The Seahawks opened the season with three straight wins, but their winning streak came to a halt Monday night in Detroit.

Lions quarterback Jared Goff didn’t throw an incompletion and the Seahawks could never climb out of an early hole en route to a 42-29 loss. At his post-match press conference, Macdonald said the players “fighted all game” and found some other positives about the performance, but the coach’s biggest takeaway was that the team is not where it needs to be if they want to compete . with the top teams in the NFC.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a litmus test, it just shows us that we’re not the team we need to be at the moment,” Macdonald said. “I mean, that’s just… that’s it. Just wasn’t good enough. They did what they did to win the game, they did a great job, they had a great plan and we came up short. So how do we move forward now as a football team and take the next step because we have a short week ahead of us and there is urgency – I mean there is always urgency but we have to get to work here in the next few days and make sure that this will be okay.’

The schedule favors a rebound for the Seahawks as they will be at home against the Giants in week five, but Monday night’s loss and the lessons on what the Seahawks need to do to get to the level of the Lions will stick around even as they beat their NFC East foes.