Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Pete Carroll: "We Can Find Positives To Build On"
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Well, as often you ask, you know, what did see
- 0:04Speaker 1: in the video show, we found some things that on
- 0:10Speaker 1: the day of frustration, we could find posites to build
- 0:13Speaker 1: on and to work towards improving. Third down was just
- 0:17Speaker 1: a disaster force in both sides of the ball. And
- 0:21Speaker 1: that's that's really was the story of the day, because
- 0:23Speaker 1: we ran the ball right on offense and ran the
- 0:25Speaker 1: ball and stopped the run on defense as well, and
- 0:28Speaker 1: someone came down to it we had to get off
- 0:30Speaker 1: the field and we didn't do it. So that's it. Really,
- 0:33Speaker 1: it just spells the whole issue of what happened in
- 0:35Speaker 1: the second half. Two we didn't make first down, they
- 0:38Speaker 1: moved the ball, we didn't make first down, then they
- 0:40Speaker 1: moved the ball again, and that was the game started
- 0:43Speaker 1: to change right there. So it really disappointed that we
- 0:46Speaker 1: didn't come back in the second half and play better.
- 0:48Speaker 1: You know, you know, I thought we were okay shape
- 0:51Speaker 1: at the end of the first half for just getting started,
- 0:54Speaker 1: and I wanted to build on that in the third quarter,
- 0:56Speaker 1: and we weren't able to get that done. So it's
- 0:58Speaker 1: a very difficult day to take for the old and
- 1:00Speaker 1: everybody's expectations, nobody's were higher than ours, but everybody's expectations
- 1:06Speaker 1: dashed a bit a bit to get this thing started.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Defense, that was obviously a big emphasis in this offseason
- 1:13Speaker 2: is that despite a loss time, you can kind of
- 1:16Speaker 2: take going forward and gold off of.
- 1:17Speaker 1: What you guys. Yeah, because there's we've seen some consistency
- 1:20Speaker 1: in the in the UH in the preseason as well
- 1:23Speaker 1: as carrying over here and with big emphasis to try
- 1:26Speaker 1: and shore that up, that was a real strength in
- 1:29Speaker 1: the game.
- 1:32Speaker 3: How are you starting tackles doing well?
- 1:35Speaker 1: I don't have much more for you to update. We're
- 1:38Speaker 1: gonna go day to day once we get back Wednesday
- 1:40Speaker 1: and see where we are. They came walking in today
- 1:44Speaker 1: in the office and he was walking all right and
- 1:46Speaker 1: all that. So we'll hold a good thought Charles making
- 1:49Speaker 1: it around. But it's gonna take a little bit before
- 1:52Speaker 1: we know how much.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I guess do you pin the offensive circles in the
- 1:55Speaker 2: second half on not having those.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Guys And well, no, they didn't, you know they that
- 2:00Speaker 1: didn't really even show up as an issue until late
- 2:02Speaker 1: you know, they when they really started to crank it
- 2:04Speaker 1: after us Stone held held up pretty well. Jake got
- 2:07Speaker 1: his his looks in there, and they they did Okay,
- 2:10Speaker 1: there's a couple of rushes right there in the game
- 2:12Speaker 1: that that that we got rolled back a little bit.
- 2:17Speaker 1: What did Is it just a sore need for aid?
- 2:19Speaker 1: It's just that some point. Yeah, yeah, it's a teller
- 2:24Speaker 1: area soreness. So but you know, he's had all of
- 2:29Speaker 1: the tests and we've seen all the stuff, and there's
- 2:31Speaker 1: nothing to do for it right now. Just he's got
- 2:33Speaker 1: a sorny You said on the radio, you expect where
- 2:37Speaker 1: this moon ever, you know, to practice fully this week
- 2:39Speaker 1: with the intent to place on it. Yes, that's that's
- 2:41Speaker 1: where we're approaching it. We'll see if that if that
- 2:43Speaker 1: works out, you know, we gotta get to get through
- 2:44Speaker 1: the days. But he's anxious to go. He practiced really
- 2:48Speaker 1: hard last week. You would have if you watched him,
- 2:51Speaker 1: you would have thought he could play. You know. We
- 2:52Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure that we got through a
- 2:54Speaker 1: whole nother week of preparation to secure it. And so
- 2:57Speaker 1: that's that's where we are.
