Seahawks Defense plays a "fantastic game" at Week 2

CHICAGO-The Seahawks' defense had a rather unpleasant start to the season when it first took the lead on Monday night, charging penalties on consecutive games to help the Bears, who opened the drive to their 4-yard line, quickly at 27.

Ten games and one more defense later, the Bears were in the end zone for a quick 7-0 lead, and it seemed like a defensive of the escheated Seahawks could have a long night.

But instead of letting this first possession of the Bears be a sign of things to come, the Seattle defense managed to be a brilliant spot in an otherwise disappointing night for the Seahawks, who lost 24-17 to 0-2 .

"Once we overcame the penalty with the defense, the guys played very well," Carroll said. "It's remarkable to see how Austin Calitro played, Mychal (Kendricks) coming in a few days, Akeem King starting and playing for the first time.

As noted by Carroll, the Seahawks have had a number of players because of injuries suffered by beginners of week 1, Bobby Wagner, K.J. Wright Flowers and Tre. Kendricks, who started for Wright, only signed with Seattle on Friday as King opened the season on the training bench before being added to the 53-man squad earlier this month.

"These guys did a good job because we played a good game in defense and we really gave ourselves a chance with some turnovers, and we were not able to take advantage of that. field twice that was huge, "said Carroll. "We are still working. You can see how well our guys are playing, you can see how they fought all the last seconds. It will help us win games, and we have to go, we have to win.

Players on both sides of the ball noticed the defense's effort, which limited the Bears to 271 yards and won two points. After their first touchdown, the Bears had four punts, two interceptions, a touchdown and a field goal the rest of the night.

"The only thing I'm going to say tonight is that our defense has really played well, being able to play without some guys and playing like that and playing hard as nails," said the quarterback. Russell Wilson. "Disappointing, we have not been able to do it. But I think it was one of the exciting parts for sure. "

Calitro, who made his first start at the linebacker, tied Bradley McDougald for the team at eight points, while Kendricks added three tackles, a sack and a pass in his debut for the Seahawks.

"It's hard to play without those guys and we did it, and Austin did a great job and Mychal Kendricks did a great job of winning the KJ title, doing a fantastic job and make good tackles. I think Calitro may have had eight or nine tackles, something like that probably, "said Carroll. "It was a huge night for him. It went very well for us.

"The defense played well," added Carroll. "I thought they had played a fantastic game and they were determined to throw the ball and they got 80 yards or something like that." The second-half drive was a really well-prepared training for them. and managed to make their way through the field by jostling and disengaging, but other than that, the guys played very well. "

Despite the absence of several key players, McDougald said that the new defense is not a big problem.

"Honestly, it was not that bad," said McDougald, who had eight tackles and a deflected pass that created one of Shaquill Griffin's two interceptions. "We have just communicated. We talked about this at the beginning of the week, we were going to focus on communication – on communication. When you have new guys like that in key places you have to communicate, you have to make sure everyone is on the same page. We had no room for mistakes, we had no room for "my troubles" or guys who did not communicate well. "

Another way for the Seahawks to mitigate the loss of two linebackers was to replace a linebacker with a third safety, leading Tedric Thompson to replace Kendricks, leaving Calitro as the only linebacker on the pitch, instead of playing five times with nickel. . defensive backs and two linebackers. Carroll said the Seahawks could try more in the future.

"We try to prevent linebackers from having too much game plan, to impose an excessive burden on them, especially Mychal to learn too much," Carroll said. "It's so short. I thought Bradley had played a fantastic game and once again, the safeties did a great job. They had to be there and to position Bradley and move him like that, and take T2 on the field, that's a nice substitution for us. I can not wait to see us grow up with that.

In the end, the Seahawks took off at home for the second week in a row, but thanks to a promising performance by a shorthanded defensive, not to mention the fight in the fourth quarter as evidenced by the offense, the players remain confident the right way soon.

"It's obvious that guys are upset, that we've been laughing for a long time, we were expecting a better start than this one, but that's what it is," McDougald said. "We can not linger too long. We have another big match on Sunday, so we'll see him again, overcome him and get back to work, that's the only thing we can do.

"I really feel that we are close. It is not good to be close, but we are close. It's something here or there, a piece here, a pay, a turnover, we just have to stick to the game plan, stick to our basics and keep playing our game, and things will turn out.