ASHBURN, Va. — Washington Redskins safety Ryan Clark apparently takes issue with reports that his team was lax after Monday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

Ironically, Clark himself was aggravated by the lack of effort in a 45-14 loss to the visiting New York Giants in Week 4, but now is unhappy the media is portraying the Redskins as not being upset enough after losing 27-17 to reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle.

“There’s been a big deal made in the media about people behaving a certain way after our loss,” said Clark, a 13-year veteran who started two Super Bowls and won one with Pittsburgh. “Y’all have no idea how somebody’s supposed to behave after a loss. If I’m pissed off and don’t want to talk to you, that does show I’m upset about a loss? You’d write that I’m a sore loser, that after wins Ryan Clark’s willing to talk to the media, (but) today he didn’t.

“Whether they laugh or joke (after losses) doesn’t matter. … What says whether or not you’re a professional, whether or not you care, is the way you come and work the next week. It’s about how you prepare on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday for the next Sunday’s game.”

Clark added that the Redskins weren’t as angry or downcast after the loss to the Seahawks as they were after the blowout by the Giants because they had given a much better effort.

“You think guys didn’t want to tackle (Seahawks quarterback) Russell Wilson that we wanted to let him run around and make it a circus? No,” Clark said. “He’s a good player. He made plays. The guys put everything into that (game) and that’s the positive you took from it. Guys wanted to win. … Nobody hurts more when we lose than we do.

“The difference (from Pittsburgh) is the entire culture of the community. People took off work in Pittsburgh when we lost. It wasn’t necessarily that the locker room was different about losing, the whole city was. It wasn’t supposed to happen there so when it did, it was such a letdown. (In Washington) not everybody believes because we haven’t made them believe. Going into Monday night, I’m not sure many Washington Redskins thought we were going to win.”

Reserve defensive end Kedric Golston is in his ninth season with the Redskins. Washington finished last in the NFC East in six of the previous eight. Golston also took issue with the media.

“Sometimes things get taken out of context,” Golston said. “I was in the locker room. I didn’t see anything out of line. I did see guys that were upset. By the same token, if guys went out there and laid it on the line, do you want them to walk around with their heads down?

“There is frustration. We’re 1-4. Nobody’s happy. Everybody react differently to losing. You think about what you could have done better. This is our job. This is our profession. Would it have been better if people were throwing their helmets up against lockers and turning over Gatorade coolers? We’re professionals. Judge us by what we do the field.”

Quarterback Kirk Cousins, who has been starting in place of injured Robert Griffin III, said his approach to leadership doesn’t change even though the Redskins are on a three-game losing streak, a stance with which Clark agreed.

“It’d be cool for me to say (since) we’re 1-4 the sense of urgency is heightened, but that’s dumb,” Clark said. “If you don’t go out every week willing to give 100 percent of your mind and body to win a football game, if it takes losing to make you feel that way, you were a loser before you got out there. I’m preparing the same way, doing the the things that I do every week to prepare to win, but we have to do ’em better because clearly we haven’t been good.”

As for Jay Gruden, the first-year coach said the Redskins do need to turn up the intensity and did say the players who were questioned for laughing in the postgame locker room “played their (butts) off” against the Seahawks.

“Our sense of urgency has to be code one right now,” he said. “We’re 1-4, and we don’t have a lot of margin for error. … We have to get this thing turned around, and it starts on the road against Arizona. … After that game, I know that everybody was dejected. Everybody was sick after (we) lost. They put a lot of effort into that game. We thought we should win that game and we didn’t, so guys were upset.”

NOTES: The Redskins waived CB Richard Crawford and S Akeem Davis on Wednesday and replaced them by promoting DE Jackson Jeffcoat from the practice squad and signing rookie free agent CB Greg Ducre off San Diego’s practice squad. … Among those who did not practice Monday were ILB Perry Riley (MCL), S Ryan Clark (ankle), OLB Brian Orakpo (ankle), OT Trent Williams (knee) and CB Tracy Porter (hamstring). TE Jordan Reed was limited in practice. QB Robert Griffin III remains sidelined with dislocated left ankle but returned to stretching with team Wednesday.