SEATTLE -- This is not something you hear from a team that just played its first game after winning the . "Everything is finally clicking. Everybody is on the same page." Now they're clicking? Apparently so for the who, in their season-opening on Thursday night presented a scary po sibility: that they are better, particularly more dynamic offensively, than they were when they made their championship run and this past February. The memories of that revolve almost exclusively around the defense and how it befuddled the ' explosive offense. And that defense, which was able to keep most of the critical pieces in place this offseason, was expectedly terrific again Thursday, bottling up to 5.7 yards Wandy Peralta Jersey per attempt and to 2.8 yards per rush. The had just 255 yards of offense and Rodgers did not throw a pa s to 's side of the field all night. Not one, e sentially submitting to play the game on only half a field. The warp-speed offense that Green Bay promised did not rattle the , who are happy to stay in their base defense as much as opponents want, because they are so good at it. The have now outscored their last two opponents -- who boast two of the league's best offenses -- 79-24. If there is good news for the on a miserable night -- and there isn't much, considering that right tackle Gaylord Perry Jersey 's knee injury is a huge concern, and isn't a good start to the campaign -- it is that they are unlikely to face an opponent this tough, this multidimensional, again in the regular season.But it was the speaker of that ominous-to-opponents quote, the ' everyman , who embodied what might give the an edge that previous champions trying to repeat did not have. The have all of their best players available right now, something they did not have last year when Harvin was never fully healthy. He is now, and the ' expanded playbook was on full display. Harvin rushed for 41 yards, caught 59 yards of pa ses and returned kicks for 60 yards. Harvin takes pride in playing so many positions, but the want to use him in so many ways that he admits he sometimes gets fuzzy about his playbook, nece sitating quizzes from coaches to make sure he is on top of his game. Harvin pointed to what the call the "jet sweep" as his preferred play Thursday, because Seattle had little trouble getting to the edge on the , allowing Harvin to take off. "I think this is what everybody envisoned," Harvin said after he was asked if this is what he envisoned when he first came to Seattle. "We all keep saying , 'Sky's Dereck Rodriguez Jersey the limit,' especially having such a dangerous defense that can get us the ball on the short side of the field. Last year, we had a couple guys in and out. I was in and out. Everybody being here all at once, we all grinded together." It left the searching for answers and in some cases almost searching for words."That's just not the defense that we can play," linebacker said. "It wasn't it. That wasn't it. We got to figure out what we did because that is not acceptable." The are a rare defending champion, still very young and remarkably intact. Opponents did not pluck their coordinators and were unable to cherry pick much of their top talent. Instead, Jandel Gustave Jersey in getting added weaponry like Harvin back onto the field, the may be fortified. Harvin, who mi sed 15 games with a hip injury last season, had more receptions in the ' first three offensive plays of the season (two) than he did in the entire 2013 regular season (one). Because he did not play in most of the second half of the 2012 season in Minnesota, this is e sentially the first time Harvin has practiced and played regularly in two years. He said he has not been this healthy since college. "Gosh, he's such a good football player," gushed when asked about how to use Harvin. "We've got a million thoughts. Ideas aren't hard. He's a wonderful mix of player." Jeff Samardzija Jersey Perhaps we should have gue sed a performance like this was in the offing when Carroll, little more than 24 hours before kickoff, popped up at a corporate event, making a pitch for the Bose headphones coaches will wear this season. In his sweatshirt and khakis, Carroll was as loose as ever, joking about how he likes to listen to music and telling an executive who had marveled at how difficult it must be to make critical decisions with deafening crowd noise in your ear: "It ain't that big a deal."Not when you have his options, it's not. And the options are only getting greater. "Absolutely," Harvin said. "If we already peaked in this game, we're going to be in trouble. I hope we can take this game and build on it."Follow Judy Battista on Twitter .