1. Seahawks have done a lot of things well, but are “just not as consistent as we want to be right now.”
Two things that were evident in Sunday’s loss were that the Seahawks are good enough to go toe-to-toe with the NFL’s elite, but also that they aren’t consistently doing all the little things they need to do to close out some of those games. Despite an early 10-point deficit against a team that came into the game with a 12-2 record, the Seahawks battled back and took a four-point lead in the fourth quarter, but couldn’t quite make the plays they needed to hold onto that lead, or to take it back.
“Our guys know what it looks like, and we’ve done those things at times throughout the year, we’re just not as consistent as we want right now,” Macdonald said. “But when we talk about December football, it’s complementary. You know, we use terms like ’12 as one,’ but that’s really what it looks like and that’s why we have those terms. That’s why we’ve talked about those things throughout the entire year and that’s what we’re chasing, that vision of how we want to play, but it’s a rugged, it’s a physicality, it’s a togetherness, great situational football that you can take advantage of those windows to win games like that, but that’s what it looks like.”
Asked what he learned reviewing the film of the game this morning, Macdonald said, “We had our opportunities. We had our opportunities to win the game. You’ve got to give the Vikings a lot of credit with their track record in tight games like that, being able to play well when it matters most and we fell short, so we’ve got to move on. We’ve got to go. The destiny’s out of our hands right now, and that stings, but we got a lot to play for still, and like we were talking about this morning with our staff, we’re just going to keep hammering away until this thing cracks, and I think it’s right there. So we want to be ready when that happens and hopefully we get an opportunity to get into the dance and go do some damage.”