RENTON — Michael Dickson is off to the side of the indoor practice field at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center standing even with the back line of the end zone.

We’re talking about punting and all the various things Dickson can do when his right foot connects with a football. He’s talking about angles and geometry and things that likely were never considered when oblong was the shape chosen for a football.

In this case, he’s discussing the banana punt he used a couple weeks back in the Seahawks victory over Kansas City . And he’s making something that is incredibly difficult and precise to pull off successfully sound simple.

Just take a football and kick it the equivalent of standing on a tee box on the golf course, grabbing a driver and hitting a power fade — or a bending slice for most — from left to right and drop it in the middle of the fairway.

“A lot of times, those banana kicks, you’re kicking them like 20, 30 yards.…