Sam Darnold said Thursday that the Seahawks are spending this week on one thing before Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs: consistency. After six games that have included productive stretches and enough mistakes to leave points on the field, the quarterback said Seattle needs to clean up the way it strings plays together and get on the same page before Week 11.
The timing matters because the Seahawks are heading into Sunday’s prime-time matchup after a long weekend spent studying their own film. Darnold said the team has already addressed what needs to improve, and his message was direct: the offense has good things on tape, but it has to show them every drive, every day, not just in bursts.
“The biggest thing for us is consistency,” Darnold said, adding that the Seahawks need to be consistent day in and day out and prepare well against the Chiefs so they can play decisively. He said the offense has to create “a little more consistency” in how it is doing things, which means sustaining drives and stringing together six, seven or eight plays instead of stalling before a third-down conversion can finish the job.
That is where the frustration has lived through six games. The Seahawks offense has flashed, but turnovers and sputtering drives have kept that production from showing up consistently on the scoreboard. Darnold said the group has been doing a lot of good things, only for the result to look different than it feels on the field. The problem is not a lack of moments. It is the gap between moments and momentum.
Seattle’s coaches spent much of the long weekend in film study and meetings, and Brian Fleury said they were not just looking at the offense as a whole. They broke down what the Seahawks are doing well at every level, then went deeper into the schematic and position-level details to find what the team can lean into moving forward. That kind of review is designed to sharpen the pieces already working, not overhaul everything before Sunday.
There is also a reason the room sounds steady rather than rattled. Ernest Jones IV said Darnold has fixed similar problems before, and Mike Macdonald said Monday that the quarterback has been great and has been part of the conversations about where the team can go. That matters in a week when Seattle is trying to turn a promising offense into one that holds together over four quarters, not just a few snaps at a time.
For now, the test is simple. Seattle gets the Chiefs on Sunday, and the Seahawks will find out whether a week of self-scouting, a cleaner structure and a quarterback pushing for rhythm can turn those flashes into drives that last.
