THE FRONT ROW WITH STEVE CAMERON: Just forget Packer game

So you’re leaving your No. 12 sweatshirts and Russell Wilson jerseys in the closet today.

The Seahawks stunk out Lambeau Field like three-year old cheese in a 38-10 thumping at the hands of Green Bay on Sunday, so...

What?

You’ve given up?

Gone into hiding?

I’m sorry, but that’s totally ridiculous.

In the big picture, this uncharacteristic blowout – and seriously, the Seahawks are ALWAYS competitive – was as meaningless as that 40-7 romp over Carolina a week earlier.

You can put this one down to Seattle’s first game without injured safety Earl Thomas, or blame the footing at Lambeau -- as a few of the Seahawks did despite Pete Carroll not buying it -- or more honestly, follow Russell Wilson’s lead and just write it off as a bad day at the office.

The Packers, who were absolutely riddled with injuries and have struggled most of the year, seem to have figured out Wilson where most other teams cannot.

They picked off a career-high five of his passes in this game, and grabbed four in the NFC Championship game in January of 2015.

But Russell’s assessment of things was spot-on correct.

“We just have to keep swinging,” he said.

YOU CAN take two lessons from this game, if you want to quit wailing and look at a broader perspective.

The first is that even good teams – and that definitely includes the Seahawks – often struggle in their first game without a star player. Everyone else is still learning how to fill the gaps and make adjustments.

That confusion in the secondary without Thomas might have been overcome on some afternoons, but the opponent happened to be a motivated, playoff-hungry Green Bay team with Aaron Rodgers at the wheel and a lot to prove.

It was a bad scheduling break for Seattle, but hey...

That happens.

The Hawks turn right around to play the Rams on Thursday night, and things almost certainly will be massively different.

Look, walking into Lambeau Field for your first game without an all-world safety and finding Rodgers and the Packers playing for their lives...

It was hardly going to be a terrific matchup – and that 66-yard touchdown on Green Bay’s third play from scrimmage was merely the first course of a truly awful helping of humble pie.

FRANKLY, I wouldn’t worry about Sunday’s nightmare outing at all, because of a second key point: There are no dominating teams in the NFC, and only New England (yawn) seems to look slightly like its Super Bowl self in the AFC.

Even the Pats have problems without Rob Gronkowski, and they’ve shown a few holes.

So if you throw out the visit to Green Bay and look at the season as a whole, exactly whom should the Seahawks truly fear?

Dallas was the talk of the league until Sunday, when the fearsome rookie combination of Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott produced exactly one touchdown in a 10-7 loss to the Giants.

The Lions have been rolling, but QB Matthew Stafford now has a dislocated finger on his throwing hand.

Look, if the Seahawks make adjustments for the loss of Thomas (and they have the athletes to do it), they have as solid a shot to make the Super Bowl as any team in the conference.

Don’t be afraid to put on that No. 12 jacket.

Trust me, the Seahawks are alive and soon to be well.

Steve Cameron is a special assignment reporter for The Press who has covered sports at all levels for more than three decades. Reach Steve at [email protected].