Seahawks 13, 49ers 31.
Q. Geno, how did your arm feel tonight?
GENO SMITH: It was good enough to play, so wasn't thinking about it. Just trying to go out there and win.
Q. Do you feel like it was affecting you at all?
GENO SMITH: No, not at all.
Q. What did you feel like you guys need to do offense to find the consistency that hasn't been there?
GENO SMITH: I think kind of starts with every guy individually really just looking at his own film, his own tape, kind of looking himself in the mirror and say, what can I do to help the team? How can I be more consistent? How can I be more effective on a down-to-down basis and play better so that we can score more points than we are right now?
It directly starts with me. But as you know, we're all connected out there, all 11, so every single guy has to look himself in the mirror, starting with me. We get time reflect on this. It's tough. We get the time to reflect on it, figure out ways to get better.
Q. Along the same lines, I think you guys had three offensive touchdowns in the last four games. How do you find that feel that you had last year to start moving the ball better, getting in the end zone when you get down there?
GENO SMITH: I still believe in the guys that we have. Still believe in our coaches. Still believe in the players. I think it's been a tough stretch for us, but I believe things will turn around.
What we have to do is continue to work with hard, if not work harder. There is no excuse for it. There is no words that I can say that will make it better.
What needs to be done is we need to work harder. We need to find a way. We got a lot of talent. We got a lot of good players on this offense. We got the right coaches. So we got to believe, continue to stay consistent in our work, and then we just got to work harder and find a way.
Q. Geno, how indicative or not indicative do you think tonight was to say where you guys are versus where the 49ers are?
GENO SMITH: It's one game. One game. We lost one game tonight. They beat us. Hats off to them. They're a really good team. They showed it tonight.
But I don't feel like we need to let one game affect the next one. We got more games to play. We got to keep moving forward. Like I said, we got to work harder. I'm definitely going to do that starting tomorrow.
Q. 24-10 in the third down pass and Smith-Njigba. I don't know if you could see there was contact there.
GENO SMITH: Yeah, there was contact.
Q. Okay. That's my first question. How pivotal was that sequence? Instead of a one-score game, it was still a two-score game. How could it have changed?
GENO SMITH: I mean, we saw it last week with 'Spoon, right, how pivotal those calls or no calls are. I'm not one to get on the refs. I know they have a tough job. I don't know if they did or did not see it, but from my vantage point I could clearly see him getting held, and it affected him being able to catch the touchdown right there and that affected us being able to get points, so that's a four-point swing, and in games like this, every point matters.
So tough call, but, hey, that's how it is sometimes.
Q. You ran over there. Looked like you pleaded your case. What did the official tell you?
GENO SMITH: He had no words.
Q. Four defensive guys come in, all said the same thing: slow start was the reason for what happened today. Same on the offensive side. If so, how could that happen in a game of this magnitude, national TV, all those things?
GENO SMITH: You know, I don't know. I don't have the exact words, but what I can say is that it's football and sometimes games go like that.
But I think that's the reason why they have four quarters. I don't think when we came into the halftime we felt like we didn't have a chance to win. We still felt like we had a chance to come out in the second half and turn things around, and I felt like we did but it just wasn't enough.
We got the ball moving a little bit in the second half, got in the red zone, didn't finish, but I just feel like we got to be consistent throughout all four quarters.
Like you said, we got to start faster. I don't know exactly why it didn't happen the way it should've or we felt like it would've, but that's something we got to correct.
Q. Execution is one thing; maybe this is a question for Shane. As the quarterback, what would you change in terms of game plan? Get the ball out quicker? To change the way things are right now.
GENO SMITH: Yeah, I don't know. I can't say anything about the game plan. I feel like Shane always does a great job. I've got his back 110%. He knows that. I feel like it comes down to us executing better as players. No matter what the play is called, it comes to the players making it come to life.
Shane's called so the great games for us and is going to continue to do that. I just think overall, we just got to stay confident, got to keep believing in what we're doing, keep believing and trusting in our process.
Shane will continue to call great plays, and we just got to execute them.
Q. How is your ankle or foot?
GENO SMITH: I'm okay. I'll be all right.
Q. You said you plan on working harder. What does that look like?
GENO SMITH: I don't know if you guys will be able to exactly see that, but hopefully the results will show on the field on game day.
In terms of just overall, everything, you just got to work harder. If you're putting in -- it feels like I've been putting in 20 hour days lately, but, shoot, man, make I got to put in 24 hour days to get this thing right.
Q. How do you feel like you played today?
GENO SMITH: I haven't seen the film yet, but wasn't good enough to get a win, score any points, so definitely not up to my standard.
Q. Why do you think the games against the 49ers, last four you played, have gone this way?
GENO SMITH: Shoot, they beat us. Simple as that. Can't make an excuse for if. It's football, sports. Sometimes a team comes out and beats you.
But the good thing about it is we got another chance to go against these guys in a few weeks. I think everyone has to take that personal. I know I am. We all got to take it personal. Can't keep coming out here and letting them beat us like that.
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