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Friday has arrived in at least one portion of the contiguous 48 United States, and it soon will hit Seattle. It’s the artificial deadline, set in February, by Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson for doing a new deal.

So this means that no deal will be done until after the season, right? Maybe not.

Technically, the plug won’t be pulled until the Seahawks start their first camp practice, at 1:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Moreover, there’s a belief in league circles that a deal could be done within the next 48 hours, notwithstanding the deadline. It would mean that the Seahawks will have sweetened their pending offer, once they recognize that, come February, it will be much more expensive to keep Wilson — so expensive that they may end up not keeping him.

It’s possible that Wilson and agent Mark Rodgers will refuse to consider any offers made after the artificial deadline comes and goes. But that can’t stop the Seahawks from continuing to extend offers, and it can’t prevent Wilson from getting one that he likes enough to accept.