- 2:58Speaker 2: When you live and watched it with a doubt about
- 3:00Speaker 2: your third.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Down defense, Uh, we needed to do as always, it
- 3:05Speaker 1: works together, you know with the rush in the coverage,
- 3:07Speaker 1: and we didn't. We weren't able to hold the coverage
- 3:10Speaker 1: up with the rush that we had, and he held
- 3:13Speaker 1: the football bit and made some great throws and some
- 3:16Speaker 1: really good catches and they converted with guys hanging on
- 3:19Speaker 1: him like a really good quarterback. Does you know. We
- 3:22Speaker 1: needed to make him move and we didn't make a
- 3:24Speaker 1: move enough. You can do it by covering guys. He's
- 3:27Speaker 1: got to hold the football and he moves around, or
- 3:29Speaker 1: you can get the quick rush on him that we
- 3:30Speaker 1: didn't get either one of those successfully. So they did
- 3:33Speaker 1: a really nice job against us. There was nothing new,
- 3:36Speaker 1: it was just the stuff that they do. But it
- 3:38Speaker 1: was what was old was that Matthew Stafford could still
- 3:41Speaker 1: do it, you know, and he did a great job
- 3:43Speaker 1: in it. Trey Brown, what'd you think of his day?
- 3:47Speaker 1: He had a couple of plays, you know that he'd
- 3:48Speaker 1: like to get back. Missed the tackle in a critical
- 3:50Speaker 1: situation that was really not a very difficult play, just
- 3:53Speaker 1: kind of get in an awkward situation. He got bumped
- 3:58Speaker 1: on them, you know, on the big man and man
- 3:59Speaker 1: corner out there. They caught you know, he bumped into
- 4:01Speaker 1: our guy. So that's something we have that's kind of
- 4:03Speaker 1: self inflicted. You know, we need to work together to
- 4:05Speaker 1: get get that so it doesn't happen. But other than that,
- 4:09Speaker 1: he was in their battling. What was yours about?
- 4:12Speaker 2: I guess Atino Smith's day.
- 4:14Speaker 1: We weren't able to take advantage of some of the
- 4:16Speaker 1: things we've been doing, the things that we've been counting on.
- 4:18Speaker 1: It didn't come through. You know, we went deep a
- 4:19Speaker 1: few times and didn't give our guys a chance, you know,
- 4:21Speaker 1: and and and then the third down, you know, troubles.
- 4:25Speaker 1: You know, it comes down we got throw and catch it,
- 4:27Speaker 1: you know. So he's got to work with his guys,
- 4:29Speaker 1: and he was. He was solid about the you know,
- 4:33Speaker 1: competing through the day. It was clear, you know, throughout
- 4:35Speaker 1: what was going on, what we were, the adjustments that
- 4:37Speaker 1: we were making as the game went on. As always,
- 4:41Speaker 1: he was competing in battling. But it didn't turn out
- 4:44Speaker 1: to be a productive day force. You know, we didn't
- 4:45Speaker 1: throw the ball for very many yards, didn't hit the
- 4:47Speaker 1: big place that we would like to have had a
- 4:49Speaker 1: shot at. You know, we missed on the on the
- 4:52Speaker 1: trick play. You know, he just couldn't quite get the
- 4:54Speaker 1: ball off. It's a play we've been looking forward to
- 4:56Speaker 1: all you know, all camp and all that, but so
- 4:59Speaker 1: we we missed some opportunities down the field and then
- 5:02Speaker 1: then come back on the third downs. A couple of
- 5:04Speaker 1: misses on third down, but he wasn't all his misses
- 5:06Speaker 1: at all, and it was just guys working together and
- 5:08Speaker 1: trying to convert. Didn't handle a slant route, and there's
- 5:10Speaker 1: a couple of things we could have come through for
- 5:12Speaker 1: him and helped him out.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Shane water last we told us that he changed some
- 5:16Speaker 3: practice early in the training camp to do third down
- 5:20Speaker 3: work specifically, and.
