Pete Carroll is hopeful that the poor air quality in Western Washington will improve in time for Sunday night's New England Patriots-Seattle Seahawks game at CenturyLink Field.

Smoke from wildfires around Washington state has blown into the Seattle area and compromised the air quality enough to move the Seahawks into their indoor facility Wednesday for their first practice of the week.

"We're in direct connection with [the NFL] and they are monitoring what's going on as we are as well," Carroll said. "Hopefully we get a good shift in the weather here by the weekend. It looks it could change tomorrow some and into the weekend, but we're very cognizant of it and we're working to figure it out."