RENTON, Wash. -- While most Seattle Seahawks players have expressed their displeasure over the quick turnaround they're facing this week with a Thursday night game -- a common sentiment throughout the NFL -- kicker Blair Walsh acknowledged that it comes at a good time for him.

"Absolutely," he said Tuesday, two days before the Seahawks face the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium (8:25 p.m. ET, NBC). "The less time you have in between games the better when you have a bad game, because the first thing you want to do is go out and prove to your teammates, yourself, that you are who they think you are."

Walsh is in a hurry to do that after missing all three of his field goal attempts Sunday against the Washington Redskins, which, along with several other mistakes by the Seahawks, proved costly in a game they lost by three points. It led to questions about the team's confidence in Walsh, Walsh's confidence in himself and the decision Seattle made to sign him to a one-year, prove-it deal in free agency before letting longtime kicker Stephen Hauschka walk.

It did not lead to any finger-pointing in Seattle's locker room Sunday night. Teammates supported Walsh and coach Pete Carroll insisted he wouldn't have thought twice about attempting a field goal had the Seahawks been in range on their final play. When declaring on Monday that Seattle wouldn't bring in another kicker this week, Carroll was quick to point out that Walsh had made 12 of 13 attempts before his three misses Sunday.

"I was counting on him to kick the winner," Carroll said. "I figured he'd have made it, and I would have gone with him with no hesitation."

There was a time earlier in his career where a poor performance like that one may have sent Walsh back to the drawing board, but he now knows to resist that inclination. One bad game, Walsh says, shouldn't suddenly change his routine, the way he approaches practice or how he thinks about himself.

It's a lesson he learned after the way his career with the Minnesota Vikings went badly off track. Walsh went from a first-team All-Pro as a rookie in 2012 and one of the steadier kickers in the NFL over the next few years to unemployed midway through last season. It was the result of a decline that seemed to start in January 2016, when Walsh missed a chip-shot field goal against the Seahawks that would have sent Minnesota to the divisional round of the playoffs. He was 12-of-16 to start the following season when the Vikings released him in November.

"You learn a lot about yourself and you learn a lot of what works and what doesn't work," said Walsh, who sees a sports psychologist in Florida. "Anything as simple as just staying the course. Sometimes after a bad game, you come in and think you need to change stuff, but the reality of it is, I've been hitting the ball really well up until that point, so why would I think I need to start changing stuff? I needed to have a better game and I didn't, but that's over now.

"So the way I look at it is this week, same preparation, same mindset, different outcome. That's all."

Seahawks punter Jon Ryan called Walsh a "true professional" for how he took full responsibility for the misses -- which were from 44, 39 and 49 yards out -- and said the weather wasn't a factor.

Ryan thinks it may have been. He said the wind was blowing in "pretty bad" from the north end of CenturyLink Field, the more open portion of the stadium where Walsh missed his second and third kicks. Ryan said that wind -- which was officially listed at 11 mph -- also affected the punts for both teams and that it made for some of the trickier kicking conditions he's experienced over the past few seasons. Ryan also noted how all three of Walsh's attempts came from the middle of the field and that most kickers prefer the ball on either hash.

"He could have made a million excuses and he didn't make one," Ryan said. "He shouldered it all."

Asked how kickers overcome a game like the one Walsh had Sunday, Ryan said: "Thick skin and short memory. I think that's what a lot of the best kickers have."

As the Seahawks' longest-tenured player, Ryan has seen that first-hand a few times. He recalled how, in his second season with the team in 2009, Olindo Mare missed two field goals in a six-point loss to the Chicago Bears, then went on to make 30 in a row, breaking the franchise record. Ryan also noted how, more recently, Hauschka rebounded from a few bad games against Arizona, including a 6-6 tie last season in which he missed a chip shot in overtime that would have given Seattle a victory.

"I think Blair's the exact same type of guy," Ryan said. "He had a tough miss a couple years ago -- happened to be playing us -- and he came back and made big kicks from there. So I think just as a kicker, you just have to move on and forget."

And for Walsh, moving on doesn't mean changing anything.

"I'm staying confident, getting good reps in today and it'll be fun to play Thursday," he said.