Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Pete Carroll: "This Is A Championship Opportunity For Us"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, so.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Important week for us. We're back in the division. You know,
- 0:05Speaker 2: the championship opportunity for us really close to home. I
- 0:10Speaker 2: know the Rams are coming off a break and it
- 0:12Speaker 2: sounds like they're getting healthier and they're getting some star
- 0:15Speaker 2: players back, which is, you know, a real boost to
- 0:17Speaker 2: those guys.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Over the years, we've we've developed a great respect.
- 0:19Speaker 2: For Sean and what they do and how they operate,
- 0:24Speaker 2: the decisions that they make, the style of play and
- 0:26Speaker 2: all of that is you know, we've we've been right
- 0:29Speaker 2: up close and personal with it all and hold them
- 0:32Speaker 2: in high regard. And so we have to have a
- 0:34Speaker 2: great week. We've got to make sure that we can
- 0:36Speaker 2: play all phases and and not you know, not fall
- 0:40Speaker 2: off in any area of our ball and see if
- 0:42Speaker 2: we can.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Go down there and play a heck of a football game.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Real fired up.
- 0:46Speaker 2: But on the other side too, is uh that Jason
- 0:48Speaker 2: Myers gets recognized player of the week and on special teams.
- 0:54Speaker 2: There was a lot of great kickers that kicked it
- 0:55Speaker 2: on this weekend and a lot of great things that happened,
- 0:58Speaker 2: and he stood out obvious they picked him. So he
- 1:01Speaker 2: had a fantastic game. He's having a great season for us,
- 1:03Speaker 2: and we're really excited for that kind of recognition. Also,
- 1:07Speaker 2: uh Abe, Lucas comes back to practice finally, you guys,
- 1:10Speaker 2: that's for months when he's coming while he's finding on
- 1:13Speaker 2: practice this week and we'll find out what that means.
- 1:15Speaker 2: We'll just take it one day at a time and
- 1:17Speaker 2: see what happens. But it's great to get him back
- 1:19Speaker 2: out there. It's been a long haul and.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Anxious to see him go with Are.
- 1:25Speaker 1: You confident he's gotten to the other end of this
- 1:27Speaker 1: finally that it started to make a turn.
- 1:29Speaker 2: And no, no, we just we just made it to
- 1:32Speaker 2: the time where he can come to practice, you.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Know, So I don't know that yet.
- 1:36Speaker 2: As far as he can't rehab anymore to get ready,
- 1:39Speaker 2: he's ready to go, and we've we've been very careful
- 1:41Speaker 2: to do that properly and take our time. But we
- 1:44Speaker 2: need to see how the rigors of the practice actually
- 1:46Speaker 2: you know, uh figures into it all and see how
- 1:48Speaker 2: he bounces back.
- 1:49Speaker 3: This is kind of it.
- 1:49Speaker 2: It's been kind of a chronic thing that so you've
- 1:51Speaker 2: got to make sure that you you've left it in
- 1:53Speaker 2: the past.
- 1:53Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
- 1:54Speaker 4: Is what you've gotten from both Stone and Jason Peters
- 1:57Speaker 4: make it a little easier to be cautious with this
- 1:59Speaker 4: and take help.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Sure it does, Yeah it does.
- 2:01Speaker 2: We're not We're not panicked by having to throw him
- 2:04Speaker 2: back out there, and so we can really, like we
- 2:07Speaker 2: would hope do it anyway, but make really good, clear
- 2:10Speaker 2: decisions and taking care of him so that we can
- 2:12Speaker 2: maximize his return once he gets there.
- 2:15Speaker 1: He saw Kenny back come back last week, but then
- 2:17Speaker 1: not be active on game day. How do you how
- 2:18Speaker 1: do you kind of sort that out?
- 2:19Speaker 2: I guess with him right now, he's ready to go,
- 2:22Speaker 2: but you know, nobody's given him an opening, you know,
- 2:24Speaker 2: so he's ready to jump on it. So we're really
- 2:27Speaker 2: he had a really good week. He looked really fast
- 2:29Speaker 2: and tuned in and all of that. And he'll get
- 2:33Speaker 2: a lot of work again this week, you know, so
- 2:34Speaker 2: we're getting him ready to play. Just the opportunity hasn't
- 2:38Speaker 2: hasn't come to it yet.
- 2:40Speaker 4: On a related note, what's DJ Dallas given you guys
- 2:43Speaker 4: special teams in the return game? Everything he's doing this year?
- 2:45Speaker 2: One of really one of my favorite guys to talk about.
