Whatever it is that the Seahawks have rediscovered over the past two games — some players call it a feeling, others an attitude — the trick now is not to lose it before taking the field again on Dec. 7 at Philadelphia.

“It’s easy to have two games and play well,” said defensive end Cliff Avril after a 19-3 win at San Francisco Thursday night. “The hard thing in the NFL is to be consistent. That’s what we’ve got to do.”

But in the happy aftermath of the surprisingly easy win over the 49ers — as players gnawed on pieces of the turkeys given by NBC to the victors — there didn’t seem to be much doubt that the sky is again the limit for the Seahawks.

“We are back to the feeling (the team had in 2013),” said receiver Doug Baldwin after what was a second win in five days against an NFC West rival — the other coming against Arizona. Each victory was by a 19-3 score, properly illustrating the dominance of the wins.

Players continued to cite the soul-searching of the previous week, including one meeting after an argument during a walkthrough that erupted when safety Earl Thomas objected to some teammates eating sunflower seeds.

Coach Pete Carroll, though, had already set the wheels for attitude readjustment in motion following a 24-20 loss to Kansas City on Nov. 16 that dropped Seattle’s record to 6-4. Early that week. Carroll sensed that the team needed a little reminding that there was too much ability on hand to not be fully committed to the task and had meetings with team leaders. Players later met among themselves.

“I would say that we were lost for a little while,” Baldwin said. “But I’ve got to give a lot of credit to Pete for feeling out the locker room and figuring out what we needed. And he figured it out.

“We have enough talent where even if we don’t play together, we are still going to do some good things. But it’s just not going to be clean. So we needed to find a way to play together and trust each other, and that way everything is moving forward as a well-oiled machine. And that’s what you see now.”

While the team’s psyche was improving, so was its health. The two-game sweep of Arizona and the 49ers coincided with the return of middle linebacker Bobby Wagner and the return to form of strong safety Kam Chancellor.

After allowing a season-high 190 yards rushing at Kansas City, Seattle allowed just 128 against the Cardinals and 49ers — 64 in each game, on a combined 38 carries. That has dropped Seattle’s rushing yards allowed per game to 86.3, on pace to be the best in team history (the 2005 Super Bowl team has the current record for fewest rushing yards allowed per game at 94.4).

The return of Chancellor and Byron Maxwell also solidified a secondary that has now gone three games (and 15 quarters overall) without allowing a touchdown pass.

Seattle allowed just 368 yards overall to the Cardinals and 49ers to drop its per-game average allowed for the season to 285.8, not far off the 273.6 allowed by last year’s team that is a franchise record (the Seahawks are allowing just 252 yards in their last seven games).

Offensively, Seattle has been efficient, if not spectacular, during its revival. The Seahawks continue to lead the NFL in rushing at 168.6 while Russell Wilson has bounced back from a midseason slump to complete 52 of 76 passes (68.4 percent) in the last three games for 625 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.

Seattle, in fact, doesn’t have a turnover in its last three games while forcing five and now has plus-eight turnover differential for the season, more in line with the team’s usual style of play.

The special teams, which also went through a rocky patch at midseason due in part to a slew of injuries that forced Seattle to use some players no longer on the roster in prominent roles for a few games, also has returned to form (not to mention always-steady kicker Steven Hauschka hitting 8 of 9 field goals the last two weeks and 27 of 30 for the season, tied for the NFL lead).

The road, though, gets no easier with games remaining against the 9-3 Eagles, home to the 49ers, on the road at Arizona and then home to St. Louis.

“This is what we’re capable of doing,” Carroll said. “Obviously we’ve been able to do it for a couple of weeks, but we have to follow it up with one of the best teams in the league next time. We’ll see what happens.”

Notes

• The Seahawks made a change to their 53-man roster Friday, placing rookie linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis on Injured Reserve and claiming cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy off waivers from the Colts.

Pierre-Louis suffered a shoulder injury against the Chiefs on Nov. 16 and Carroll had hinted he might be headed to IR. A fourth-round pick out of Boston College, he will end his rookie season with 10 tackles in seven games.

Purifoy, an undrafted rookie free agent out of Florida, was a backup corner and special-teamer for the Colts. He was surprisingly waived on Thursday, with the Indianapolis Star reporting that a series of “minor, in-house disciplinary issues” led to the release.

• The game attracted a 35.5 rating and a 74 share in the Seattle-Tacoma TV market (the rating is the percentage of all TVs tuned to the game and the share the percentage of all TVs in use at that time tuned to the game).

That was, by far, the top local rating/share in the nation for the game — Sacramento was next at 26.4 and 56. Nationally, the game drew a 12.5 rating and 25 share, the best for a Thanksgiving prime time game.

• A San Francisco 49ers fan who sued the NFL, the Seattle Seahawks and Ticketmaster because he was barred from buying playoff tickets has appealed a judge’s order to dismiss the case.

John Williams III of Las Vegas filed the $50 million lawsuit in federal court in April, claiming the practice of limiting ticket sales to people who only live in certain geographic areas violates the Federal Consumer Fraud Act. Williams claimed tickets to the Jan. 19 NFC Championship Game between Seattle and San Francisco were limited to people with credit cards in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii.

The NFL said the suit should be dismissed, arguing it was not involved in ticket restrictions. The Seahawks said they had no legal obligation to ensure all fans have access to tickets.

On Oct. 31, a judge agreed and dismissed the case. Williams filed an appeal Thursday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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