THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Maybe it's time for someone else to take the wheel in Seattle

It’s conceivable that, as the Seahawks were losing their 10th game of the season, somebody on the sideline might have said …

“We’d have won this game if we’d just had THEIR quarterback.”

It’s harder, though, to imagine that situation and realize that you would not be hearing a reference to Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford — or any of the bright young things selected in this past draft.

No, the stunning thing is that you would be listening to serious yearning for the Chicago Bears’ third-string quarterback.

I mean, the Bears …

Where promising QB careers go to die.

And yet, on a cold afternoon with Lumen Field already covered with snow, Chicago found itself without starter Justin Fields or backup Andy Dalton.

So, the Bears — who ALREADY had lost 10 times before arriving in Seattle on Sunday — found Nick Foles somewhere in a downstairs storeroom.

FOLES, who once was the Super Bowl MVP when dinosaurs roamed the Earth (but hadn’t started an actual professional game in more than a year), promptly took Russell Wilson out behind the woodshed and reminded him how to lead a fourth-quarter, game-winning drive.

Oh, and cap it with a two-point conversion that handed the Bears a 25-24 victory that prompted some of the Seahawks’ loyal fans to do some booing and throw a few snowballs at their heroes when it was over.

Just to make the whole thing even uglier, Wilson had a little over a minute and a couple of timeouts in his pocket after Foles found Jimmy Graham (remember him?) for a touchdown and then Damiere Byrd for the 2-point conversion to give the Bears their first lead of the day.

Russ needed just a field goal, but responded with, well …

Nada.

A couple of short throws, a couple of poor ones, and finally, a medium route on which Wilson missed a wide-open receiver by 10 yards.

This is the truth …

My first thought, after Russ hit DK Metcalf for an early 7-0 lead and then struggled to manage accurate or even hopeful passes after that, was that the cold was badly bothering his surgically repaired finger.

After all, we know now that Russ lied about “feeling great, 100 percent” when he came back after missing just three games …

Then promptly celebrated his amazing good health by producing exactly zero points on a hopeless night in Green Bay.

He’s conceded since then that he returned too soon, and that it almost certainly cost Seattle a game or two.

WHEN YOU consider that piece of recent history, it’s entirely believable that Wilson was hurting in the snow and cold Sunday — but insisted his finger couldn’t be better.

I think Seahawks fans are beginning to feel like parents who really want to take their child at his word, but he’s fibbed enough that they can’t help rolling their eyes.

How about when Wilson says, with all the earnestness he can muster, that he wants to spend the rest of his career in Seattle?

Are we still believing that?

For that matter, are we buying that the Seahawks feel the same way — or would prefer to plug in a new quarterback who is less bothersome (and perhaps more effective)?

Let the record show that on this particular Sunday, Wilson carried a 24-14 lead into the fourth quarter.

And for once, he had a running game at his back, with Rashaad Penny rushing for 135 yards on 17 carries and a score.

But on the Seahawks’ final two possessions, Wilson mustered a total of 10 yards on nine plays.

Foles, meanwhile, had little or no running game help, was sacked four times — and yet he drove the Bears 58 yards for a field goal to cut the deficit to 24-17, and then won the kewpie doll by leading an 80-yard march in 1:55 to finish things.

Media members who cover the Seahawks have lately been using phrases like, “This team is systemically broken.”

Or: “There have to be better decisions, and everyone pulling in the same direction.”

So far, though, no one seems inclined to mention any names.

I will …

Russell Wilson.

The quarterback may not be the only problem — but he’s ONE of them, and someone else needs to take the wheel.

If you disagree, or think there’s another fix available…

I’m listening.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com

Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. He also writes Zags Tracker, a commentary on Gonzaga basketball which is published weekly during the season.

Steve suggests you take his opinions in the spirit of a Jimmy Buffett song: “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On.”