Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Pete Carroll: "That Was An Incredible Football Game"
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Wow, what a what an event for our crowd and
- 0:05Speaker 1: our fans and the following.
- 0:06Speaker 2: And all that.
- 0:07Speaker 1: What a beautiful night for you know, for a Monday
- 0:09Speaker 1: night football game, and to make it that dramatic and
- 0:12Speaker 1: all those an incredible football games when nobody will forget
- 0:14Speaker 1: that game. It was an interesting game and that that
- 0:18Speaker 1: early on we kind of we didn't get going well
- 0:21Speaker 1: and stumble around, couple penalties.
- 0:22Speaker 2: And things like that. We just lost our drives and uh.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Defense gave up an easy drive kind of in the
- 0:28Speaker 1: first one. But then we just hung in there and
- 0:30Speaker 1: just kept hanging and hanging, and it really was the
- 0:32Speaker 1: theme of the night that we just kept playing and
- 0:35Speaker 1: knowing that if we just keep hanging in there, something
- 0:37Speaker 1: could happen, and we stuck with it, and sure enough
- 0:40Speaker 1: the players just started happening. Some beautiful football by by
- 0:44Speaker 1: a bunch of guys. I would love the way we
- 0:47Speaker 1: ran the ball in the third quarter.
- 0:48Speaker 2: It changed the game.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Uh we that drive and then we threw it, and
- 0:53Speaker 1: then the next the drive drive after that we ran
- 0:56Speaker 1: the ball well again and and really kind of took
- 0:58Speaker 1: the game in our control for us, so that it
- 1:00Speaker 1: was the game that we wanted to play against these guys,
- 1:02Speaker 1: and so it worked out beautifully. So many guys made
- 1:06Speaker 1: things happen in a special way. Kenny played a great
- 1:09Speaker 1: football game for US tonight. He was all over the place,
- 1:12Speaker 1: just a fantastic game, running and catching. By the time
- 1:16Speaker 1: that the game was over, it took all night to
- 1:18Speaker 1: get it done.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Drew played a.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Fantastic football game for US and did a beautiful job.
- 1:24Speaker 1: DK came through in the last drive and then other
- 1:26Speaker 1: times in the game, and just tough plays, really difficult
- 1:29Speaker 1: plays he made him. He made him that you know
- 1:31Speaker 1: other guys might not make. And then the throwing catch
- 1:36Speaker 1: to Jackson. I haven't seen the good looks of it yet,
- 1:39Speaker 1: but I do know what everybody's comments are were, that's
- 1:43Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna make that play.
- 1:44Speaker 2: He's gonna make that catch. He's just that good.
- 1:46Speaker 1: And for him to have that opportunity, for you to
- 1:48Speaker 1: put the ball on him, for Shane to call it,
- 1:50Speaker 1: guys protect all of that. There's so many gorgeous things
- 1:52Speaker 1: that happened there football wise. That gave us a chance
- 1:55Speaker 1: to get ahead there.
- 1:55Speaker 2: At the end. And then the defense finished the game.
- 1:58Speaker 2: They finished the game and came through.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Uh Julian Love's game was you know, you tag it
- 2:03Speaker 1: onto what he did last week and then this week.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Incredible game, incredible plays, The last catch is exquisite, on
- 2:11Speaker 1: the sidelines, toes tap tapping, hanging on to the football
- 2:14Speaker 1: and the game win a game, a walk off, interceptional,
- 2:17Speaker 1: but just fantastic stuff. So I'm sure there's a lot
- 2:23Speaker 1: of stuff that you guys want to ask questions about,
- 2:25Speaker 1: but uh, we're thrilled to get that game. It's been
- 2:28Speaker 1: a really difficult stretch. We played great football teams that
- 2:30Speaker 1: are on a high and every game we've been in it,
- 2:34Speaker 1: every game we've.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Had a chance, and we just weren't able to get
- 2:37Speaker 2: over the hump.
- 2:38Speaker 1: This was a huge ballgame for us, of course, going
- 2:41Speaker 1: into the final stretcher, but uh, our guys kept hanging
- 2:46Speaker 1: and it's so obvious, and we kept practicing really hard
- 2:49Speaker 1: and working really hard, and everybody kept believing that we
- 2:51Speaker 1: could do something.
