Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Week 5 Loss To The 49ers

Mike Macdonald (0:03)

All right, I think we just preemptive strike on the injuries. I think as of now, no updates except for Drake. He had an ankle, but he finished the game.

So, I don't know, we're disappointed.

I think our guys played hard. We stuck together. I think we got a tough team. I think we're a connected team. But in terms of playing like complementary football, the way that we want to play here as Seahawks and become the team that we want to become, we're not there yet. So, good news is we have a game in four days that we can move forward and learn from and try to grow from. So, that's the good news. But we need to grow quickly in terms of complementary football, definitely taking care of the football. Way too many giveaways at this point in the season. And we'll look at those and see how we can get it fixed moving forward. So, guys played incredibly hard. But the complementary piece of what we want to become right now is not there. So, we didn't do it and the 49ers did that today. So, give them credit. They played a good game and we'll move forward.

SPEAKER_2 (1:11)

Mike, what was your view of the final offensive play?

Mike Macdonald (1:15)

I don't know. They said he was short, so you gotta live with it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:21)

Mike, when you have a quarterback and Sam move, it's been a little bit weird this year. What were you telling him on the sideline? What is Coach Flory telling him to kind of keep him in phase to kind of maintain the standard that he usually does?

Mike Macdonald (1:34)

We're just, I mean, it's not like he doesn't know to like, we don't want to throw in receptions, you know, like, so stay positive, stick to it, trust your reads, take care of the ball. I mean, there's a lot of good, there's a lot of, obviously, we don't want to throw the picks and we need to find ways to start games a little faster on offense, but, excuse me, but I mean, Sam also did a lot of great things today, extending plays.

So you don't want to take that way from me either.

SPEAKER_4 (2:06)

Can you walk us through the end of the second quarter, the fumble in the end zone, run the stretch, they had three timeouts, just kind of what's your thinking there? Is there any, you know, any lesson you learned in that?

Mike Macdonald (2:20)

We should be able to execute run plays. So, we want to stay aggressive. I mean, he kicks a touchback, we're, you know, two plays away from field goal range and we're in good shape. So we want to stay aggressive and get points into half, the opportunity to get the ball coming out of the second half, so.

But we got to be able to execute our run game and hold on to the football. Straight up.

SPEAKER_5 (2:48)

Like I know Bob St. Luther's really wanted to get by. He had the two sacks on quarterback, hadn't sacked all year and that front stop at the end just put you in the game.

Mike Macdonald (2:56)

Yeah, you felt Murph today, happy form.

I think there's some good stuff, Russian coverage on defense that we did and there's some things that we need to improve on as well but like we talked about all week, their quarterback is a really good player. He saw a lot of plays on off schedule today that it's just, it's tough guy to get on the ground and like a sixth sense on knowing where everybody's at. So that's something that we want to obviously improve on, but Murph played a really good game.

SPEAKER_2 (3:24)

Well, Mike Evans obviously had some huge catches that just kind of great individual plays by him or what?

Mike Macdonald (3:30)

Yeah, great individual plays by him.

SPEAKER_6 (3:33)

George Holani had obviously a couple of fumbles today. With Jadrian Price, there was a point where he came out after the fumble. Was there any thought about that or is there a different perspective after the Washington game in terms of having him back?

Mike Macdonald (3:49)

We're just, I mean, no, I mean, short on backs, you know. I can't go out there and carry the ball, so, nor do we want to.

SPEAKER_4 (3:58)

You have to look at the film, but Ty Okada came back. What would you think of his return to action?

Mike Macdonald (4:03)

Good to have Ty back. Felt like we were on point. I don't really have like a, I got to watch it to see how Ty played, but I felt like we did some good things.