- 5:22Speaker 1: We've worked a long time on this. Yeah, we were
- 5:24Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons we're really disappointing, Greg is
- 5:27Speaker 1: we we've spent a lot of time, a lot of
- 5:28Speaker 1: competitive time with real focus on it, and unfortunately it
- 5:33Speaker 1: came out that we didn't get the results that we,
- 5:34Speaker 1: you know, we were hoping for. It's been an area
- 5:37Speaker 1: of a focus for us and so it continues to be.
- 5:40Speaker 1: It got you know, accentuated again after this thing.
- 5:44Speaker 3: What change, What were the changes you've made or what
- 5:46Speaker 3: what have you emphasized.
- 5:47Speaker 1: On third down that more competitive situations moving to football
- 5:51Speaker 1: to try to create you know, what it feels like
- 5:53Speaker 1: to go from first, second down and now you're in
- 5:55Speaker 1: a third down situation, not just practicing like eight or
- 5:58Speaker 1: ten third downs in a row. You know, they trying
- 6:00Speaker 1: to make it situational, so we would have to you know,
- 6:03Speaker 1: help the players have to make the transition to get
- 6:05Speaker 1: the third down. Just stuff like that, you know, some
- 6:08Speaker 1: some creative ideas to try to just make it more
- 6:10Speaker 1: realistic and special teams on the radio this morning.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Is that an area just given the newness each year
- 6:17Speaker 2: with all the young guys that you're you're maybe always
- 6:19Speaker 2: uncertain going into a year, what's going on?
- 6:20Speaker 1: Yeah, this year in particular, it is you know, we've
- 6:23Speaker 1: got some new core guys to go out and Mikey
- 6:26Speaker 1: kicked the ball at crazy man. He kicked it almost
- 6:28Speaker 1: sixty yards a punt, so he did his part. Unfortunately,
- 6:32Speaker 1: you know we knock them off the post on a
- 6:35Speaker 1: goal on the field goal, but the block the return
- 6:39Speaker 1: in the kickoff return game and the punt return game.
- 6:42Speaker 1: DJ had a really good game force as well, so
- 6:46Speaker 1: you know we covered him inside of twenty five. They
- 6:48Speaker 1: fair caught when we got to see what a fair
- 6:49Speaker 1: cutch is like in the NFL on a kickoff, and
- 6:53Speaker 1: then we had a really good coverage on a couple
- 6:55Speaker 1: of punt returns.
- 6:56Speaker 2: So what did you see, I guess as the most
- 6:58Speaker 2: significant issue with the power rush. I'm kind of get
- 7:00Speaker 2: to get more of that done.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Yeah, we're we're disappointed that we didn't get more activity
- 7:08Speaker 1: from the guys on the edge. You know. We we
- 7:09Speaker 1: got to get get what we caused the problems, and
- 7:11Speaker 1: we have to create the problems with our with our
- 7:13Speaker 1: calls as well. And we did a lot of different
- 7:17Speaker 1: things in the rush, different types of pressures, but we
- 7:21Speaker 1: need to do more probably to get it going. Particularly
- 7:25Speaker 1: here here's a really good quarterback coming up, very similar
- 7:28Speaker 1: in style, very similar in system, and uh, you got
- 7:33Speaker 1: to make Jerry Goff move also, you know. So they're
- 7:36Speaker 1: very uh, you know, very similar, and so we have
- 7:39Speaker 1: to do a good job finding our ways. But mostly
- 7:41Speaker 1: it's just we'd love to see some more edge work,
- 7:44Speaker 1: you know, with the guys, get on the corners of the
- 7:46Speaker 1: guys and get in the backfield.
- 7:48Speaker 2: What do you think of Daryl Taylor's day?