- 2:47Speaker 3: He has been such a.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Such an important part of our team, our makeup and
- 2:52Speaker 2: the mentality and all and he's earned every bit of it,
- 2:55Speaker 2: you know, all the way back, you know, t when
- 2:57Speaker 2: he first got here. He's just grown into a mature leader.
- 3:01Speaker 2: He's one of the real tough guys in our program.
- 3:03Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of guys.
- 3:04Speaker 2: We have found it really hard to play last week,
- 3:06Speaker 2: and he never even doubted that he was gonna play.
- 3:09Speaker 2: He had injured, he had some stuff wrong and it
- 3:11Speaker 2: showed up and all that, but he just found a
- 3:13Speaker 2: way to put it in a place where he could
- 3:15Speaker 2: he could function and he played well.
- 3:16Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I made.
- 3:18Speaker 2: The point during the week. You know that there's a
- 3:20Speaker 2: lot of opinion that he can't play, but let's just watch,
- 3:22Speaker 2: let's see what We'll watch what DJ does just to
- 3:24Speaker 2: show the other guys, you know what, what you're capable of.
- 3:27Speaker 2: And and so he's a fantastic leader for us in
- 3:31Speaker 2: all of the right ways.
- 3:34Speaker 1: And Julian Love obviously is one of the biggest signs
- 3:37Speaker 1: you guys had the off season. Can you talk a
- 3:39Speaker 1: little bit about maybe his his role and how it
- 3:42Speaker 1: changed a little bit when Jamal came back and what
- 3:44Speaker 1: he kind of provide for the guys.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's a very stable football player for us.
- 3:49Speaker 2: He's really bright, he's really accountable. He can do everything
- 3:53Speaker 2: that we ask the safety position, and then the special teams.
- 3:56Speaker 2: You know, he played like I like to go back.
- 3:58Speaker 3: He played like two hundred something.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Snaps of special teams for the Giants a year ago.
- 4:01Speaker 2: He's in it, you know too, in any phase that
- 4:04Speaker 2: we need him. Complete player, he's a good athlete. He
- 4:08Speaker 2: makes plays, he's around the football, makes the tackles, you know,
- 4:11Speaker 2: and he gives us tremendous versatility. So we you know,
- 4:15Speaker 2: we were able to do the things that we're doing,
- 4:16Speaker 2: and we continue to mix and match with our guys
- 4:19Speaker 2: to get the.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Most out of them.
- 4:21Speaker 2: And he's a really, really a perfect asset as he
- 4:24Speaker 2: came to us.
- 4:25Speaker 3: He can do everything we need him to do.
- 4:27Speaker 4: How much does the first game against the Rams play
- 4:29Speaker 4: into your preparation.
- 4:30Speaker 3: For this week or well, we got to learn from it,
- 4:32Speaker 3: you know.
- 4:32Speaker 2: We we were out ahead of that one and didn't
- 4:34Speaker 2: hold it, you know, And so what we do know
- 4:37Speaker 2: is how good Matthew Stafford is and how capable he is.
- 4:41Speaker 3: It really lightened it up. He's a great quarterback.
- 4:43Speaker 2: He's one of the top guys in the NFL. He
- 4:47Speaker 2: throws guys open as well as anybody in the league.
- 4:49Speaker 2: And he's got all of it, you know, so he
- 4:52Speaker 2: sees everything. You know. It's it's a real real challenge
- 4:55Speaker 2: to play against the guy of this this stature. So
- 4:59Speaker 2: you know, with that event anything, we were wary of
- 5:01Speaker 2: what he can pull off, no matter what the situation
- 5:03Speaker 2: in the game is.
- 5:04Speaker 3: So we're very respectful.
- 5:05Speaker 4: You see teams twice here in the division kind of
- 5:07Speaker 4: spread out like this, Do you use it as sort
- 5:09Speaker 4: of a benchmark of where you've progressed or the team's
- 5:12Speaker 4: changed too.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Much to I don't know, you know, I don't. I
- 5:15Speaker 3: don't do that.
- 5:16Speaker 2: It's just this game, you know, And it is in
- 5:19Speaker 2: the schedule right now. Who they got playing, who we
- 5:21Speaker 2: got playing. So it's it's not maybe you look back
- 5:24Speaker 2: at it that way and see what happens kind of thing,
- 5:26Speaker 2: but not going in for sure.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Was a little bit was a little bit of not known.
- 5:30Speaker 5: It's a lot that first game.
- 5:32Speaker 4: How has obviously his season progression, he looked at film
- 5:35Speaker 4: and then how they sort of work things with him
- 5:37Speaker 4: and Cooper since.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Yeah, he he just hit took the lead by storm,
- 5:42Speaker 2: you know, right off the bat and and uh, he's
- 5:44Speaker 2: got sixty something catches already.
