EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Doug Baldwin was sorry for the way he handled himself when he shoved offensive line coach Tom Cable while trying to deliver a message to his offensive teammates during a heated moment on the sideline Sunday.

"I lost my cool," the wide receiver said. "It's 100 percent my fault."

As for the message itself, he meant it.

"The basic sentiment was, what are we doing?" Baldwin said after the Seattle Seahawks' 24-7 win against the New York Giants. "We have all the talent in the world. We have everything we need right here. It's not the playcalling, it's not the X's and O's, it's not the other team -- it's us."

Baldwin's frustration boiled over in the second quarter, when Seattle's offense came away empty-handed after another long drive. The same thing had happened earlier in the half when the Seahawks marched from their own 10-yard line deep into Giants territory. They ran a whopping nine plays from at or inside New York's 10-yard line but turned the ball over on downs after Russell Wilson's fourth-and-goal throw to Jimmy Graham in the end zone went through the tight end's hands.

Two possessions later, another Graham drop and three penalties kept a 12-play drive from going any further. The offensive totals at that moment in the game: two drops, at least one missed throw from Wilson, three false starts and three other accepted penalties, a lost fumble by Thomas Rawls and no points.

Baldwin became heated when Seattle's offense returned to the sideline. He wasn't going after Cable when he gave the coach a one-handed shove amid a huddle of offensive players. Baldwin was yelling towards Wilson. Cable had been instructed by coach Pete Carroll to address the offense when it came off the field, but Baldwin felt Wilson should be the one doing the talking.

"At that moment, I was really frustrated with the offense as a whole. Not the coaching staff -- the players," Baldwin said "... We had the play calls. We just didn't execute. Whether it was passing the ball, blocking, catching, jumping offsides, false starting, whatever it may be, we weren't executing as players, and to me there is nothing a coach can say. We have to take accountability for that."

Baldwin's point hit on what has been a larger issue for a Seattle offense that ranks in the middle of the pack this season. It hasn't always been a matter of being outplayed or overmatched. The Seahawks have at times gotten in their own way.

Dropped passes have been a recurring problem. C.J. Prosise and Tanner McEvoy each had a potential touchdown go off their hands against the 49ers, but Graham has been the biggest culprit. Among his drops were one on third down late in Seattle's loss to Green Bay and another against Indianapolis that led to an interception. His second drop on Sunday came when he was wide-open and would have had a long gain. Graham made amends with a late score Sunday.

Wilson has played well under constant pressure this season, but he's also been uncharacteristically inaccurate at times, missing some throws that he usually makes. One was a deep ball that he overthrew to Tyler Lockett in Green Bay. He had a similar miss to Baldwin in this game.

Seattle's offensive line has often been outclassed, to be sure. But the early issues on Sunday weren't a product of that group getting handled by a superior opponent as much as they were about Seattle's offense as a whole shooting itself in the foot.

It's why the Seahawks trailed 7-3 at halftime despite outgaining the Giants 222 to 42. Seattle's offense righted itself with three touchdowns in the second half, which showed how effective it can be when it's not committing unforced errors.

"[Carroll] always talks about, you don't win the game in the first quarter, the second quarter, the third quarter -- you win it in the fourth quarter," Baldwin said. "The sentiment that he's trying to demonstrate there is that it's a process. It doesn't matter how crappy you play in the first half; you have an opportunity to still win the game in the second half. Fortunate enough, we've got one of the best defenses in the NFL right now that keeps us in games toward the end of the game, so all we have to do is continue to progress. It's a process, so we'll figure it out."