DENVER -- The Seahawks offense knows it has to improve quick, fast and in a hurry following an overtime loss to the Broncos on Thursday night.

Seattle's offense went the first three quarters with just three points, but managed to tie the game up in the fourth quarter with a touchdown, a successful two-point conversion, and a Jason Myers 34-yard field goal to send the game into overtime. Through much of the game, the Seahawks had drives stall out. It wasn't that Seattle wasn't able to move the ball -– the offense ran 82 plays with 353 total net yards -– it's that they weren't able to move it efficiently, and quarterback Sam Darnold was sacked five times.

Head coach Mike Macdonald said the sacks are not just on the offensive line.

"It's on our offense. It's both," he said. "So it's how efficient we can run the ball. It's how efficient we can move the ball other ways. But the quarterback's getting hit way too much. So everybody sees that."

Although there were less giveaways than last week's loss to the 49ers, turnovers were once again a problem for Seattle on Thursday. Darnold threw two interceptions, including one in overtime, that set the Broncos up to kick a game-winning field goal. Seattle also fumbled the ball away, though the Broncos were not able to score on the following drive.

After the game, Darnold addressed the entire locker room, taking ownership of the turnovers.

"We just got to be better all around, and it starts with me," Darnold said. "So we just got to look at who we are as an offense, look at kind of things that we do well, things that we don't do well, and go from there."

Receiver Cooper Kupp understood why Darnold shouldered the blame, but maintains that the entire offense can do better and that would effectively help the qaurterback.

"We all play a role in protecting the football," Kupp said. "He's going to own that, I know he's going to own that, because that's who he is, but we are not doing a good enough job offensively to allow him to play in rhythm, we're not doing a good enough job allowing him to get into a flow, turning small plays into big plays. We're not going to do a good enough job in the run game. We're not doing a good enough job protecting him. There's a lot of things that need to improve. Sam's going to wear all of that, because that's who he is, but it's not really fair for him to shoulder all if it when we all have a role in what's gone wrong."

Jaxon Smith-Njigba led Seattle's offense with 134 receiving yards on 12 receptions, which is his fifth game this season with at least 100-plus receiving yards.

"You're gonna have ups and downs, but it's about how you respond at the end of the day and that's with good or bad things," Smith-Njigba said. "And we know that. And we're stumbling right now. I don't think we have fallen, but we're stumbling. But I wouldn't want to go into this season or the next week with any other guys [than the ones] in this [locker room]. I know we're gonna figure it out."

Smith-Njigba added: "We have to figure it out. Honestly I think the change is just us coming together, figuring it out and getting it going early in the game. We got off to a slow start, it's kind of been like that for a couple weeks now, so we could start there. Just coming in, grabbing the momentum and putting points on the board."

While they weren't able to do much through the first three quarters of the game, in the fourth quarter, Seattle was able to put together mostly cohesive drives to put up 11 points in the final frame.

"I mean Sam's playing lights out I think for a little bit there," Kupp said on the fourth quarter. "They knew we were going to drop back and pass and he did a phenomenal job. I think Jax made some huge plays for us. We just found ways to get the ball and move forward. I think Flerury did a good job with some of the tempo calls and being able to get up on the ball and that obviously helps a lot with the pass rush when you can keep moving forward like that and hopefully tire out that defensive line. So we've done a good job with that a few times now where tempo has been a good thing for us."

For a team that is not playing up to their own standard, and having lost three games, all by three points or less, there is a feeling of disappointment.

"There's certainly frustration and you got to find ways to win these close ones," Kupp said. "We haven't found the way to do that yet. And there's lots of our own self-inflicted stuff. There's mistakes across the board and too many to allow us to overcome it at the end of the day. And so there's more than enough intention, there's more than enough energy being put into these weeks in our preparation. The attitude of guys going out there onto the field is fantastic. I mean guys are bought into what we're building here, but it needs to continue to get better. The guys need to continue to grow and we got to chase those razor thin margins, those razor thin edges that we talk about all the time. We got to find ways to find those edges and be able to make plays come alive for the better for us."

Seattle will take this longer break between now and their next matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs (October 25) to look at what concerns they need to address.

"Why the ball's in jeopardy so much on offense? When you talk about complimentary football, all three phases picking each other up, that's who we are," Macdonald said. "We feel like that's our competitive advantage. When you talk about 12 is one, people together, the synergy of the team. Right now, we're not creating that run game. Quarterback's getting hit too much. So we'll look at it hard and find solutions and go from there."