Linebacker K.J. Wright, who had six tackles, including two tackles for a loss on one possession, played on, along with Bobby Wagner, Seahawks defenses that will go down in history as some of the best of all time, so it has been hard for him to see the defense struggle early in the year. Now, however, he sees Seattle's defense getting back to what it should be.
"It was rough in the beginning," Wright said. "It was rough. We all felt it and we got it corrected. Hat's off to Coach Carroll for his leadership in addressing it, and Coach Norton addressing things and just putting us in position to be successful. So we figured it out, and know that we've got to to eliminate these explosive plays, put the ball down in the middle to where we can just force everything and rally and tackle. We got back to Seahawks football. When bad things happen, we have great leadership in this building to where we get things figured out, and we've got to keep it going."
If a game this lopsided felt rare, that's because they are in the NFL, even when good teams play struggling ones. In fact, the 37-point margin of victory was Seattle's largest since a 58-0 win over the Cardinals in 2012, so it's not a surprise that Wilson said after the game that this performance felt like that run late in his rookie season when the Seahawks strung together blowout wins over Arizona, Buffalo and San Francisco.
"It felt kind of like, I go back to 2012, that moment where the offense and defense were really married up together," Wilson said. "I think we went to Buffalo and then we came back home maybe against Arizona or something like that.
"We just felt like we were all together, and there were so many other plays that we could've had we felt like on both sides. We stayed the course, we were ready, we were prepared, we took on the challenge, kept our heads down and just stayed focused on what we needed to do and executed, and was it a great day today."
And yes, blowing out a winless team won't mean much if the Seahawks can't back it up by playing well against better opponents, but getting the job done Sunday in such dominant fashion was a good step in the right direction for a team looking to bounce back from a tough loss.
"Obviously, they're struggling," Carroll said. "The statement that you make there; if you respect the process that you go through and you focus and you do your work, it doesn't matter who you play, and we've talked like that all the time, if you play a team that's struggling, you should beat them handily. We were able to do that today, and that's a statement about everybody being connected, everybody tuned in. I'm really pleased to get that done. Will we do it again? I don't know, we'll see. We're playing good defense, though, and we're on it, and that gives us a chance."
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