THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Seahawks making these miracles look routine

They keep walking along the edge of that cliff.

On Sunday night, though, the Seahawks got rudely pushed into the abyss by Minnesota.

Except…

What in the world?

Was this a cartoon, or an episode of some series from another galaxy?

Somehow, the Hawks clung to that tiny little weed in the side of the rock face, and stayed barely alive until Russell Wilson and DK Metcalf blew up the whole damn mountain — presenting our heroes with as weird a 27-26 victory as you might ever see.

The Vikings may need group psychological counseling after this night in the rain at Century Link Field.

Do some simple math here…

The Seahawks accomplished nothing in the first half, after which they trailed 13-0 — and it could have been worse.

Seattle managed just 3 (yep, one, two, three) yards passing in the opening half, in part because Wilson was sacked four times for 27 yards.

Minnesota ran over and through the Seahawks as though they’d accidentally found a high school team wandering around on the field.

AH, BUT then…

When Vikes star runner Dalvin Cook suffered what appeared to be a groin injury early in the second half, the Seahawks suddenly burst to life and — again, count along here — scored three touchdowns in 1:53.

The second was TD pass to Metcalf that offered an eerie glimpse of the finish to come.

It followed a fumble by Vikes QB Kirk Cousins as the wet ball slipped out of his hands, and put Seattle up 14-13 with 8:19 left in the third quarter.

Immediately after that, K.J. Wright made a one-handed interception, Chris Carson barged 29 yards to score and it was 21-13.

Back to business, eh?

No.

In fact…

No, no, no.

Minnesota got back to its punishing ground game, now using Boise State alum Alexander Mattison instead of the injured Cook, with Cousins mixing in any necessary passes to a generally wide-open Adam Thielen.

Go check the game play-by-play if you don’t believe me, but the Vikes had five drives of 10 plays or more, something they had not accomplished since 2004.

One of those Death Marches ended with a TD throw to Thielen with 3:39 left in the third quarter, and finally, the Vikings regained the lead midway through the fourth — again on a throw to the apparently invisible Thielen.

In a flash, that two minutes of life that the Seahawks had shown early in the half seemed utterly extinguished.

Wilson seemed to clinch it (the wrong way), when he threw a pick to Anthony Harris late in the fourth quarter.

NOW WE move on to true Seahawks legend stuff.

Or rather, miracle stuff.

The Vikes drove, bullying their way again, to a fourth and one at Seattle 6 at the two-minute warning.

A field goal would have given the Vikes an 8-point lead, but Coach Mike Zimmer went for the dagger.

The Seahawks hadn’t stopped a running play all night, but somehow Cody Barton and Bobby Wagner slammed Mattison down short of the sticks.

LIFE!!

Of course, it’s easy to say now that you don’t want to give Danger Russ the ball with almost two minutes remaining, but trust me…

It never looked like a cinch.

For one thing, it took a 39-yard heave to Metcalf on fourth and 10 just to keep the game alive.

And then, after Russ found Metcalf with a shot to the Minnesota 6, three plays netted zilch.

SO, IN a flash, with rain pouring down, it got to fourth down and Wilson finally seemed out of answers.

But Metcalf went shooting across the formation, almost demanding the ball, and Russ put it out in front of him.

It was a wet bullet, not one of those things you catch in your chest.

Metcalf laid out, snagged the thing in his vice-grip hands and tumbled to the ground with 15 ticks remaining.

No worries, then…

The Seahawks are 5-0, but we can’t exactly say they’ve rolled along to it.

They are, however, getting further and further out over the canyon and away from safety.

Pete Carroll says he loves these games.

I’m glad HE does.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com

Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. “Moments, Memories and Madness,” his reminiscences from several decades as a sports journalist, runs each Sunday.

Steve also writes Zags Tracker, a commentary on Gonzaga basketball, once per month during the offseason.