\n 2. The defense finished strong after some early struggles.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it was the time difference, with Thursday’s practice began at 8:30 a.m. PT, or maybe it was a lack of traction\u2014several players changed cleats after slipping early in practice\u2014but the day didn’t get off to the best start for the Seahawks defense.<\/p>\n
“We did some good stuff. You’re going against a team that you haven’t seen and haven’t really prepared for, so our guys reacted to their formations and movements well,” Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said. “Took us a couple of plays to get our feet settled, get used to the surface. Situational football did some positive things. There’ll be more that comes up when we watch the tape.”<\/p>\n
Said defensive lineman Leonard Williams, “I’m going to have to watch the tape to know for sure, but we started off a bit sluggish. We’re going to have to get used to traveling and starting fast. We picked it up towards the end and finished pretty strong.”<\/p>\n
But as the practice went along, Seattle’s defense stepped it up, including a great session of seven-on-sevens in the red zone that featured multiple pass breakups from Riq Woolen, one from Shaquill Griffin and another from Nehemiah Pritchett.<\/p>\n
“Red zone skelly, the guys were on it,” Macdonald said. “That was a great period for us, but you’re running your stuff and seeing how you guys execute and make calls in real time, which is great to see.”<\/p>\n
The secondary also produced multiple pass breakups during a two-minute drill late in practice, with Woolen, Griffin, Pritchett and Josh Jobe all getting in on the action.<\/p>\n
“In that two-minute drive, without watching film, towards the end of practice, I think they didn’t catch a ball for the first five or six plays,” Williams said. “That was all secondary. I’m looking forward to seeing what else they did on film.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. The defense finished strong after some early struggles. Perhaps it was the time difference, with Thursday’s practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[1162,7,509,2869,507,506,31439,6,238,237,261,57143,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-308239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-elijah-arroyo","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-hero","11":"tag-jaxon-smith-njigba","12":"tag-news-national-feature","13":"tag-news-stories","14":"tag-news-training-camp","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-seahawks","17":"tag-seattle","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks-at-green-bay-packers-2025-pre-3","20":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115071768841779320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}