests that Pete Carroll’s coaching staff gave them those opportunities knowing they were the most likely to be missed. This worked like a dream. Arizona’s defensive coaching may be flashy (and excellent), but never forget how good Pete Carroll is at his job.

Also, Drew Stanton is not good at his job.

• The Seahawks are down tight end Zach Miller for the year, so they’ve just gone and turned a bunch of retreads into a hell of a tight-end corps. Luke “Dubstep” Willson is one more drop-free week away from earning himself the nickname “tolerable EDM.” Tony Moeaki is an incredibly useful piece for a guy picked up off the scrap heap mid-season. And then there’s the increasingly heroic Cooper Helfet. Undrafted out of Duke, and now catching TDs and suplexing guys on special teams? What an awesome development.

• Russell Wilson looks different. What is it? What could it be? Let’s take a look at him at this Seahawks press conference:

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  • Russell, something's changed.

ENHANCE!

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Hmmmm.

ENHANCE!!

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There it is.

I like to think Russ got up one morning, looked in the mirror, and said to himself, “Hey Russ, lots of guys don’t shave every day. Why not me?”

• I was at CenturyLink Field for this game, and rumors of the demise of the 12th Man have been greatly exaggerated. Also, there were wiener dog races at halftime. I missed them because the bathroom line was long, but I was told that they ended in a tie.

• As good as the Seahawks were, they still lack a number-one receiver. They have replaced Golden Tate and Percy Harvin with rookies Kevin Norwood and Paul Richardson, which is insufficient for replacing Golden Tate and Percy Harvin. Both rookies were shut down on Sunday, performances that stand out (in a bad way) as rookie receiver Odell Beckham Jr. got busy later in the evening doing the coolest thing anyone has ever done. Watch this a hundred times:

This is lunacy. This is pure sports. Football is a horror show in so many ways, but holy crap, over 25 million people all watched this happen at the same time. Football gave us this. I can’t get over it.

This is how the play went down in real time:

It’s just so unbelievable. Live, it’s impossible to see the second foot come down. I started screaming at the TV thinking that it wasn’t going to count as a catch. And then it did.

This is the same Odell Beckham Jr. that beat Richard Sherman on a double move two weeks ago en route to a 100+ yard outing. Rookie receivers don’t do that. Rookie receivers don’t do this. Veteran receivers don’t do this. Football playing robots don’t do this. Time-traveling wizards don’t do this.

The Seahawks need an Odell Beckham Jr. Not necessarily to win it all this year, though a receiver of his caliber would surely help. They need a receiver like this for the insufferableness. Can you imagine if a team like the Seahawks and a coach like Pete Carroll got to swoon over a player like Beckham Jr.? Can you imagine the insufferable 12s? The Facebook posts? The tweets? Oh, it would be so glorious.

• Four days from now, the Seahawks play San Francisco in Santa Clara on Thanksgiving. No score predictions this week; the Niners are a stouter threat at home than the Cardinals were playing on the road. That said, I can make one guarantee: This is one of the two weeks a year when the Seahawks will not be the most insufferable team on the field. How can I be sure? Because:

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Told you so.