- 7:49Speaker 1: You missed a lot of time for you in camp,
- 7:51Speaker 1: and yeah, well I don't He didn't have the highest
- 7:53Speaker 1: of expectations for him to be at his best. He's
- 7:55Speaker 1: not practiced enough to be really at his best. But
- 7:58Speaker 1: he's getting there, and he had you know, he got
- 8:00Speaker 1: a good number of plays to get started. It's kind
- 8:02Speaker 1: of we're returning him to action kind of. This will
- 8:05Speaker 1: be a really good week for him. I think he
- 8:06Speaker 1: came out in good shape and feels okay about it,
- 8:09Speaker 1: and I should be able to work really diligently to
- 8:12Speaker 1: get back to full flow. But but it was, it
- 8:15Speaker 1: was a good start for him, but he didn't you know,
- 8:16Speaker 1: it wasn't able to make anything happen. But so that's
- 8:19Speaker 1: kind of how you measure the rushers. You know, still
- 8:21Speaker 1: plan on.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Rotating Mike and Tray like that going forward.
- 8:26Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see what happens here with Spoon coming
- 8:28Speaker 1: back and see how it all fits together. Don't. I
- 8:30Speaker 1: don't have that answer for you yet.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Do you expect that Jamal will be able to get
- 8:33Speaker 2: back out of practice.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he should be on the practice field this
- 8:36Speaker 1: week taking snaps first time.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Full full scrimmage or full practice.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Let's see, Let's take it one day at a time.
- 8:46Speaker 1: He's gonna have a limited amount of plays as he
- 8:49Speaker 1: gets back in reinterest, but he'll get an individual work
- 8:51Speaker 1: and started getting some of the basic stuff just to
- 8:54Speaker 1: get him back out there. The amount that Jordan played yesterday,
- 8:57Speaker 1: do you feel like that's a good amount coming it
- 8:59Speaker 1: worked out. I thought he played really well. I liked
- 9:02Speaker 1: his improvement in the past game as well as his
- 9:05Speaker 1: consistency on his fits he played. I thought he played
- 9:08Speaker 1: one of his better games. And to come out the
- 9:11Speaker 1: first time out and do that, it's really encouraging. He
- 9:14Speaker 1: was fast and physical and he looked good. So I'm
- 9:18Speaker 1: I think he had fifty seven or something like that
- 9:20Speaker 1: that we counted with fifty something, you know, and we'll
- 9:24Speaker 1: see what happens with that. There's a few long drives.
- 9:27Speaker 1: We've got a chance to wrest him. He was in
- 9:28Speaker 1: and out a little bit in the different packages, so
- 9:31Speaker 1: we'll continue to do that. I'm not making any calling
- 9:34Speaker 1: it right now, but he looks like he can play
- 9:36Speaker 1: a full football game.
- 9:37Speaker 2: He showed that he can call the defense last year
- 9:41Speaker 2: for you and everything.
- 9:41Speaker 3: But is there something for him and just being able
- 9:43Speaker 3: to play free and kind of not having that responsibility
- 9:46Speaker 3: on his shoulders.
- 9:47Speaker 1: I think it's yeah. I think it's something he can
- 9:49Speaker 1: benefit from him, particularly with the guy that he trusts
- 9:51Speaker 1: so much in Bobby you know that to make the
- 9:53Speaker 1: calls and direct the traffic out there does give him
- 9:56Speaker 1: a chance to be a little more freelance, a little
- 9:58Speaker 1: more his little more time see what's going on, you know,
- 10:00Speaker 1: and evaluating, assess what's happening and as the formations line
- 10:04Speaker 1: up and stuff like that. So you know, it's it's
- 10:07Speaker 1: it's not something he can't handle, like you said, but
- 10:10Speaker 1: I think it. I think he probably enjoys it. I've
- 10:12Speaker 1: not asked him that though, so you might want to
- 10:13Speaker 1: ask him if.
- 10:14Speaker 2: Bobby, look, what do you go back and looked at
- 10:15Speaker 2: me obviously the.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Tackle numbers were here sitting just when you're back and
- 10:19Speaker 1: looked out at how to look. He played a really
- 10:21Speaker 1: good football game. Yeah, he did a great job. It
- 10:24Speaker 1: was all over the place, really active, physical with his tackles,
- 10:29Speaker 1: controlled the show. He did a lot of movement stuff
- 10:31Speaker 1: up front that he had to control. He did a
- 10:33Speaker 1: great job with all of that. A couple of coverage
- 10:36Speaker 1: opportunities that he could have get a little tighter on,
- 10:38Speaker 1: you know, but other than that, he did a nice job.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Had a real nice pass rush one time, one of
- 10:42Speaker 1: the better rushes we had. So he's back and he's
- 10:46Speaker 1: really frustrated about not getting this win for all the
- 10:48Speaker 1: obvious reasons, but he'll bounce right back with us.