- 2:52Speaker 2: And so tonight is that night.
- 2:53Speaker 1: So now we gotta we'll get cracked, cracking for the
- 2:56Speaker 1: next game, and we got a short week and we'll
- 2:58Speaker 1: just have to come back together and get two.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Yards less than two minutes. What does this tell you.
- 3:03Speaker 1: After you lockaway and felt beautiful football, Just beautiful football.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I mean that the poise that we talked to you
- 3:10Speaker 1: about last week. I mean, he's that's where he's been.
- 3:12Speaker 1: He's been on it, he's been in command. You know,
- 3:16Speaker 1: there's a couple of completes in that drive. Came right
- 3:18Speaker 1: back and hit it and converted and made the first
- 3:20Speaker 1: downs and all and then to throw the touchdown to
- 3:22Speaker 1: win the football game. It's amazing stuff. He would be
- 3:27Speaker 1: the first to tell you about the guys around him.
- 3:28Speaker 1: The offensive line did a great job tonight running the
- 3:30Speaker 1: football one and also past prone. They did a beautiful
- 3:33Speaker 1: job against these guys and gave us a chance.
- 3:35Speaker 2: And I mean, we couldn't have some more for him
- 3:39Speaker 2: in that game tonight.
- 3:41Speaker 3: What was the process? Keep deciding on Drew as the starter?
- 3:44Speaker 1: Yeah, Drew took most of the plays during the week.
- 3:47Speaker 1: We really tried to save Geno as much as we
- 3:49Speaker 1: could and not overexpose him because it's been so short,
- 3:52Speaker 1: you know, such a short span of time since the strain.
- 3:56Speaker 1: And we went out tonight to see could he play
- 3:59Speaker 1: if we needed him to play in the workout, and
- 4:01Speaker 1: he looked really good in the workout, but he just
- 4:04Speaker 1: that was the really the one taxing workout that we
- 4:07Speaker 1: put him through, so we knew we could dress him
- 4:09Speaker 1: and if we needed him, you know, we could go
- 4:10Speaker 1: to him, and it hopes we wouldn't have to, so
- 4:13Speaker 1: we can buy him another week of healing because it's
- 4:16Speaker 1: it was really too soon.
- 4:17Speaker 2: It was a tough decision. You know, it was hard.
- 4:20Speaker 1: It can be on Geno because we got him all
- 4:22Speaker 1: the way to that point and then say, now, you know,
- 4:24Speaker 1: dress be there if we need you, but we'll go
- 4:27Speaker 1: with the other fellas see if we can make it
- 4:28Speaker 1: to the next week, so you can come back and
- 4:29Speaker 1: play next week. And so we would be very hopeful
- 4:32Speaker 1: that that would happen, that you would be able to
- 4:34Speaker 1: you know, play next practice next week and get ready
- 4:36Speaker 1: and prove it and and really secure his opportunity to play.
- 4:40Speaker 1: And he's going to do it in his brain. I mean,
- 4:41Speaker 1: he's a freaking warrior. But we just got to make
- 4:44Speaker 1: sure he gets the reps.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Did you on that decision?
- 4:46Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. We were battling. We were battling,
- 4:49Speaker 2: but you know, he he understood the how do.
- 4:52Speaker 1: You feel about the products being true made this week
- 4:54Speaker 1: compared to last way to the decision making and you know, honestly, honestly,
- 4:59Speaker 1: I can't tell you that there's that much it's that different.
- 5:01Speaker 1: I can't tell you that. But we did to a
- 5:02Speaker 1: couple of pic you know. I don't have that perspective
- 5:07Speaker 1: right now to compare it. But I thought that his
- 5:09Speaker 1: night tonight was you know, a great night against a
- 5:12Speaker 1: bunch of guys or championship club, you know.
- 5:14Speaker 2: And uh so he came through.
- 5:17Speaker 3: At what point before kickoff did you decide on the
- 5:21Speaker 3: block is fan?
