The Seahawks’ 40-3 win over the Jets on Sunday revealed a few sights seldom or almost never seen before — including DK Metcalf venturing into the stands to work a TV camera for a few seconds to celebrate a touchdown and Russell Wilson standing on the sideline in the fourth quarter, his work done for the day.

“That’s definitely rare,” said Wilson of the first snaps he hasn’t taken for Seattle since a defeat against the Rams in 2017 — a span of 45 regular-season games.

There also were records galore — safety Jamal Adams setting an NFL mark with sack No. 8 1/2 on the season, most ever for a defensive back since sacks became an official stat in 1982, and Wilson throwing his team-record 36th touchdown pass while also becoming the only quarterback in NFL history to have a winning record in each of his first nine seasons.

The sight that might have most pleased coach Pete Carroll’s eyes afterward, though, was that lonely “3” on the Jets side of the scoreboard — the first time Seattle had not allowed a touchdown in a regular-season game since a 27-3 victory over the Raiders in Oakland in 2018, a span of 37 games.

Sunday continued a string of strong defensive performances dating back to the second half of the loss to the Rams on Nov. 15.

Since then, the Seahawks have allowed just 64 points in 18 quarters, and an average of 14.5 in the four full games in that time. Consider Seattle had allowed at least 23 or more points in each of the first nine games.

“I’m just really fired up that at this time of year, we’re playing our best football,” Carroll said of the defense. “And it’s going to make a difference. If we’re going to have a chance to do something special this year, it’s going to be because the defense has really turned it around and put us in this kind of position.”

Sure, it was just the winless and hapless Jets, who fell to 0-13 and were 16 1/2 -point underdogs by the time kickoff arrived.

But as Carroll said later, “If you play a team that’s struggling, you should beat them handily.”

Seattle found out how tricky that can be with a shocking 17-12 defeat against the Giants last week (though the Giants are admittedly a much better team than the Jets).

But if that loss — which was Seattle’s fourth in seven games — sent shock waves of fear through fans, the players said they regarded it as just a bump in the road, which, while unwelcomed, is somewhat inevitable in just about any NFL season.

At least one Seahawk, Shaquill Griffin, said Seattle had overlooked the Giants. During their regular team meeting Monday, players vowed that wouldn’t happen again.

“Whether you win or lose, you’ve just got to make sure you respond,” said linebacker K.J. Wright. “And this team, we know how to handle losses, we know how to handle wins. And so we just got back to the drawing board. Nobody got to pointing fingers or blaming one another.”

Not that there weren’t some adjustments made.

The offense, which had been flummoxed by the Giants’ plan of playing soft and taking away big gains, decided to emphasize a quick passing game against the Jets, who had fired defensive coordinator Gregg Williams on Monday. Given the uncertainty of what the Jets might do with a new coordinator, the Seahawks decided to assume they’d try what the Giants did.

Seattle didn’t have a passing play of longer than 20 yards — the first time this season the Seahawks didn’t have one of at least 25.

Despite that, Wilson threw an average of 7.6 yards per attempt, not far off his season average of 8.0 and the best in the past five games.

“We wanted to make sure we got the ball out of Russ’ hands,” Carroll said after Wilson had been sacked five times last week — he was not sacked once by the Jets, the first time this season he has not been sacked. “Russ is great at the quick-rhythm stuff, and we just took advantage of it today.”

Seattle paired that with a rushing attack that churned out 174 yards, its second-most this season.

Carroll said the Seahawks “wanted to send a message, this is the style we want to play with. I’m in heaven, man. I love it. This is the way we like to ball, and 170-something for the day and throwing off that, that’s Seahawk football.”

Not that there weren’t a few moments of imperfection.

Seattle dropped three potential interceptions, two of which maybe could have been pick-sixes, one by Adams, who later said, frankly, “That was horrible.” Receiver David Moore also dropped a third-down pass that would have gone for a significant gain. Wilson threw an early interception when he tried to force a pass in the end zone to Metcalf. And the defense let the Jets march 48 yards for a field goal on the first possession of the game.

But to Carroll, Seattle winning so easily anyway spoke to the dominance of the day, which was Seattle’s largest margin of victory since a 58-0 win over Arizona in 2012.

After the opening series, the Jets never had a march of longer than 44 yards the rest of the day and never ended a drive closer than Seattle’s 19, with injury replacement kicker Sergio Castillo missing three field goals in the second quarter that could have maybe given the Jets at least a smidgen of hope.

Seattle, though, dashed that by scoring touchdowns on three consecutive drives to end the first half and begin the second, the last two coming on Wilson touchdown passes that allowed him to break his own team record of 35 in a season.

He came out after the record-breaker, a 3-yarder to Moore that made it 37-3 with 2:57 left in the third quarter, finally allowing Geno Smith to take his first snaps as a Seahawk in his 28th game with the team.

The victory allowed Seattle to keep pace with the Rams at 9-4 in the West, and a feel-good day was made even better by the Saints losing to the Eagles, dropping New Orleans to 10-3 and putting back into play the chance of getting the top seed in the NFC.

Not that it will be easy — Seattle now travels to play surging Washington before the showdown with the Rams on Dec. 27 back at Lumen Field that will likely decide the West.