Denver Broncos head coach John Fox continues to stress that a team not looking out the windshield is asking for a crash.

While pushing the conversation as far away from the crash-and-burn result that was February’s Super Bowl for the Broncos, Fox and Denver are headed to CenturyLink Field in Seattle for another showdown with the hard-hitting Seahawks.

“I can’t speak for them but I know we have 17 new starters, nine on defense, five on offense (three) on special teams. Their team is different, our team is different; it’s a new season,” Fox said. “We’re not spending time looking in the rearview mirror. We’re looking out the windshield and we have a huge test coming up Sunday.”

The Broncos have been reminded this week about Seattle controlling the game and rendering the NFL’s highest-scoring offense impotent, with just eight points. Fox and Company are very aware of how difficult it can be to win at Seattle, where coach Pete Carroll is 16-1 in his past 17 home games.

“It becomes more of just a non-verbal game and you can’t really sit there and have a conversation,” offensive coordinator Adam Gase said. “I was in San Francisco for a year and went up there and I think they were probably at 7-9 or 8-8 (that season) and it didn’t matter. That place has always been loud and that’s how you have to communicate.”

Fox said he has turned up the practice tracks a little bit louder this week but didn’t care to revisit the game-opening botched snap that quarterback Peyton Manning intimated was caused by noise from the fabled “12s” Seattle’s fan base collective recognized as the 12th Man.

“It is loud,” said wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who caught the only touchdown of the Super Bowl defeat for the Broncos. “I think it’s one of the loudest in the league and I think our main focus is getting back to the line, going fast, getting our eyes on Peyton and seeing what the signals are and going from there. The main thing is, we’ve been doing the signals awhile, so I think it will help and keep us going fast.”

There is hype outside the team facility pumping up the rematch as, at the very least, the biggest game of Week 3. Linebacker Von Miller, who missed the Super Bowl loss with a knee injury, said players are intentionally avoiding ESPN and any outlet that might be drumming up an early regular season game as anything more than one of 16 on Denver’s schedule.

In addition to Miller’s return to health, the Broncos believe they should be better equipped to slow down the Seahawks with newcomers including defensive end DeMarcus Ware, cornerback Aqib Talib and safety T.J. Ward. Ward in particular increases the toughness of a defense that was pushed around by a more physical Seattle team in February.

“It’s Week 3. That’s all it is,” said Ward. “We have a tough opponent. They didn’t bring me in just for one team. It’s for every game—playoffs and beyond.”

Ware, who was home during the postseason in January and February and is in his first NFL season with a team other than Dallas, said he watched the Super Bowl game film during OTAs and came away disheartened. He senses the energy and intensity that typically accompany games with added meaning.

“I know it’s a big week. Every game that you play, especially being 2-0, is going to be a bigger game. For me, it’s always about establishing the identity of your team,” Ware said. “Week in and week out you’ve got to prove that. Last week, we didn’t play exactly how we wanted to play, and there are a lot of places we need to improve. We know that we corrected them in practice this week and going out and proving to ourselves that we can be an even better team than we were last week.”