Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Pete Carroll: "Tonight Was Nothing But Fun"

Transcript

Pete Carroll: "Tonight Was Nothing But Fun" · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: A small crowd. It must be late.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Well, tonight was. It was nothing but fun. We had
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: a great time. It was hard getting started. You could
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: tell that this was the first time we tackled Anybody's
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: why we used the preseason games. And then we needed
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: the first quarter to kind of just whatever, shake the
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: cobwebs or whatever, and the defense came back. And then
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: from the second quarter on they played great, played great
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: all night long, and then those young kids did a
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: beautiful job of playing the scheme and making the plays
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: we needed to make. I thought, all in all, it
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: was it was really a really strong win for us
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: because if we can build on all of the things
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: that happened, and the cool thing was that the young
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: guy's playing in the fourth quarter and playing well enough
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: to win the football game and shut them down and
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: defense and hold the football and all of that. I
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: thought Drew did really well tonight, did a really nice jobs.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: I believe the ball got tipped on the pick. He
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: had the right choice, the right he was reading the
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: right guy and all that and probably just got tipped
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: with the line of scrimmage. Other than that, he was
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: in command and had had a nice night. We din't
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: run the balls well as we went too early, but
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: it was the same thing, blocking and tackling.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: It just took us a while to get going.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: And again that's why, you know, we got to play
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: these games. So I didn't even there's so many names
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: to talk about, you know, you guys asked me.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: The question, but I was really excited about Holton. Holton
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: Heylors in the end of the game.
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Did what he needed to do and and finished up
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: found a way to make the plays and and uh,
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: I know, I know everybody's there hoot and tebow, you know,
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff, but it's old Baylor's
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: and he did a great job for us tonight to
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: finish the game.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: You have an update on game.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first thing that we heard is that there
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: was no findings, but he got to I think he
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: get can cussed. But there was no findings beyond that
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: at this point. So we got a real good report
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: the early one. I'm hoping that's conclusive, but that's what
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: we heard.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Did did it happen on the kickoff or do you know? Yeah,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: so you had a little bit and everything.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Do you guys make sure and tell Greg all the
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: things we already talked about we've been there. We've been
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: here about twenty minutes already, so you had a little
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: bit I'm assuming you're talking or yeah, yeah, they just
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: went to the max precautions and and uh the findings
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: were already really positive.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: To get to get a chance to you had, I
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: think thirty players not playing at night for you guys,
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: just the amount of guys you chose to sit out
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: one the thinking of that to to kind of manage
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: it the way you did with the injuries and then
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: the guys you just decided to.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: The the reason you know, I didn't say not anything
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: to you guys about it. I I was waiting, waiting
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: to see what happened and with the week and who
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: who did we need.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: And all that.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: There were some decisions on some guys that are in
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: competitive situations that hadn't played for us, han't shown for
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: us before. Evan Evan Brown has been playing with the
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: first group, but just needed to see him play and
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: wanted to see him go against.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: Uh oulu as well. Uh Phil, we need to fill
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: the play too.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Wanted to give Drew a little security in there with
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: some guys you know that he knew could could you
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: know guarantee that they make the blocks on the right
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: calls and stuff like that, just to get him started.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Well. Kobe, you know, is another guy we thought.
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: About not playing, but I felt like we needed to
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: our titands were banged up all the way going into
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: the game. They made it, but you know, there's so
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: we had decisions like that, and we held most of
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: the older guys. You know, basically Pete Cobe Bryant's pretty
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: new to playing safety.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: Still, you can't big hit obviously plays run stop.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: What'd you think him out there? He's he's doing really well.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: He's looked really apt for the position. He fits well,
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: he moves well, heads the quarterback really well, covers grounds
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: well back there, and he's got good decision making on
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: playing making opportunities.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: So, uh, I think it's going to be a good
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: spot for him. He's also going to be called on
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: to play.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: Corner for us if we need him, and he's got
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: Nickel and Dimi's plans. So he's like has told you
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: during the week here he's doing everything.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: Is Kate spending the night in the hospital.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: When you look at the run defense, neck to average
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: three point two a carry. I know that's a big
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: focus for you guys, even with you know, different guys
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: out there who might not be different.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, scheme scheme worked well and we were like
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: the way we played the choices that we've we've settled
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: in on, uh for the way we basically play the
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: calls worked out really well tonight. The guys were really
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: confident in him, and as we played more, we got
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: better and uh, they brought the scheme to life a
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: So it was it was a good night for first
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: on defense, A really good night.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, except for the start. We couldn't tackle anybody. You know,
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: it was terrible right off the bat.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: You said that you wanted Drew to play a lot. Appreciason,
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: what what are you hoping to?
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: See? What he showed up? I want him to be
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: ready to start games.
