“The reason their record is what it is and what their record is in one-score games is because they are a good football team,” Macdonald said of the 13-2 Vikings. “We held on and had a chance to win the game. We didn’t do that. There are things we can do better in all three phases, but we did a lot of great things. We gave ourselves the chance to win. And we did.” So in a short week, we have to go back to work in about an hour. We have a good plan, but our fate is not in our hands at the moment, which is difficult. But we still have a lot of football ahead of us. A break here or there, we’ll be right back and roll over, head up, chest out and let’s move on.

It was a pretty grim postgame scene for the Seahawks, who had their NFC West fate in their own hands after four straight wins after the bye, only to come away with back-to-back home losses, and Macdonald said it was his team should go badly after this game.

“You know, it should hurt,” he said. “We worked incredibly hard. We’ve been through a lot of adversity as a team. We will stick together and get back to work. So we fight for the right to stay alive in one short week.”

While the Seahawks aren’t completely in control of their destiny, they know at this point that they need to recover and take care of business when they play the Bears on Thursday night. or more obscure tiebreaker scenarios, will make no difference.

“We have to win two, but it starts with one,” said quarterback Geno Smith, who threw for 314 yards and three touchdowns but was also intercepted twice. “We have a strong Chicago team on the road. I know their record isn’t the best, but if you watch film about these guys, they have a strong team with a lot of talent. We have to be ready to come after one.” Short week, going away for Christmas. Guys need to get their act together and get moving.

Linebacker Ernest Jones IV said, “We just have to do our job, which is to win. Then we let things fall where they fall. Hopefully we have a bit of luck and can get in there. But it’s tough in (the locker room).”

“We need to get going and put this behind us now. We have to prepare for Chicago. In these short weeks, you can’t really bask in it, especially when you’re losing, you can’t really bask in it.” Previous game, because in three days we’re going to be playing a completely different team that doesn’t care that we do Just lost the game. For us, the focus is moving forward, taking care of business in Chicago in prime time and then we’ll see what happens with this matchup against the Rams.