- 5:22Speaker 1: Yeah, we went up to the window, you know, when
- 5:24Speaker 1: we we had to figure out who could dress and
- 5:26Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and so I didn't know
- 5:28Speaker 1: when before we went out. We didn't know Gino would
- 5:30Speaker 1: be able to dress in the game. But he did
- 5:31Speaker 1: a beautiful job in the workout and showed us that
- 5:34Speaker 1: and so whatever that time frame is, that's when we
- 5:36Speaker 1: were we got serious about it and all that. That's
- 5:40Speaker 1: when you decided a block we'd start or did you
- 5:42Speaker 1: ye side later on about that? Yeah, we took a
- 5:45Speaker 1: little bit of time, you know, because the first thing
- 5:47Speaker 1: was just reacted. Okay, gee, he could dress, he could
- 5:49Speaker 1: play if we needed him, he could go out there,
- 5:50Speaker 1: and we'd have to figure out how to get him
- 5:52Speaker 1: through the game, and he would he would have done
- 5:55Speaker 1: everything in power to do that. But I thought we
- 5:57Speaker 1: made a hard decision, but a good decision, and now
- 6:00Speaker 1: we you know, he'll have a chance to really come back,
- 6:02Speaker 1: guaranteed this week, this this time, this next week, this week,
- 6:06Speaker 1: this game, three hours of.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Playing football, it might have been.
- 6:10Speaker 1: The expert said it was too much to expect fro
- 6:12Speaker 1: him coming healthy.
- 6:14Speaker 3: He started content was that if Gino Smith's healthy, he started.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Gino's are started.
- 6:20Speaker 3: For Drews.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Still thrilled for the kid, really, and this is a
- 6:26Speaker 1: first off. It's a memory that you're never gonna lose.
- 6:28Speaker 1: He's going to hold onto this Monday night forever. He
- 6:30Speaker 1: earned it, he deserved it. He played up to the
- 6:32Speaker 1: great moments in the game and came through. And it's
- 6:36Speaker 1: been hard. It's been hard for him. Any guy that
- 6:38Speaker 1: backs up that has the brain of a starter and
- 6:40Speaker 1: the brain of a championship kid, it's difficult to have
- 6:43Speaker 1: to You don't have to wait, and so he's had
- 6:46Speaker 1: to do it. But he had his chances and he
- 6:48Speaker 1: almost you know, put together a game good enough last week. Uh,
- 6:51Speaker 1: and then this week he did the whole thing, So
- 6:52Speaker 1: it was amazing. Drew had I think about one hundred
- 6:55Speaker 1: and sixteen yards passing before that final drive.
- 6:57Speaker 3: He missed the one beat moment for Tyler.
- 6:59Speaker 2: Really, yeah, we had a show out.
- 7:00Speaker 3: There to come back and hit the one. The DK
- 7:02Speaker 3: hit the one to Jackson in the end zone for
- 7:04Speaker 3: the game order to have him come up in that
- 7:06Speaker 3: moment like you needed to.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that the completions the DK were amazing.
- 7:10Speaker 1: One of them middle he ripped, and then but the
- 7:11Speaker 1: one when he was really tightly covered that, you know,
- 7:13Speaker 1: and for DK to make that catch in such a
- 7:15Speaker 1: crucial situation and the throw was low and and you know,
- 7:18Speaker 1: uh contested and all of that, it was a fantastic play.
- 7:21Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, he he made the plays he
- 7:23Speaker 1: needed to make to win the game.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Only two sacks. I don't think Drewlian got hit in
- 7:26Speaker 3: the first half one time.
- 7:28Speaker 2: No, he did not believe.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the guys up front did a fantastic job.
- 7:32Speaker 1: We just we the first quarter rhythm was screwed up
- 7:35Speaker 1: because we had a penalty.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Then we had a second and sixteen.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Situation on a lost and I think there was something
- 7:40Speaker 1: else that happened. We couldn't get our first down to
- 7:42Speaker 1: get moving. Meanwhile, they had you know, possessed the ball
- 7:45Speaker 1: quite a bit. So the first half just yeah, you
- 7:48Speaker 1: can't get much out of it. But we finished it
- 7:50Speaker 1: doing some stuff. We were moving the ball and we
- 7:51Speaker 1: had a sense that we could go and we had
- 7:52Speaker 1: the ball coming out, and so you know, we had
- 7:55Speaker 1: high hopes that we can get something going run game.