- 5:45Speaker 3: You know, he's doing great.
- 5:48Speaker 2: He's capable in a lot of different aspects. He's good
- 5:50Speaker 2: down the field, making plays when the ball's up. He's
- 5:53Speaker 2: a good inside route runner and getting open come through
- 5:56Speaker 2: on third down type of guy.
- 5:58Speaker 3: Tough blocks for them.
- 6:02Speaker 2: And so he's he does all of the things that
- 6:04Speaker 2: Cooper has done.
- 6:05Speaker 3: Really in a role.
- 6:06Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that Cooper would have any
- 6:07Speaker 2: more catches than that if he was, you know, had
- 6:09Speaker 2: been healthy all this time. When when Cooper comes back
- 6:14Speaker 2: as he has, I know, they're just figuring it out
- 6:18Speaker 2: because they've got two great guys to go to and
- 6:20Speaker 2: to two Outwell's having his best year ever. You know,
- 6:23Speaker 2: he's off to a great start, so their their receiving
- 6:26Speaker 2: corps is top notch. I have the quality of two
- 6:31Speaker 2: guys like that that are so similar that they can
- 6:33Speaker 2: do everything. Because remember Cooper was a fantastic blocker in
- 6:36Speaker 2: his early years and he can still do all of
- 6:39Speaker 2: that and he still does it. It's just gives you
- 6:42Speaker 2: such flexibility, which really you know, gallic Sean's great at
- 6:45Speaker 2: you know, to have those kinds of guys traits. He
- 6:47Speaker 2: always uses guys really well and maxes out, you know,
- 6:50Speaker 2: their strengths.
- 6:50Speaker 3: And also.
- 6:52Speaker 2: They're off and running and we'll see what happens. You know.
- 6:54Speaker 2: It's our hands full of all kinds of problems here
- 6:58Speaker 2: with these guys.
- 6:58Speaker 4: So we haven't heard much about your long snapper, which
- 7:02Speaker 4: is probably a good thing.
- 7:03Speaker 1: But but obviously he's he's must have must be doing
- 7:05Speaker 1: pretty well.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris is doing good. He's doing a good job
- 7:10Speaker 2: and obviously came through. We made a big celebration of
- 7:13Speaker 2: that and Mike as they figured into what happened last weekend.
- 7:17Speaker 3: But as they've been doing all year, they're working together
- 7:19Speaker 3: really well. So we're very fortunate. He's going good's.
- 7:25Speaker 2: He's running today. I think he's going today practice. He
- 7:27Speaker 2: was good in the walk through, so he was sore.
- 7:29Speaker 2: He's a little bit sore still from the weekend, but
- 7:32Speaker 2: they think they've got it figured out what it is
- 7:34Speaker 2: and it's nothing to hold him back as long as
- 7:36Speaker 2: he can make it through the week.
- 7:37Speaker 3: So we'll see how the week goes.
- 7:39Speaker 5: What did you see in Chrystal that said it's his
- 7:42Speaker 5: job since spring without ever playing game?
- 7:45Speaker 2: You know, really, I didn't I wasn't in on that
- 7:48Speaker 2: one as much as you know, we cleared him. He
- 7:50Speaker 2: looked good, you know in the snaps and stuff like that.
- 7:52Speaker 2: I didn't know much about him. Especial teams guys and
- 7:54Speaker 2: Johnny and those guys were all on him, really were
- 7:56Speaker 2: convinced that he would have a great chance to do it,
- 7:58Speaker 2: you know. And uh, we've just watched him since the
- 8:02Speaker 2: day he's got here, and he's been absolutely consistent and
- 8:05Speaker 2: accountable throughout. So you know, he's been a great kid
- 8:08Speaker 2: for us.
- 8:09Speaker 5: You see that as something of a dice roll, because.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was banking on what our guys had
- 8:16Speaker 2: had done in their homework that they put put forth,
- 8:19Speaker 2: you know, and they've had him figured out, and they
- 8:20Speaker 2: were exactly on point with him.
- 8:24Speaker 1: I think Kobe Bryant's eligible to come back. You know,
- 8:26Speaker 1: where's he kind of at its process.
- 8:29Speaker 3: He is ready, he's ready to go.
- 8:31Speaker 2: We're just not ready to pull it yet because everybody's
- 8:33Speaker 2: kind of hanging in there, so we got to wait
- 8:36Speaker 2: a little bit. And you know, it's it's really weak
- 8:37Speaker 2: to week for us right now. But he is capable.