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be ready to play football games and
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: win championship games for us, and so he needs to
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: play to do that.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: You know, he sat around all last year.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: So this formula of him getting three quarters is that
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: that's it's just great for him just to be out
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: there playing football, and so he's gonna play a lot.
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: You probably can't tell to his film, notice run Fits being.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: As such an emphasis. Did you notice any difference? We
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: were better?
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we had we hit a couple of
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: pressures and then the balls just popped into the secondaryuns.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: We made a couple of errors, uh where that happened.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: But once we got going, uh, we were really clean.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: I I thought that Patrick Ocannam made a bunch of
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: plays tonight. Devin Bush made some real nice tackles too
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: that the backers didn't did a good job for us.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Did you notice Kurban being a little numbers.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was out there banging away. He had a
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: couple of good plays on perimeterive plays. He was captain
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: tonight in this game, you know, just because just because
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: and he didn't he got back to playing football. I mean,
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: that's it's it's just heartwarming to see that the story
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: because if you, if you ever would have seen how
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: hard he had to work to get back and how
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: much he overcame.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: So few people do what he did, and.
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: He just never ever waivered that he was going to
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: get back and he's playing, he's the captain his first
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: game back, and then he was out there making tackles,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: you know, and kicking game too.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: So he did a great job tonight.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: Was not the fastest receiver, but he seems to get.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: Open a lot. So he asked me a question there,
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: how does bo get open?
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: He's really good. He's a good player, you know. He
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: he just continues to find ways. I was really creative
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: and athletic. I mean, look at the great playmate on
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: the punt team. You know it was that was a
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: perfect play there. So he he just he's doing good stuff.
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: The escrits there on the kickoff, and it's what's his
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: status for you?
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: He he twisted his knee, and U, that's a cardilige thing,
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: he said, we don't know how bad of this yet.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: He's not He's getting around on it.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: So it's it's not horrible, you know, it's not It
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: wasn't catastrophic, but we gotta figure out how how severe
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: it is. Why didn't Cody tops.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Him play Yuh?
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: He came up with yesterday in practice he felt his
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: groin was was tight and and we just felt like,
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: let's hold him out, you know, and he what, it
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't clear that he could go out there and take
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: off and play through the night.
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: So he just said, let's let's rest him. Really wanted
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: him to play tonight. He can do a couple of
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: physical runs.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he looked really physical. Our guys on the
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: sidelines were going crazy for him. Uh, he has had
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: a great, great start with us, and uh, you know,
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: looking at him and in our off season work and
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: then in camp already, it's really it's not a surprise
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: We just needed to see him go do it and
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: he was. He was knocking his out there. It was
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: really tough.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: And Cameron Youll didn't play.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: What's going on with that? He has a calf stream
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: he got a couple days ago.
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: Des kind of made some strides the last few days
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: for you guys, he had been the hit that drew penalty,
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: But like.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Get did you see the extra little? Did he do
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: the extra little at the end he did? Yeah, Okay,
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: that's just a but yeah, he's doing really well. And
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: then uh, when you know, give him another the month
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: that we.
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: Need right here, he's going to be in the midst
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: of in rotations, I think because he's just too physical,
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: runs too fast, got a great head on his.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Shoulders about playing defense football and and we really like
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: the heck out of him.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: So it's just a matter of time, just you know,
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: honing his his game down and so I don't and
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: special teams as well. You know, he's gonna have a
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: big factor on special teams. He's got one of the
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: really really good attitudes about playing defense. Now.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: You love his heart and what he wants to do
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: and how he wants to play it. He's really one
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: of the fellows.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: Your team's put with high energy and so how important
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: was it for the rookies to continue today.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: To come with that? It was really important?
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, it just it just makes my
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: heart sore, man to see them go out there and
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: have that much fun playing and and see the finish
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: come to them, you know, And we got the opportunity
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: to finish a game and they find their way to it.
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: We're playing good defense, we're playing good offense. Was killing
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: the clock, you know, we're doing all the right stuff.
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: And the guys in the silence were going crazy for him.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: You know, That's what I hope they would feel. I mean,
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: if I could, if I could tell you what I
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: hope this game could be like, it was that.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Was the game. I don't care how we start.
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: I want to see what would happen when we finished,
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: and we finished with all of the fun.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: And there I know, like.
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: Okata said, he couldn't believe how much fun football was
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: for him, you know, on this night, and we talked
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: go a little further. We dedicate this first game to
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: the young guys, you know, and we make a big
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: deal about that in the meetings and during the week,
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: and you know, veteran guys talked to them and told
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: them about their first game and you know, gave them
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: a little bit of advice and we had just had fun.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: Made him stand up and we're talking to them, you know,
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: all the Rooks and all because we wanted to make
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: it memorable. They forget in this first game. They'll know
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: this first game forever. And that's all I could ask
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: for anything else. Yep.