- 7:58Speaker 3: In the third quarter. You mentioned, was that because the
- 8:00Speaker 3: first half of bit you just said you didn't have
- 8:02Speaker 3: the chance.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we didn't get Yeah, that's how we intended
- 8:04Speaker 1: to play the game, and we didn't get a chance
- 8:05Speaker 1: to do it.
- 8:06Speaker 3: What happened on.
- 8:07Speaker 2: The situation with the fourth down and the timeout.
- 8:09Speaker 1: And then the review and yeah, yeah, well okay that
- 8:14Speaker 1: with the time running down, I called time out one
- 8:17Speaker 1: second left, and after I called the time out, they challenged.
- 8:22Speaker 2: The play and so I was a little screwed up
- 8:24Speaker 2: on the rules.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Well now, and I was trying to get the time
- 8:26Speaker 1: out back, and in essence, because we called time out,
- 8:29Speaker 1: they had extra.
- 8:30Speaker 2: Time to look at it.
- 8:31Speaker 1: I guess, you know, that's kind of what he was
- 8:32Speaker 1: hammering me about, because you know, they always get hammered.
- 8:36Speaker 1: So when they get a chance, they get after you
- 8:37Speaker 1: a little bit when you're know right, And so that's
- 8:40Speaker 1: that's what occurred there, and so that that was I'm
- 8:42Speaker 1: sure the right thing, but I was fighting it anyway.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Jackson now has two game owning touchdowns from the Poliments.
- 8:49Speaker 2: And for rookie to be that trusted by the quarterback
- 8:51Speaker 2: the Fort Harris, what did that say about what he's done.
- 8:54Speaker 2: I'm telling you, he was so chilled.
- 8:56Speaker 1: I mean, he just made the catch of his NFL
- 8:59Speaker 1: career and he was just as calm and poised. He
- 9:03Speaker 1: is a he's a great competitor. I'm serious about what
- 9:06Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I'm saying here this guy, it was
- 9:09Speaker 1: not too big a deal. It was like, no big deal.
- 9:12Speaker 1: It's just of course I made that catch. He's been
- 9:14Speaker 1: doing that his whole life. And that it's that kind
- 9:16Speaker 1: of confidence and savvy that that allows the guy to
- 9:19Speaker 1: separate from other players. And he's he's got that stuff
- 9:22Speaker 1: in him. And uh, I was incredibly impressed with that.
- 9:26Speaker 1: I caught a couple glimpses of him in between the
- 9:29Speaker 1: you know, all the craziness and all that stuff.
- 9:30Speaker 2: He was just on top of it. Man, it was
- 9:32Speaker 2: really really impressive.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Seemed to apply on the pre show that like reaggravated
- 9:37Speaker 1: this run practice the week before in a in a
- 9:42Speaker 1: in a play. He just felt it and didn't you
- 9:44Speaker 1: know we injury so much as he just felt it.
- 9:46Speaker 1: And so we tried to do stuff this past week
- 9:49Speaker 1: that didn't do that. We didn't want that to happening
- 9:51Speaker 1: because that's the setbacks that we were trying to avoid.
- 9:53Speaker 2: So we were really easy on him and made it
- 9:54Speaker 2: through it.
- 9:55Speaker 1: He was willing to do whatever, but it was just
- 9:58Speaker 1: he did not get a ton of work with any
- 10:01Speaker 1: tempo at all. So we took it all the way
- 10:03Speaker 1: and we were saving him to check him out tonight
- 10:05Speaker 1: see if he could be what you know, did that
- 10:07Speaker 1: break give him enough that he could play?
- 10:09Speaker 2: And he convinced us that he could do that.
- 10:12Speaker 1: But yet it was still going to be very risky
- 10:14Speaker 1: and so you know, with everybody was kind of involved, and.
- 10:17Speaker 2: I had to call it and that's what we did.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Was what was your impression of Leonard Williams Flavor night.
