Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald sat down for his usual weekly appearance on Seattle Sports 710AM Tuesday morning, giving his day-after assessment of Monday night's loss to the Bears, a couple of injury updates and more.

Here are six takeaways to Macdonald's weekly appearance on the Brock and Salk Show:

1. The loss was frustrating, but Macdonald isn't overreacting to it.

Monday's 34-17 loss was a tough one for the Seahawks to stomach, and the Seahawks know they need to get better, but Macdonald also isn't going to panic over the result. Despite not playing close to their best football, the Seahawks were in a 3-point game early in the fourth quarter, and had a few things gone differently, it could have been a much different finish.

"Frustrating's a good way to put it," Macdonald said. "Like I said after the game, we lost the game, it was a three-phase Seahawk loss, and that's a tough pill to swallow. That's something where you're disappointed. The itch is to say, 'OK, how do we change it? How do we make it better? Where are we going?' But I think it's also prudent to say, 'OK let's take a deep breath, let's understand that the margins in our league are very small.' It was a 3-point game until the game got out of hand there in the second half with all the things that hadn't gone our way. Let's stay the course, let's go back to work. There are things that we need to improve on and we need to get better at that are in our control, and that's all you can do. That's where our focus needs to be."

2. Macdonald wants to see his team recapture its style of play.

When Macdonald studied the tape a day after the game, he didn't see a lack of effort, but he did see a team that didn't play up to its standard or play its style of football.

"If we're going to go out, we want to go out in our way and our style, and that wasn't us, or the best version of us at least," Macdonald said. "So that's why I think it's so tough.

"We have to focus on recapturing us and making sure that we're us when we turn the tape on. There were too many times throughout that game where that wasn't us in terms of just our style of ball. That's where we need to get better."

Asked how to make that happen, Macdonald said players' intent is not the issue, noting, "They want to play that way too. It's the same thing, we come together and we go forward and we tell each other the truth on the tape and where we can improve on what's us and what's not and how we fix it, and we find those solutions and we go. That's what we do. That's part of our process here, we're always going to do it that way. But it definitely stings, for sure it stings."

3. Sam Darnold showed his toughness even if it wasn't his or the offense's best outing.

After not being sacked the week before in a win over the Chiefs, Sam Darnold was sacked three times and took several other hard hits, including one debatable one as he slid on a third-down scramble. And while Monday wasn't the best day, statistically, for Darnold, who was 17 for 34 for 188 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, Macdonald praised his quarterback's toughness in the game.

"Sam's a warrior, man," he said. "Do we want Sam to play better? Yeah. Do we need Sam to play more efficient football? Yes. But he also freakin' battled his tail off after getting hit. I hope everybody understands the type of courage that takes, and the toughness that this guy has to be able to play through the things that he was able to play through. There's urgency to get better for sure, but I think we can respect what Sam is doing physically as well."

4. Giving up three short rushing touchdowns was "unacceptable" for Seattle's defense.

The Seahawks have had one of the league's best run defenses for most of Macdonald's tenure in Seattle, and even on a tough day against the Bears, Seattle still held the league's leading running attack to a 3.6 yards-per-carry average, and that's with a 39-yard screen pass counting as a run because it was a lateral pass. But what Macdonald isn't OK with is the fact that the Bears managed to score three rushing touchdowns in the second half on runs of 1 yard, 5 yards and 5 yards. All three came after Leonard Williams, one of the best interior linemen in the NFL, left with a stinger, but Macdonald still wasn't OK with the inability to stop those red-zone runs.

"It's unacceptable," Macdonald said. "It's unacceptable. I don't know what else you want me to say. We've been running the same goal-line, red-zone defenses, series of defenses—nobody just reinvents red-zone defense. In the red zone you can only do X amount of things. There's limited space, and you have to have an identity about who you're going to be. Our identity here has always been, don't let them run it in, they have to throw the ball in the end zone. We have fallen short way too many times on that front, so it's unacceptable."

5. Quenton Nelson did some really good things in his debut.

If you're looking for a silver lining in a tough loss, aside from another big game from Jaxon Smith-Njigba, pop in the tape of Quenton Nelson's Seahawks debut. The All-Pro guard, who arrived in a trade last week, had a number of impressive blocks both in pass protection and the run game. And while the new-look line, and offense as a whole, has plenty of room to grow, it was an encouraging debut for Nelson.

"It's great to have Quenton, we're psyched," Macdonald said. "There were a lot of really great plays where he's moving people and cutting people out and doing Quenton Nelson things, which is really great. We've got to make it all come together."

6. Injury updates.

The Seahawks saw defensive tackle Leonard Williams exit the game in the third quarter with a stinger, and while Macdonald had no specific updates on Tuesday, he did say Williams has at least a chance to get back this week, as do three key players who missed the game due to injury, left tackle Charles Cross, receiver Rashid Shaheed and outside linebacker Uchenna Nwosu.

"I think those guys have a chance to come back this week, so we'll see" Macdonald said.

Macdonald acknowledged that his report was "pretty vague" but kept the door open to all four possibly returning for Seattle's Week 9 game against the Cardinals.