After he spent Thanksgiving afternoon getting burned by Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, Seahawks strong safety Deon Grant made comments that were perceived as criticizing the Seahawks’ coaching staff.

Grant, speaking for the first time since the game, pulled the old taken-out-of-context card. He said he didn’t mean to assign blame to defensive coordinator John Marshall, whose unit ranks 30th in the league.

“When I say pressure, pressure means a guy in the quarterback’s face,” Grant said, per the Tacoma News-Tribune. “I don’t talk about blitzes. Blitzes never came out of my mouth. It is pressure. Even if you are in the game on the front line, you have to make sure all the lanes are covered when that quarterback steps up in the hole.

“That is the key; you have to keep a guy in the quarterback’s face. That is pressure. Pressure is not always blitzing. That’s what some people think. Pittsburgh, that is the real definition of pressure. They got four turnovers (against New England) and they barely blitzed. But they got pressure on the quarterback with them four guys they had and three guys they had rushing.”

So, just to be clear, Grant isn’t blaming the Seahawks’ coaches. The fault lies with that sorry Seattle front four, apparently.