- 8:39Speaker 2: He's really he's really chomping at the bit to get
- 8:42Speaker 2: out there he wants to go. Your rush defense was
- 8:44Speaker 2: top five, top six in the league a few weeks ago.
- 8:46Speaker 1: It's taken a dip since then.
- 8:48Speaker 5: What has been the biggest difference I think between the kind.
- 8:52Speaker 3: Of a peak Cleveland in Baltimore.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, as a those two teams ran the
- 8:56Speaker 2: ball like crazy, is that we came right back this
- 8:59Speaker 2: week alright, but got right back to our numbers again.
- 9:02Speaker 3: So let's see what happens.
- 9:03Speaker 2: You know that, Let's hope we can leave those two
- 9:05Speaker 2: games and then you know, in the rear mirror.
- 9:09Speaker 5: Are you are you feeling any better about Oh?
- 9:11Speaker 3: Yeah, oh oh, I'm sorry.
- 9:14Speaker 1: They're down on defense. How you feeling about it?
- 9:19Speaker 3: We can do better?
- 9:20Speaker 2: There's a we need a couple more wins, uh a
- 9:23Speaker 2: day and and uh it just like we need on offense,
- 9:25Speaker 2: need a cup more a day. And so it's we're
- 9:27Speaker 2: not asking for a you know, a wholesale change of stuff.
- 9:30Speaker 2: We just gotta make sure that we finish our opportunities
- 9:32Speaker 2: and cash in on them and don't screw them up.
- 9:34Speaker 2: I give it a penalty or whatever, you know, and
- 9:35Speaker 2: give stuff away. Now I'm not satisfied before we are.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Now we're we we're just we're kind of moving in
- 9:41Speaker 2: the right direction. The nudge in the it's kind of
- 9:44Speaker 2: a nudge in the right direction. You can feel it, Yeah,
- 9:46Speaker 2: I can feel on both sides.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Pete spent a couple of weeks since you lost China
- 9:50Speaker 1: now in broad in Leonard, do you do you have
- 9:52Speaker 1: a good sense for now as to what you guys
- 9:53Speaker 1: are gonna do to make those adaptations to up run
- 9:57Speaker 1: handle all the moving parts.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Yeah, we're feeling, you know, feeling pretty good about now
- 10:02Speaker 2: knowing Leonard and having a sense for him a couple
- 10:04Speaker 2: of weeks into it.
- 10:06Speaker 3: I love what he what he brings us.
- 10:08Speaker 2: We're, like I said from the start, we're gonna miss Chenna.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Chenna was a terrific part of this defense and his
- 10:13Speaker 2: toughness and his play making and his come through and
- 10:17Speaker 2: consistency and.
- 10:18Speaker 3: All of that.
- 10:18Speaker 2: But fortunately we're able to do some things. Our guys
- 10:22Speaker 2: are elevating, the young guys are coming up. We're going
- 10:25Speaker 2: to watch Dre, you know, take some of those snaps too,
- 10:27Speaker 2: which he's very comfortable doing. He looks good doing so.
- 10:32Speaker 2: And getting Frank also helped us, you know. So with
- 10:34Speaker 2: the combination of guys that we have coming and the
- 10:36Speaker 2: growth and the young guys gives us you know, we're okay,
- 10:39Speaker 2: but we're not. We didn't replace China. He's been too
- 10:43Speaker 2: too instrumental to us in unique ways.
- 10:45Speaker 3: We have kind of thought so far his contributions, he's
- 10:48Speaker 3: doing well.
- 10:48Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's he's uh, he's part of it
- 10:51Speaker 2: and we're looking forward to make plays. We know that
- 10:52Speaker 2: he's got the sense and the awareness and he sees
- 10:54Speaker 2: things really well and and diagnosis plays well as an
- 10:57Speaker 2: experienced guy does, and that's a benefit for the young guys.
- 11:00Speaker 3: You know, he sees screens and.
- 11:02Speaker 2: Players that are going away, and he can tell when
- 11:03Speaker 2: counters and stuff are coming. And he he's just he's
- 11:06Speaker 2: helping out those other guys learn as he's doing his part.
- 11:10Speaker 1: He looks quite a bit leaner than he was when
- 11:12Speaker 1: you guys had him the first time.
- 11:13Speaker 2: That he's two seventy at one time, you know, so
- 11:15Speaker 2: he's in the in the forties, you know now, so
- 11:18Speaker 2: he's quite a bit different athletically in that regard.
- 11:22Speaker 3: But he looks good.
- 11:23Speaker 2: He's moving well, and he's really strong and he's always
- 11:25Speaker 2: had the length and now he is savvy, you know,
- 11:29Speaker 2: from all of the experience that he's gained is really
- 11:31Speaker 2: an asset for him.
