Sunday night’s game is the next step for the Seahawks to become who we want to be

There’s still plenty of football to play for the Seahawks and the rest of the teams vying for NFC playoff spots, but the fact that Sunday night’s game against the Packers is such a meaningful game says a lot about what the team was able to accomplish. this season under first-year coach Mike Macdonald, particularly over the past month.

Coming out of their bye week and heading into a road game against the 49ers, the Seahawks were 4-5, having lost five of six following a 3-0 start. But less than a month after that game in Santa Clara, the Seahawks have won four straight games to improve to 8-5 and take first place in the NFC West, meaning Sunday’s game against the 9-4 Packers has big playoff implications. for both teams.

“We talked about it this morning, it’s the next game, but it’s about becoming who we want to become as a team and where we want to go, and that’s the next step,” Macdonald said. “It’s a big step, obviously, but it’s why you do all the things you do your whole life, and this whole year as a team, and all the steps we took to deserve this opportunity to have this step with this stake amount You must love it.

As Macdonald said, the Seahawks are still striving to become the type of team they want to be. As for Macdonald, the simplest way to describe who he wants the team to be can be summed up in a phrase he used when speaking to the team when the players first arrived in April , and which is painted on a mural that players pass on their way to the training ground that reads: “A STYLE NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY”

“It’s on that mural over there,” Macdonald said, nodding toward said mural. “I’m trying to make it not only a bunch of words on a wall, but also who we are. The things we’re talking about, 12 as One, that visual, that imagery, that vision of what we want to be. We’re getting there, but we understand that we have a month of football to play, starting with this one.