"Quarterbacks supposedly get too much credit when a team is winning.

Whoever said that is advised to look at this season's Seahawks.

Tarvaris Jackson has taken a back seat to running back Marshawn Lynch's junk-food preference, and the Seahawks' cornerbacks are getting more attention than their quarterback.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Jackson has been efficient, he has been effective, and he has managed this team to four wins in five games — a polite way of saying that he isn't mucking anything up with turnovers.

But at some point, Seattle is going to need its quarterback to stare down an opposing defense. Some point like Sunday in Chicago, facing a Bears team that specializes in turnovers in a game with playoff implications.

"We know they're going to come out firing," Jackson said. "Come out fast. You want to make sure you try to match their intensity and make them try to match our intensity."

With just three games left in Jackson's first season as a Seahawk, Seattle is still trying to figure out just what to make of him. He's had the two biggest single-game passing totals of his career this season, but he's also passed for more than 200 yards only once in the past four games. He came to town with a 10-10 record as a starting quarterback, and the Seahawks have gone 6-6 in his starts this season. But he has also courageously played through a strained pectoral muscle so severe that he couldn't practice on back-to-back days for more than a month."