RENTON, Wash. -- During his weekly interview with 710 ESPN Seattle on Monday, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said his team's captains spoke to teammates Saturday during their usual night-before-game meeting. The first thing that strong safety Kam Chancellor mentioned, according to Carroll, was the recurring penalty problem that again has plagued the Seahawks in 2017.

"He addressed it and hit it right between the eyes," Carroll said.

So you can imagine the coach's frustration when, less than 24 hours later, the Seahawks committed a season-high 16 penalties in a mistake-filled loss to the Washington Redskins. That total -- which was one off the franchise record set in 1984 -- included 10 on offense and three apiece on defense and special teams. It all added up to 138 yards against the Seahawks in a game they lost by three points.

"We’ve had enough penalties already in this season where you could say one of these games, it’s going to jump up and bite you," Carroll said afterward, "and that’s exactly what it felt like today."

After Sunday, Seattle (5-3) leads the league in accepted penalties with 82 and penalty yards with 682, according to ESPN charting. The New York Jets are second on both lists with 73 and 662, but over one more game.

This is not a new problem for the Seahawks, of course. They were the NFL's most penalized team in 2013 and 2014 -- when they reached consecutive Super Bowls -- and have never finished outside of the top 11 in penalties in any season since Carroll arrived in 2010.

It has been considered something of a tradeoff for the aggressiveness that Carroll demands from his players, and more often than not, the Seahawks have been good enough to overcome all the penalties. But there's a limit to that. Seattle exceeded it Sunday.

"That's kind of the way we have been raised in this program and it's been the way that I've coached for a long time," Carroll said. "This is not unusual for us to have penalties, but we're over the top and we're in a bad mode right now."

Carroll noted that the problem has been "across the board," and the breakdown shows as much. Seattle's 82 penalties include 33 on offense and 36 on defense, though the split was more pronounced on offense Sunday. Six of Seattle's 10 penalties on that side of the ball were against the offensive line, with all five starters committing at least one.

Right tackle Germain Ifedi was flagged for holding, which gives him an NFL-high 10 penalties on the season. Carroll said some of his four false starts have been a product of Ifedi trying to beat the snap by a split second as opposed to reflexively jumping on a hard count. His hold on Sunday came as quarterback Russell Wilson had broken from the pocket on a scramble to his right. The teaching point for Ifedi and Seattle's other linemen is that they have to trust Wilson's ability to outrun defenders on his own.

"He's one that hasn't really nailed the sense of, when Russell is getting out on his side, he’s got to release," Carroll said of Ifedi. "But he's had his share and it’s definitely a point of emphasis that’s been there for some time now. It’s disappointing that we aren’t fixing this faster.”

The way Wilson operates at the line of scrimmage has indirectly had a hand in some of the false starts, according to Carroll. He explained that Wilson will hold the cadence after adjusting the protection, scanning the defense for several seconds before calling for the snap. Carroll said Wilson is taking his time in those instances to make sure he's seeing things properly, but that can require the linemen to hold their stances for longer than they're able to without becoming antsy.

That's what happened Sunday when new left tackle Duane Brown committed a false start in the third quarter.

Carroll said he'll address that with Wilson, but he acknowledged that it's a dual-edged sword.

"That is something that we do and that does get us once in a while," Carroll told 710 ESPN Seattle. "Sometimes it gets us the checks that make the touchdowns as well, so there's some give and take there. I can understand it with Duane, first week. But it doesn't have to happen to the guys that have been around here. We're better than that."

The Seahawks' 82 penalties through eight games put them on pace for 164, which would shatter the franchise record of 138 set in 2011. (Seattle finished second in the NFL that season to the Oakland Raiders, who were flagged 163 times.) At this rate, the Seahawks also would top the franchise record of 1,183 penalty yards set in 2013.

Carroll said it could get to the point of reducing playing time for the worst offenders. He hopes it doesn't come to that.

"We’ve been on the topic and obviously we’re not doing the right stuff to get that done," he said. "This has never felt like such a big problem. It’s always been some issue, but I’m anxious to go get this thing fixed and get us turned so that we can just go play against the other team instead of ourselves."