Seahawks to join the "Nuclear Option"

Previously I wrote about The Nuclear Option.  To recap, that rather than accepting a backup job, Tebow should sit out the pre-season and wait for a team's QB depth chart to collapse during the season.  At that point, desperation to save their jobs might override a GM and HC's aversion to the "distraction" that Tebow allegedly brings with him. Several teams are in danger of finding themselves in that situation, mostly due to inaction during the off-season.
However, I did not expect a team to voluntarily move themselves into that category, and certainly not a team that got within one game of the Superbowl. But that is exactly what the Seahawks have chosen to do by trading away Matt Flynn and failing to obtain a suitable replacement.

The Seahawks have a great young QB in Russell Wilson.  Wilson is a mobile QB who likes to scramble, and the Seahawks like to use him on the option.  He's also fairly small at 5'11 and 206 lbs.  He is fast and elusive, and does not take hits the way a Tebow-type runner does.  RGIII is also fast and elusive, but the Redskins found out to their chagrin that elusive QBs still take hits and still get hurt.  The ugly fact is that the Seahawks are one ugly hit away from having their season rest on the shoulders of  ... Brady Quinn.
Brady Quinn?  Really?  That's the best they could do?  Brady Quinn, who went 1-7 with KC last year?  Brady Quinn, whose career stats in the NFL include 12 TDs and 17 Interceptions?  And what do you suppose is going to happen when Wilson goes down with a season ending injury and Quinn steps in?  I'll tell you what will happen: the Seahawks will lose the rest of their games and watch the playoffs from their living rooms.
Now I don't blame the Seahawks for not picking Tebow as their backup QB.  When you have a solid starting QB and don't need competition at the position to raise his game, your backup QB should be someone who is content to remain a backup.  That is not Tebow.
But the fact that Quinn is considered a perfectly viable backup choice by the blogosphere and twitterverse, while any mention of Tebow brings immediate howls of protest, tells you everything you need to know about how irrational the anti-Tebow crowd has become.