"If Seahawks coach Pete Carroll's ideal scenario had played out on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, starting quarterback Tarvaris Jackson would have been wearing a baseball cap and jacket on the sidelines.

The problem was that Carroll's plan was contingent on Charlie Whitehurst being effective enough to allow the Seahawks offense to score some points.

When that didn't happen on the team's first three series, Carroll subbed in Jackson, who has spent the last three weeks recovering from a high-grade strain of his pectoral suffered in a Week 5 win over the New York Giants."