THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Sleeping on these Seahawks, we'll soon see the results

Tuesday was supposed to be a day of explosive news.

Instead …

Silence.

Or pretty close to it, as the Mariners struggled to find a trading partner before the deadline and accomplished almost nada.

But at least they proved that the phones work (hola, Eduard Bazardo!).

Yep, and the Pac-12 did actually offer up a media rights plan to its conference CEO group — but despite the intriguing promise of using a streaming service as the basis of the agreement, there were too many questions to wrap things up.

Either way.

Everyone went home to look at numbers, and wonder what linear TV brand might partner with Apple.

Meanwhile, maybe it’s the heat, but …

It seems we’ve all forgotten that the Seahawks are sweating away in camp, with the beginning of preseason creeping closer and closer.

The outside world doesn’t think much of this team, no matter how excited Pete Carroll seems to be.

Sports Illustrated did an in-depth story on the looming NFL season, and decided that 13 teams have a chance to win the Super Bowl.

The list starts with the obvious suspects (Eagles, Chiefs, 49ers, Bills, Bengals) and rolls along to tab the Rams at No. 13.

SEAHAWKS?

Nowhere.

That’s a slight to everyone at the training camp in Renton, but it’s not a shock.

Despite the fact that they were 9-8 a year ago and made the playoffs, ignoring the Hawks is definitely a theme heading into the ’23 season.

The boys in Vegas almost uniformly have Seattle listed at 30-1 to win the Super Bowl — odds that would make the Seahawks the 14th overall choice.

Honestly, a little disrespect might be fair.

A little.

There are some legitimate question marks hovering like clouds over this team —especially when it comes to the health of several key players.

Former All-Pro safety Jamal Adams and linebacker Jordyn Brooks, who led the NFL in tackles two years ago, are both rehabbing from surgeries.

The Seahawks HOPE to see them back for most of the regular season, with more optimism about Adams’ progress because he was injured in the first game last season.

Brooks’ knee surgery came much later.

Tariq Woolen, who was a sensation as a Pro Bowl rookie corner a year ago, also is working back from a minor surgery.

These are pretty important medical issues, and so is the matter of surgery rehab for Bryan Mone, the Hawks’ only veteran nose tackle — such an important spot in Seattle’s basic 3-4 defense that tackle Jarran Reed has been moved to the middle where he’s competing with draft choice Cam Young.

Adams, Brooks, Woolen and Mone are all on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list at the moment — and even if all of them eventually make it back, they won’t have had any training camp work.

Still, everyone in that group except Woolen (who will be ready for the preseason games) missed most of last year, and the Seahawks made the playoffs anyhow.

With any kind of good luck in the medical tent, the Seahawks have reason to expect a lot of themselves this year.

IS THIS a group with the talent to go deep in the playoffs?

To reach the NFC championship game, perhaps?

Well, ESPN produced a list of the league’s top 10 players at each position — and the only Seahawk who showed up anywhere was DK Metcalf, ranked eighth among wide receivers.

Everyone else?

Nada.

Those are kind of rankings that pros try very hard to ignore — or at least, most pros.

Seattle safety Quandre Diggs has gone in the other direction, and considers the omission of so many Seahawks (and himself) a serious slight.

Diggs was steamed by the lists, and didn’t bother hiding it.

He’s made the Pro Bowl each of the past three years, and now has a streak of six

seasons with at least three interceptions.

“It sucks to not be top 10 on those lists because you work your tail off to be recognized as that,” Diggs said on Seattle 710 radio. “So, for me, I kind of took that as disrespect. But at the end of the day, it is what it is.”

Even more important in the big picture, Diggs thinks quite a few of his teammates were slighted, too — and that’s something they can remedy on the scoreboard.

“I mean, that’s cool, you know what I mean?” Diggs said. “At the end of the day, we’re a playoff team and we just added more talent this offseason.

“Maybe it’s not just about one person or two people.

“It’s about a whole team and that’s the way we just gonna look at it.”

You get the feeling that there’s another theme going on with this disrespect thing —that it’s buzzing among the Seahawks themselves.

Let’s just say …

They’re anxious to prove a point.

Email: scameron@cdapress.com

Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press four times each week, normally Tuesday through Friday unless, you know, stuff happens.

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