'Not On One Guy!' Seattle Seahawks Ready To Move On From Loss To Baltimore Ravens
The Seattle Seahawks suffered their worst loss of the season on Sunday in the form of a 37-3 embarrassment to the Baltimore Ravens. While the loss was troublesome on many levels, it still just counts as one defeat in the standings, and just like big wins, there's no point in dwelling on it too long.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll addressed the play of the team and specifically that of quarterback Geno Smith. Carroll noted that you can't blame just one guy for the loss.
“We have to convert on third downs, which is everybody. We got rushed today pretty good. They rushed us and mixed their stuff really well. It was hard, like they’ve been on everybody. We just have to find out ways to make first downs. I think we were 1-for-12 on third down. You can’t play offense like that and expect anything. It’s as hard as it gets.
“I don’t think this is about Geno [Smith] at all. I think this is about our football team, not answering the bell here. We couldn’t get it done. We came in here to slug it out, and they did a better job than we did with all of this. When they’re rushing the passer, that’s not Geno [Smith]. This is not on one guy.”
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One issue the team has dealt with over the past month is turnovers. Seattle has turned the ball over eight times in the past four games, and Carroll knows that has to be cleaned up.
“I’m concerned about that. The one, on the fumble, that’s a pass-rush deal. The interception, he threw it up, and the guy who’s been making all the interceptions made another one. But that’s not the direction for us to be going. Up until this game, it took us to first place, whatever the heck we’ve been doing. We didn’t play like a first place team today. With those kind of turnovers, it’s really hard to win.”
Carroll has coached for a long time on many different levels and knows that you deal with one-sided losses just like you do lopsided wins.
“What I’m telling our guys is this is about the discipline that it takes to go to the next challenge. We talk always like that. Whether it’s a big win or a big loss or whatever the circumstance of what happened the week before. It’s the discipline that it takes to move on. That’s the challenge. This game is already over with and done. We can’t do anything about this one.
"It’s, what are we going to do when we come back on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to get back on track and not let this define us. I would like that this game was maybe a marker that this is where things shifted, and we came right back and got back on track, and we see us come back to who we are. ”
To get back on track, Carroll and the 5-3 Seahawks need a good performance against the 4-5 Commanders, a team that is also struggling for answers on both sides of the ball. It all goes down on Sunday at 1:25 p.m. PT on FOX.
