The Seahawks say goodbye knowing: “Our backs are against the wall and we have to go.”

Despite everything that went wrong for the Seahawks on Sunday – and a lot went wrong, from turnovers to costly penalties to multiple botched snaps – they were fully in it late in the game with a chance to win.

There was Geno Smith throwing perfect passes to Jaxon Smith-Njigba on the game-winning drive late in regulation time, there were multiple stops by the defense to make the comeback possible, and then there was a potentially game-winning drive to the 16 in overtime Los Angeles yard line.

But as has been the case with the Seahawks too often this season, that late-game fight, that ability to stay in the game until the end, wasn't quite enough to win, as the Rams emerged victorious by 26 -20 in overtime, handing the Seahawks their fifth loss in six games and dropping Seattle's record to 4-5 heading into their bye week.

Yes, the Seahawks showed a lot of fight, but had they not turned the ball over twice in the red zone or committed those 12 penalties or had two many drive-killing sacks and negative plays, including snaps that went past Geno Smith and into the backfield had been pushed or had an extra point attempt partially blocked, then they would have had a good chance to win in regulation without the need for late game heroics.

“We are disappointed that we were not able to capitalize on the opportunities we had to win this football game,” Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said. “I want to say this, first of all I want to thank our fans for showing up and being vocal. The place was electric when we started making some plays at the end of the half, the end of the fourth quarter, into overtime, they were with us the whole time. Promise me we'll do everything in our power and more to create a nightmare at home and right now we don't have to get to work, it's a big week for us to get better. At the moment we have an idea of ​​the symptoms, but what's behind them, why we don't play complementary football in 60. That's what we'll tackle this week and we'll move on. They played hard until the last second. Given all the adversity we faced or created, I just felt like we didn't back down and we just fought. So we have the right people, we just need to bring it to life. But our backs are against the wall and we have to go.”