The Seattle Seahawks
’ brand of turnover-free, complementary football won them Super Bowl LX last season. They didn’t commit a single turnover during their three playoff games. This season, they’ve already lost twice through just five games, and have coughed the ball up seven times in those losses alone. Cerebral veteran wide receiver Cooper Kupp took the topic head-on while speaking to the media on Tuesday.The Seahawks committed seven total turnovers in their two losses. The Commanders and 49ers turned those takeaways into 41 combined points -- in games decided by two and three points.
— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) October 13, 2026
In Seattle’s three wins: two turnovers that led to three points.
⁰Cooper Kupp on the issue: pic.twitter.com/DejmPrQRA2
“We have flashes and moments of efficiency,
moments of explosiveness, and moments of just playing really good football — and then we also have moments where it’s just not good enough. There’s mistakes, and there’s going backwards, and there’s self-inflicted wounds.”
“It’s our own stuff. It’s our own stuff right now and we just have to be better at it.”
Seattle’s offense hasn’t had trouble putting opposing defenses in a bind. Fellow receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba has picked up right where he left off after winning the 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year award. They’ve had long touchdowns from Rashid Shaheed and Emanuel Wilson out of the backfield. They don’t have trouble moving the chains. They don’t struggle in any particular down-and-distance scenario. The spurts of creativity are there. They’ve just put too much pressure on themselves.
There is no such thing as mistake-free football. Being engulfed by fear of failure is a terrible way to live, let alone coach or play football. Instead, the Seahawks need to be willing to make mistakes at 100 miles an hour.
If you get peanut-punched by future Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Fred Warner? So be it. You might’ve still been holding the ball high and tight. Think positively. Empower each other to have confidence in the offense’s ball-carrying ability by drilling it. Don’t hold back on physicality. Coaches would rather have to rein you in for going too hard in practice than try to motivate you to show passion.
In just two days, the Seahawks will enter Empower Field at Mile High for Week 6’s Thursday Night Football matchup against the Denver Broncos. The Broncos love playing low-scoring, physical games. Head coach Mike Macdonald, offensive coordinator Brian Fleury and the rest of Seattle’s coaching staff love empowering their players to believe in themselves. There are roughly 140 plays in a football game, and there will be mistakes on every single one of them. However, perfect is the enemy of good enough. Define the ones you can’t live with, drill them and don’t worry too much about the rest.
This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: The Seahawks offense can make mistakes. Just do it at 100 mph.
