Every morning, we'll round up local and national Seattle Seahawks-related links.

On The MMQB, Richard Sherman offers suggestions for how the NFL can improve officiating:

"A certain amount of human error is acceptable. The first thing the league needs to do to improve officiating is narrow the margin for error by simplifying the rulebook, especially on the defensive side of the ball. There's a great deal of redundancy in our rules that officials end up debating on the field, and these conferences disrupt the flow of the game. What constitutes illegal contact, and how is it different from pass interference and defensive holding, and how egregious does any of it have to be to constitute unsportsmanlike conduct?"

Davis Hsu of Field Gulls takes a look at the Seahawks' third-down efficiency:

For the season I have the Seahawks at 45.8% on 3rd down, which is quite impressive. The official stats have the Seahawks closer to 44%, (4th best in the NFL) but the official stats ding the Seahawks for five kneel-downs and do not give them credit for two conversions via penalty. Since the bye week, the Seahawks are a whopping 57.6% on 3rd down and that includes an ugly 1 of 8 performance against the Cardinals.

For the season, the Seahawks have done a good job of keeping 60% (100 of 165 attempts) of their 3rd downs at 6 yards or fewer to go. Additionally, only 7% of the Seahawks 3rd downs are at distances of greater than 15 yards (12 of 165).

Larry Stone of The Seattle Times compares the Seahawks' success with the Cleveland Browns' failure:

Pettine followed the one-and-done Rob Chudzinski, who followed the two-and-done Pat Shurmur and Eric Mangini. Heck, this is an organization that didn't even have the sense to hang on to to Bill Belichick, who was fired by former Browns owner Art Modell (I'll pause for the reflexive booing by Cleveland fans) one week after the franchise's move to Baltimore was announced in 1996. I've lost track of Belichick since then, but heard rumors he landed on his feet.

The Seahawks, meanwhile, thrived in a 10-year span under Mike Holmgren (whose magic would not rub off on the Browns during his three-year stint as team president). Matt Hasselbeck was their quarterback throughout Holmgren's tenure, leading them into the Super Bowl in 2005. After one year with Jim Mora, Seattle is in its sixth season under Pete Carroll, resulting in the franchise's greatest successes, including a Super Bowl title.

Brady Henderson of 710 ESPN Seattle caught up with WR Ricardo Lockette:

In an informal conversation with the media, Lockette said he's taking his recovery from surgery slowly and that he has yet to begin rehabbing. Lockette had surgery on Nov. 2, a day after sustaining ligament and disc damage in his neck when he was hit while covering a punt in Seattle's win over Dallas.

Lockette said he wears a neck brace at almost all times as a precaution.