The Seahawks are a quarter of the way through the regular season with a 2-2 record. Looking up in the standings at this week's opponent, the Los Angeles Rams, isn't where the Seahawks want to be, but the start of the season has hardly been a disaster either. Yes, there's still work to be done, particularly in how they start games offensively, but the Seahawks have seen some encouraging signs, particularly in last week's win over the Indianapolis Colts.

"I like where we jumped to this last week," Carroll said when asked about where his team stands after four games. "We've been close to doing a lot of good stuff, it just hasn't clicked like we'd like… We can get started better, but I think we are ready to move on. I really think we can keep going, and I think our guys have really captured what we are after in terms of the formula of it, and it always comes back to the running game and converting on third downs for the offense, and playing good run defense and staying on top on defense. What was great was the pass rush was really alive .We finally got to see what it was like to be ahead. We haven't had a score that really got out in front like you need to really get all that cranking. So a lot of great things that we've learned in the first quarter, and we are playing a very important game for our division positioning right now, which doesn't mean anything this time of year, but we know where we are."