The Seattle Seahawks are moving fast from one test to the next, and there’s no time to linger on Sunday’s 32-29 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. With a Thursday Night Football matchup against the Denver Broncos sitting just days away in Week 6, the focus in Seattle has shifted squarely to handling the short week and getting back on track.
Head coach Mike Macdonald said the team is treating this stretch as a chance to sharpen what it already believes in.
"We expect to grow in all three phases," head coach Mike Macdonald said via the team's website. "There's a sense of urgency to grow.
Sometimes, you grow best by doubling down on your core competencies and the things you believe in. That's something we want to focus on is making sure that we're all aligned in all of the things, from players to coaches and how we want to play and how we want to execute and what's expected of us.
"We're growing on defense. We're growing on special teams.
Our special teams took a jump yesterday. Offense is right there with it, but there's a sense of urgency to get going."
That urgency makes sense. The Seahawks have now dropped two games this season, and they’re trying to avoid matching last year’s loss total. It’s also been nearly two years since Seattle lost back-to-back games, which adds even more weight to this quick turnaround.
Linebacker Derick Hall said the short week helps the team snap out of the disappointment quickly.
"That's the good thing about us this week," linebacker Derick Hall said via the team's website.
"We have a game on Thursday. The guys are process oriented.
We're ready to get back to work. Obviously, look at the tape, see where we can grow, see what we can do better, and that's a lot, obviously.
Just trying to learn those things and get ready to move forward, toward Thursday because we have a big one in Denver."
Seattle enters the week two games behind in the NFC West standings, so the path back up the division board starts with Denver. The Broncos are one of the better teams on the Seahawks’ schedule, and with the Seahawks aiming to reestablish themselves as Super Bowl contenders, this is the kind of game that demands full attention.
On a short week, there’s no luxury of dwelling on what went wrong. The Seahawks have to clean up the mistakes from the San Francisco loss, get their minds right, and make every rep count before Thursday night arrives.
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