The Seahawks opened the season with three straight wins, but their winning streak came crashing to a halt in Detroit on Monday night.
Lions quarterback Jared Goff didn’t throw an incompletion and the Seahawks could never climb out of an early hole on their way to a 42-29 loss. In his postgame press conference, Macdonald said players “fought the heck out of that game” and found some other positives about the performance, but the coach’s biggest takeaway was that the team isn’t where it needs to be if they are going to compete with the top teams in the NFC.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a litmus test, it just shows us we’re not the team that we need to be at this point,” Macdonald said. “I mean, that’s just — that’s what it is. Just wasn’t good enough. They did what they did to win the game, they did a …