- 11:33Speaker 1: He Aaron Donald from five sacks Rams. What can you
- 11:36Speaker 1: say about his consistency.
- 11:41Speaker 2: He's an amazing player. He's got unbelievable power because he's
- 11:46Speaker 2: not the biggest guy. You know, he's not. He's not
- 11:48Speaker 2: the biggest, tallest, all that kind of pretty stuff. He's
- 11:51Speaker 2: just more explosive and dynamic than a lot of them,
- 11:55Speaker 2: than most players, and it shows up whether he's getting
- 11:58Speaker 2: doubled or whether he's singled up and he's in stunts
- 12:01Speaker 2: or one on one pass.
- 12:02Speaker 3: He can do everything. He can do everything, So he's
- 12:05Speaker 3: a real problem, and it's just.
- 12:06Speaker 2: That you don't know when he's gonna you know, all
- 12:08Speaker 2: of a sudden, he's in the backfield.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Before you know it. He just finds a way.
- 12:11Speaker 2: And I'm sure, I'm sure he has great sense and
- 12:14Speaker 2: awareness that he can take advantage of all kinds of
- 12:17Speaker 2: cues that come his way.
- 12:18Speaker 3: So he's very difficult player to play against.
- 12:22Speaker 5: How have the multiple tight ends really helped your offense
- 12:25Speaker 5: and really put defenses in matchup problems.
- 12:28Speaker 2: I think it's a nice part of our offense. We
- 12:30Speaker 2: really have confidence in our guys and we have. They're different,
- 12:34Speaker 2: you know, and again, as always, we like the changes
- 12:37Speaker 2: that you get from the different guys going in. Brady
- 12:40Speaker 2: Russell's added too in his way with being able to
- 12:43Speaker 2: play spect a lot of special teams from that position.
- 12:45Speaker 2: He's done a nice job to compliment as well as
- 12:48Speaker 2: and of the other things he's starting to develop as
- 12:50Speaker 2: part of his role. So but it's a good spot
- 12:52Speaker 2: for us, and we like the versatility of it, and
- 12:55Speaker 2: you know, we'll always continue to have it in the scheme.
- 12:57Speaker 5: You ever going to give one of them a ball
- 12:58Speaker 5: when you line them up.
- 12:59Speaker 3: In You never know why I ever tell you that.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Tyler is a few catches in twenty seven yards with
- 13:08Speaker 4: him be a number two all time behind Steve Large
- 13:10Speaker 4: and franchise history. Just what can you say about just
- 13:13Speaker 4: the consistency of his play over the years you've been here.
- 13:16Speaker 3: What a fun guy to talk about. He's an amazing.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Championship player in at the top of his game. You know,
- 13:26Speaker 2: with all that he brings, all of the background, the experience,
- 13:29Speaker 2: the play making, the style, you know, he's just got
- 13:31Speaker 2: a way about him that has just separated him. I
- 13:34Speaker 2: I don't and I think we kind of always say
- 13:35Speaker 2: that he doesn't get recognized maybe on the on the
- 13:37Speaker 2: larger scale of things, but we've seen this guy and
- 13:40Speaker 2: he's an incredible competitor, stability, durability, everything, you know, and
- 13:49Speaker 2: such a good guy. And he's a really good realtor.
- 13:53Speaker 2: I don't know that, but I think he would be.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Uh So, I mean, he's just he's just been so
- 14:00Speaker 2: impress him. The thing that's it's so fun about Tyler's
- 14:03Speaker 2: when the play opportunity arises, he almost always finds the
- 14:06Speaker 2: way to make the play in the most unusual positions
- 14:09Speaker 2: and makes it look easy. You know, he has this
- 14:12Speaker 2: grace about him, gracefulness about him that you know, he's
- 14:17Speaker 2: just unique and special in all of that. So he's
- 14:19Speaker 2: really one of the Alzheimer's.
- 14:21Speaker 5: He doesn't see himself playing forever, of course, could you
- 14:24Speaker 5: see because of his longevity that he could.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Most guys don't. General you're talking to Jason Peters or
- 14:31Speaker 2: something like that. Well, I'm not sure how to address that,
- 14:35Speaker 2: but you know, none of us can play forever. You
- 14:38Speaker 2: know what we'd like to, but you don't get to it.
- 14:41Speaker 5: You obviously see no signs of him slowing down.
- 14:43Speaker 3: No, I think he's doing great. He's doing great.
- 14:46Speaker 2: He'll know, he'll he'll he'll tell us when the time
- 14:48Speaker 2: is right.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Anything else okay,