The Seahawks are already in midseason form, clearly poised for another Super Bowl run. 

How do we know? Because they're once again making more news off the field than on.

If you thought the offseason drama would end once the football started, we have a magic healing potion to sell you. Oh wait, that's Russell Wilson.

The Seahawks will never be on a training camp documentary -- they'll confine their hard knocks to the field, even if Kam Chancellor is not there -- but who needs a TV show when "Hard Hawks" is playing all across social media?

It's not really anything new for Pete Carroll's crew. And they succeed despite the drama every year anyway.

In 2013, Percy Harvin Watch dominated from the time he was acquired all the way through the Super Bowl. In 2014, Marshawn Lynch's contract situation and Harvin's sudden departure ruled another Super season.

This year, Chancellor apparently is trying to assure another Super Bowl run with his aggravating holdout.

But Wilson, Lynch and Michael Bennett have taken turns deflecting attention away from the missing Pro Bowl safety -- Wilson talking about miracle healing water, Bennett talking about overpaid quarterbacks and underpaid defensive linemen (himself), and Lynch getting fined for not talking at all.

It's just another week for "The Young and the Restless" Seahawks -- one of the NFL's best soap operas. 
Wilson already has taken plenty of grief this year -- over his contract, his relationship with Ciara, his celebrity hobnobbing, his talks with God. Then Rolling Stone gave everyone something else to razz him about with the revelation that Wilson thinks a Gatorade-like beverage called Recovery Water helped him avoid concussion symptoms after he was illegally blasted in the head by Clay Matthews in the NFC title game.

The jokes and mocking memes came flying fast Wednesday. "Nanobubbles" will become the theme of this season. But, hey, if Wilson thinks it helps him, Seahawks fans should have no problem with that. (Pro Football Talk wannabe tattletale Mike Florio won't get his kickback from the FTC either -- in fact, maybe he should drink some Recovery Water to see if he regains his senses.)

The Rolling Stone piece that created that social media firestorm came a day after Bennett went on 710 ESPN and called out all of the medicore quarterbacks who get paid more than great players at other positions.

Some people apparently unfamiliar with Bennett's candid nature called the radio interview "wild and crazy." Sure, Bennett has a little Steve Martin in him, but that was just typical Bennett -- calling it as he sees it, saying what a lot of defenders surely think. He called out Ryan Tannehill and Sam Bradford but also surely was referring to Andy Dalton, Jay Cutler, Colin Kaepernick, et al. And who really is going to argue with him -- especially to his face?

Of course, Bennett's rant was rooted in his own contract dissatisfaction, but he said he reported to camp because "I can’t let my unhappiness trump my professionalism.” He went on to compare the situation to an unhappy wife (him) who stays with her husband (the team) for the sake of the kids (his teammates).

Chancellor clearly does not feel the same way, and his extended holdout already has some fans calling for him to be traded. He has not said a word, but his agent has said he will not report without a better deal and teammates have said he is entrenched.

Doug Baldwin called it "the price of success" for the Seahawks. Richard Sherman, who has several rivals now as the most controversial talker on the team, said: "Both sides are digging their heels in. ... I don’t know when it’s going to get resolved."

In all of that drama, the silent partner, Lynch, largely had been forgotten -- until word came this week that he had been fined $75,000 by the NFL for not speaking to the media after the NFC title game. Apparently he won't have to pay it if he cooperates this season, so prepare for that weekly report by ESPN (the outlet that was most upset by Lynch's lack of loquaciousness).

Most teams would melt under the burning scrutiny the two-time NFC champs get, but the Hawks clearly shrug off the drama -- separating it from what they do on the field. How else could they get to the Super Bowl last year amid the Harvin debacle?

And lest anyone need to be reminded: These are not the Cowboys of the 1990s -- Michael Irvin and the rest of his delinquent teammates.  These are not the Patriots -- the team many non-New England fans think has cheated its way to the top.  And these certainly are not the Seahawks' rivals in San Francisco, who had Aldon Smith, Ray McDonald and Ahmad Brooks on their roster.

The Hawks are just a bunch of great players with unique personalities who draw attention to themselves both on the field and off.

As much as various people are turned off by the Seahawks' talk (or lack thereof in Lynch's case), there simply is nothing they can do about the fact that the Seahawks are the most talented team in the NFL -- and, judging by all of the drama, clearly already in Super Bowl form.

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