Warning: Blasphemy ahead.
What I’m about to propose goes against every football instinct, and every fan’s most fervent wish.
But I’m thinking Russell Wilson should sit Sunday.
Wilson has proven his toughness beyond anyone’s questioning. And he has shown his improvisational genius, both in his dazzling ability to create plays out of seeming disaster, and, in a new wrinkle Sunday, sneaking back onto the field under his coach’s nose.
But the Seahawks need Wilson at his best, for the long haul. And that may well mean not giving him a chance to flaunt his recuperative powers or his imperviousness to pain — or, for that matter, his bench elusiveness — Sunday against the New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.