This is not the way a team gets to the Super Bowl. But it's the only way for these Seahawks to get to the Super Bowl, apparently — with Russell Wilson running for his life, and still managing to give his team life it otherwise would not have.

By all rights, the Seahawks should be 0-2, the way what passes for an offense is playing so far. Instead, they’re 1-1, barely avoiding an ugly loss to an offensively impotent 49ers team at home Sunday.

Speaking of barely avoiding … that's how Wilson created the game-winning touchdown out of nothing, avoiding four 49ers just long enough to fling it to Paul Richardson in the end zone with 7:06 left at CenturyLink Field, the final points in a 12-9 win.

That’s how the Seahawks apparently are going to score points this season, with more stress and under more duress than usual.

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To avoid that weekly fate, they're going to have to get turnovers and turn them into points, get something out of their special teams and manufacture points there, cross their fingers that Blair Walsh gets himself straightened out … and hope Russell Wilson can be Russell Wilson every week.

He's destined to always be judged by some by some standard he’ll never reach, and never by the lack of support on offense that, at this point, is bordering on outright neglect. Seattle's offensive line was already a sieve before it lost George Fant at left tackle. It’s been even more of a sieve in the first two games. The Seahawks are mixing and matching at running back again, and they decided they didn't need Jermaine Kearse as a target for Wilson anymore.

The improv act by Wilson that saved the game and, maybe, their season, was the Seahawks’ first touchdown of the year. The Seahawks shouldn't be part of a discussion with the likes of the Jaguars, Bills, Bengals, Colts and, yes, 49ers, teams that have have either been barred from the end zone or have only slipped in when games are out of hand.

Except, that’s where the Seahawks are.

When they lost to the Packers 17-9 in Lambeau Field in Week 1, they did as well as they could against Aaron Rodgers, very likely lost a defensive touchdown on a blown call and pulled off a brilliant drive at the end of the first half — again highlighted by Wilson’s making something out of nothing.

They couldn't even manage that much against the 49ers. Wilson won't want to look at the stats. Again, it’s not now nor ever has been the Seahawks’ goal to throw 39 times, but they did Sunday.

But the last time he threw it, Wilson made it count.

There's no reason to hold your breath for it to click into place. By design or not, Wilson’s legs are going to get the Seahawks out of trouble. It will be against much better teams than the 49ers. It will be while everyone wonders if this is the week the rearranged line will jell, and backs like Chris Carson figure out a way before the game is decided.

Carson was solid, finishing with 93 yards. That 41 of those yards were after Wilson’s touchdown pass, running out the clock after the 49ers were stopped one more time, was critical. But it distorts how, for a while, Wilson was also the Seahawks' most dangerous rusher.

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Wilson always shrugs these things off. He’ll do it again this year, the way he did last year when he had to do much of the same, except while hurt nearly all season. He’s going to take another beating this season, and he'll put a lot of wear and tear on everything.

Maybe the rest of the Seahawks' offense will catch up, and it'll live up to the expectations.

Until it does, though, it's Wilson being Wilson, or else.