- 10:52Speaker 3: Is eighty one snap sustainable for him?
- 10:55Speaker 1: I don't know if it is for anybody. You know,
- 10:58Speaker 1: I think it's a big challenge. If anybody could ever
- 11:00Speaker 1: do it, he could, and but that's not how we
- 11:04Speaker 1: would like it to be. We'd like to get it
- 11:05Speaker 1: in the fifties. Did you think of Kobe Bryant's day?
- 11:09Speaker 1: Kobe was pretty solid, did okay job in all of
- 11:13Speaker 1: his fifths. He had a lot of things that he
- 11:14Speaker 1: did that were different in this game, you know, playing
- 11:17Speaker 1: on two different positions. Did a nice job in general.
- 11:21Speaker 1: So I'm encouraged. Kobe is really taking a step forward.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I talked to him, I think it
- 11:28Speaker 1: was before the game, just talking about how much clear
- 11:31Speaker 1: of the game is to him now compared to what
- 11:33Speaker 1: it was last year and the blur that it was.
- 11:34Speaker 1: I mean, he feels really more confident and more aggressive
- 11:37Speaker 1: and all that, which is a natural thing. But he
- 11:40Speaker 1: has benefited from that. So you know, he's going to
- 11:43Speaker 1: continue to place a good ballplayer and makes a lot
- 11:44Speaker 1: of things happen.
- 11:45Speaker 3: So with your scheme in the outside linebackers you have
- 11:49Speaker 3: should you not in general actor blitz as much to
- 11:53Speaker 3: create pressure?
- 11:55Speaker 1: That that really great. That depends on the staff and
- 11:58Speaker 1: the coaching scheme and you know, philosophy and all that stuff.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I mean, there's no set way. You get to do
- 12:03Speaker 1: it anyway you want to. You know, it just depends.
- 12:06Speaker 1: You know, for if Foreman Rush is hitting it and
- 12:08Speaker 1: then we don't have to pressure. That's that's you know,
- 12:10Speaker 1: a standard. It kind of goes around the league. But
- 12:13Speaker 1: we like it after and we like to mix it up.
- 12:15Speaker 1: We just want to be more effective with it. Well
- 12:17Speaker 1: that you guys are bringing in left up the tackle
- 12:20Speaker 1: Jason Peters and you confirm then he's not here yet,
- 12:23Speaker 1: So I don't know that until he gets here, you know,
- 12:26Speaker 1: I can I don't even know what. I don't know
- 12:28Speaker 1: what my standards are there. But uh, we have talked
- 12:31Speaker 1: to him.
- 12:32Speaker 2: I know that is a sign that Charles's tow is bad.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Well, you both tackles left the game, so you know
- 12:40Speaker 1: we're a little concerned. Mentioned the conversation you had with
- 12:44Speaker 1: DK and you also mentioned that it's been an ongoing
- 12:46Speaker 1: thing for a few years. How do you get that
- 12:48Speaker 1: message to stick this time? With them. Well, we'll wait
- 12:54Speaker 1: and see. We'll wait and see on that one. You know,
- 12:58Speaker 1: he was he was great dealing talking about you know,
- 13:01Speaker 1: the game and all that stuff. We had a great
- 13:03Speaker 1: conversation and very serious and you know, man, the man
- 13:07Speaker 1: down down to it, and it was he wants to
- 13:09Speaker 1: be great, and he wants to do everything he can
- 13:11Speaker 1: to be great, and and so we'll figure it out.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Was anything in the secondary yesterday, uh part of maybe
- 13:19Speaker 3: some grom pains of Julian and Pondre having their first live.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Action Julian gets and he has a lot of different
- 13:27Speaker 1: situations that happens for the way we're playing him, so
- 13:30Speaker 1: he has a lot of things that he has to do,
- 13:32Speaker 1: uh in coverage, and he he got you know, he
- 13:35Speaker 1: had he had tight ends, he had receivers, he at
- 13:37Speaker 1: the back, he had a little bit of everything, you know,
- 13:38Speaker 1: and then he has to do all that stuff. So
- 13:39Speaker 1: he's got a little bit more than than uh than
- 13:41Speaker 1: Q Diggs. So those guys are working it out and
- 13:43Speaker 1: talking through it, making all the decisions and all. I
- 13:45Speaker 1: thought Julian did a nice job. But they did get him,
- 13:47Speaker 1: you know, on a play and on a really well
- 13:50Speaker 1: executed tight end play quarterback through a great ball too.
