During Week 1, the Seahawks essentially shut the Denver Broncos run game down, only allowing 64 yards on 20 carries but in Week 2, things looked a bit different with the Patriots rushing for 185 yards and 5.1 yards per carry.

"I'm not happy about last week, to be honest with you," Seahawks linebacker Tyrel Dodson said. "The run game, that's how you make your bread and butter in the NFL, making the offense one-dimensional and you got to do that by stopping the run. We're making good progress, but the progress still has to be the number one thing, which is no one runs on us. That's the most disrespectful thing, in my opinion, is an offense running the ball on you. So we got to get that fixed and it starts with me. I got to up my game in the run defense, so I'm ready to do that this week."

Seahawks defensive tackle Jarran Reed added, "That does make us mad. We have to be way better than that. We're a better team than that, a better unit. We're going to get better."

Earlier during the week when head coach Mike Macdonald was asked about the performance of the defense, Macdonald took responsibility for the calls that were made and the preparation heading into that game.

"Scheme-wise, some things that without getting all the details, I'm putting that on my shoulders, on how we prepare or how we call it," Macdonald said. "Situations we're putting guys in, we can be better on that front, me in particular. And then on the other hand, there's just old school football fundamentals that we need to be better at in our front seven, our edge mechanics, how we're taking on blocks. Some of our run fits at the second level. Those things need to be improved. So I'd say it's a combination of both."

And although Macdonald wanted to take responsibility of the performance, Dodson disagreed saying the players also have to play their part.

"As much as coach (Mike Macdonald) is being humble, he puts it on himself. I think we got to do our job too. So we've had a good week of practice with our hands and our eyes and our feet, but it's on us. Coach (Mike Macdonald) can never call a perfect call, so we got to go out there and execute."

This Sunday, the Seahawks will face an offense with weapons like De'Von Achane who has rushed for 120 yards through two games, with 145 receiving yards, as well as the duo of Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle who have 154 and 150 receiving yards respectively, this season. So how exactly does a Seattle defense clean up their run game against an offense like that?

"It's just details, hands, feet, eyes," Dodson said. "It's just all the little things that coach (Mike Macdonald) talks about."

But Dodson knows that it won't come as an easy task, pointing out that Miami's offense is also equipped with speed.

"Speed, man. They got a lot of speed. I got a lot of respect for those guys coming from the AFC East. Guys better be drinking their water and better put their track shoes on because of the speed, a lot of misdirection and just trying to mess up your eyes. So if you stay fundamentally sound, I think we'll be all right."