Seahawks Show Fight In Loss To Lions, But Also Show They Have Room To Grow

The Seahawks will try to take the next step towards being the team they believe they’re capable of being when they return home to face the Giants, then a Thursday night showdown with the 49ers follows in Week 6. There will be more ups and downs as the season progresses, but even in this loss, Macdonald sees an important trait developing in his team that should help them throughout the year.

“There’s a feeling that you see in the guys’ eyes where no one’s hanging their heads, everyone’s just laser-focused, poised, just like we’ve talked about throughout the Denver game,” he said. “That’s a characteristic of our team that we’ve had throughout the season, so proud of that. It’s easy to start looking around and woe is me type of idea, but that’s not our guys.”

Players on both sides of the ball notices the same thing as their head coach.

“I think we showed resilience,” defensive tackle Jarran Reed said. “Nobody got down during the game. We all had belief that we could win at any point of the game, we just had to get a stop, but that didn’t happen.”

Added running back Kenneth Walker, “We kept fighting. That’s it, we kept fighting, that’s the positive.”

When the Seahawks fell behind 14-0 after a turnover, Smith rallied his teammates, making sure everyone’s mind was in the right place, and he liked the response he saw out of the team the rest of the way.

“We’re all in this thing together,” Smith said. “We don’t expect things to be easy. Adversity is a good thing, especially early in the season. And so, for us to come out the way that we did in the second half, and you can see the fight that we have on this team, the resiliency we have on this team, and just the type of men in that locker room, the way that they all fight for one another. We got ourselves back in the game, and gave ourselves a shot at the end, and that’s really all you can ask for when you start out like that.

“We’re just a group of bad MF-ers, man, that’s just the type of guys we got on this team, and no one had any doubt, and that’s the thing that you could see. When we walked out there on that field, we were down 14, but there was no doubt that we were going to give ourselves the chance to win. Unfortunately, we didn’t do enough, I didn’t do enough, to get that done. But it’s one game, move on, go to next week.”