The Seahawks have gone through a handful of changes defensively, at corner, safety and linebacker but players say those changes have just fueled them to be better.
“It’s a great mindset,” Love said. “When things shift and change, some guys can get in their feelings, some guys can isolate, you see it all the time across the league, but this team got closer. Guys were demoted, promoted, whatever it was. We’ve been changing a lot of things but we are focused on our goal. And our goal is just to win games, play good Seahawk football and make this community proud.”
Sunday’s win showed that the defense is continuing to stack good games on good games.
“Just trust in what we do,” Woolen said. “We have one of the best secondaries in the league and we just trust each other really well. We knew coming into the game, we had to be more physical and eliminate all the explosives and we feel like we did great at that today.”
On the other side of the ball, Geno Smith has watched the defense dominate and show that they’re “building something.”
“We talk about complementary football,” Smith said. “We talk about championship level football. When you got a defense that plays the way they play when they’re shutting down offenses the way they are at a high-rate week after week, it’s going to give you a shot to win every single game. We go out there and play clean and we manage the time of possession, do great on third down, finish in the red zone, give those guys a lead to play with, they’re going to be even better. I think our defense is outstanding, and I think they can continue to get better and I think they will.”