The best is yet to come: What we learned from Seahawks Week 7 win over Arizona

We are not yet — we are only becoming.
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The Seahawks officially have too many mouths to feed on offense

It isn't as though the Seahawks lacked offensive firepower heading into the season. Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf, Kenneth Walker, Will Dissly, and Noah Fant are a perfectly cromulent core of skill position players — good enough to be a top ten offense in football.

Now throw in Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Jake Bobo. We've seen flashes of them at various points this season thus far, but for the first time all season, we saw both of them affect the game in tangible ways on offense. Njigba got free in the slot for his first NFL touchdown, and was generally a nuisance to the Cardinals' secondary all day, while Bobo made the best catch I've seen a Seahawk make since Tyler Lockett went full Smooth Criminal in the corner of the end zone against the Rams a few years ago.

How exactly are defenses supposed to counter this? The Seahawks officially have a credible receiving threat at all four receiver positions on the field at all times, regardless of what personnel they line up in. There's no more cheating to the space Lockett is running to — JSN is now occupying the space left underneath Lockett's route. There's no safety cheating over to cover Metcalf on the deep fade with Bobo inside of him running a skinny post.

The offensive line still has to get healthy for this offense to truly step into that elite category, but when that time comes, the Seahawks will be outfitted with more weapons than John Wick.