- 13:54Speaker 1: So but they're they're getting they're they're doing good well together.
- 13:57Speaker 1: You know. I like the way that they're communicating. They
- 13:59Speaker 1: give us a lot of uh stability going forward. But
- 14:02Speaker 1: it was just the first game with a bunch of plays,
- 14:04Speaker 1: you know, so it makes a big difference. Uh. As
- 14:06Speaker 1: we you know, as we gained some more uh experience together,
- 14:09Speaker 1: we'll get better. He games for you last year.
- 14:15Speaker 2: What have you seen from him in that.
- 14:20Speaker 1: He's he's a good active player. Yeah, he's he understands
- 14:24Speaker 1: the system. He knows the principles really well. He's clear
- 14:26Speaker 1: about it. Uh. You really can count on him, trust
- 14:29Speaker 1: him that he gets it and he knows what's going on. Uh.
- 14:31Speaker 1: He's been really consistent with his effort. Always big, long kid.
- 14:35Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of he's got a lot
- 14:36Speaker 1: of assets you know that that help him. He did
- 14:38Speaker 1: a pretty good job yesterday and jumping in, So we
- 14:41Speaker 1: feel pretty pretty good about him. You know, if he
- 14:43Speaker 1: has to go again that he can fill in different
- 14:46Speaker 1: topic here. Uh, you guys and Detroit actually have spent
- 14:49Speaker 1: the most person second round picks on running backs over
- 14:52Speaker 1: the last I think since two thousand eighteen.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Obviously there's some people who say, yeah, that's too early
- 14:56Speaker 3: to take a running back.
- 14:59Speaker 1: See it differently, why do you I wish they hadn't
- 15:02Speaker 1: because they got a really good player their pick. He
- 15:04Speaker 1: gives us a great player. I wish he would have
- 15:07Speaker 1: changed his mind about that. But why do you think
- 15:10Speaker 1: we do that? Y Well, cause they're kind of in
- 15:15Speaker 1: the middle of the game, you know, and if if
- 15:17Speaker 1: you want to run the football, it's great to have
- 15:20Speaker 1: a guy who can really count on and that can make
- 15:21Speaker 1: things happen and make your line better and make your
- 15:23Speaker 1: whole team better. We just really value it, Johnny, and
- 15:25Speaker 1: I have been like that for you forever. Really great
- 15:37Speaker 1: he is. He is such a well first player. I
- 15:40Speaker 1: mean he gets it, you know, and he understands the
- 15:42Speaker 1: game well enough that you can move him around even
- 15:44Speaker 1: as a as a pup, you know, and he can
- 15:47Speaker 1: he can go out there and run the routes and
- 15:48Speaker 1: he can uh you know, make them the adjustments and
- 15:51Speaker 1: and he catches the ball really well. So we have
- 15:53Speaker 1: no restrictions on what we can do with him. And
- 15:56Speaker 1: uh so he got a nice little taste of it,
- 15:58Speaker 1: you know, yesterday, and well he'll get more as we go.
- 16:01Speaker 2: I know Tyler clear protocol yesterday, but.
- 16:03Speaker 1: Was he Yes, he was okay. How about Boy? He
- 16:08Speaker 1: was ok He's not on the list right now, so
- 16:10Speaker 1: he's okay. I think it was last night.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Anything else, thank you, thanks or this boy boy just
- 16:29Speaker 2: there