Since taking over as the Seahawks’ head coach in 2010, Pete Carroll has grown accustomed to winning. Seattle won at least 10 games in each of the past five years, and has a chance to make it six in a row by winning its last two games in 2017.

As good as the Seahawks have been, however, the Rams have given them fits. Despite having exactly zero winning seasons (excluding 2017) since Carroll took over in 2010, the Rams are 7-9 against the Seahawks the past eight seasons, proving to be a tough out for Seattle.

On Sunday, something happened that had never occurred before. The Rams beat the Seahawks by 35 points at CenturyLink Field, handing Carroll his first 35-point loss at home as the Seahawks’ head coach.

He admitted afterward that he’s never seen that before.

“We’ve not seen us play like that and seen that kind of result,” Carroll said. “So it’s on all of us to hold ourselves accountable. We didn’t do that right, from any aspect of it.”

The Seahawks ran just 54 plays on Sunday to the Rams’ 68, gaining only 149 total yards – or 2.8 yards per play. Nothing about that is acceptable, even by the Seahawks’ standards for their stagnant offense.

They’re lucky the score didn’t get even uglier, too, given the fact that Todd Gurley was yanked in the third quarter.

Carroll isn’t discouraged despite the awful result, vowing that the Seahawks will bounce back in Week 16 against the Cowboys.

“You’ve been with me for a long time, and we haven’t seen that before. We’re going to crank it up and get going again,” Carroll said.

Beyond getting beat so badly by the Rams, it seemed like a changing of the guard in the NFC West. The Rams flexed their muscle and showed that they’re here to stay, while the Seahawks seem to be past their prime. Could this be a sign of things to come?