- 10:22Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry, but I didn't catch all the
- 10:25Speaker 1: stuff the guys in Luckmom, we're raving about it. I
- 10:28Speaker 1: didn't see what happened from him because they I felt
- 10:31Speaker 1: like they ran the ball pretty well against this and
- 10:33Speaker 1: not that's we didn't want that to happen. But Leonard
- 10:38Speaker 1: had to be doing a nice jep because as the
- 10:39Speaker 1: game went on, you know, half time, I think they're
- 10:41Speaker 1: averaging three point foot eight or something. That carry felt
- 10:44Speaker 1: like they had run for one hundred and fifty yards,
- 10:45Speaker 1: but they hadn't, so I don't have a good perspective.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 10:49Speaker 3: The two picks from Julian there and to get his
- 10:51Speaker 3: head and turned around and make the playoff.
- 10:52Speaker 2: That's four members has been involved with in the last
- 10:54Speaker 2: two weeks.
- 10:54Speaker 3: Holy cow, Holy can how big?
- 10:58Speaker 2: And uh too?
- 10:59Speaker 1: Yeah, he did an incredible job of playing. He had
- 11:03Speaker 1: some other tackles up by the line of scrimmage. He
- 11:04Speaker 1: did some cool, you know, some really cool things. But
- 11:06Speaker 1: both those catches were really challenging, difficult plays and he
- 11:08Speaker 1: made them look easy. Again, here's another kid that was
- 11:12Speaker 1: just so so comfortable with that moment, and you know
- 11:16Speaker 1: he was he would go out and go make another
- 11:18Speaker 1: one if you gave him a chance. It was just
- 11:20Speaker 1: he just was not moved by it. Beyond total poison
- 11:22Speaker 1: and composure and all.
- 11:23Speaker 2: It was really impressive.
- 11:25Speaker 1: And it's gonna have a baby this week too, so
- 11:26Speaker 1: we're really excited about that.
- 11:27Speaker 2: We finally got to figured it out.
- 11:28Speaker 1: If it's happened on Wednesday, so it's been kind of
- 11:30Speaker 1: Baby's been a little bit reluctant on us here, so
- 11:33Speaker 1: he's got a big week coming here.
- 11:34Speaker 3: What is it about Monday Night? Ctate raised a black tonight?
- 11:38Speaker 3: You guys have had so many great Moneay Night games
- 11:40Speaker 3: that come down to the bidre like this. What is
- 11:42Speaker 3: it about Monday and night have the magic that you
- 11:43Speaker 3: guys can pull out here again?
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 11:47Speaker 1: I really, you know, I will go to my dying
- 11:51Speaker 1: days not really, no, tell you truth because I can't
- 11:54Speaker 1: figure it out why other than the way we do it,
- 11:56Speaker 1: you know, and the way we talk about it. Then
- 11:57Speaker 1: we don't make this uh into something that it isn't.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And our guys, I mean, we were so like I
- 12:04Speaker 1: gave you so many examples of composure and poise and
- 12:07Speaker 1: hanging in there and all that stuff. Drue did a
- 12:09Speaker 1: fantastic job. It's what he said to the team afterwards,
- 12:11Speaker 1: how well we did that. That's being comfortable with the
- 12:14Speaker 1: moment and not letting it get you. And we came
- 12:17Speaker 1: to in great fashion, went in. Sorry, but what about
- 12:20Speaker 1: starting Jackson Overwolling on that time?
- 12:22Speaker 2: It's kind of late, you know, I'm just kind of
- 12:24Speaker 2: hanging out talking to it. I really don't want to
- 12:26Speaker 2: go home right now. I'm good. So if you get
- 12:28Speaker 2: more questions, I'm cool.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I started starting Michael Jackson at that corner.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Instead of wing.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Kind of, guys had a competition this week, and that's
- 12:35Speaker 1: how it came out kind of and and so, uh,
- 12:38Speaker 1: you know, they're all playing good football, and so we
- 12:40Speaker 1: just thought it was worthy of those guys having a chance,
- 12:44Speaker 1: you know, to battle for it.
- 12:45Speaker 2: And that's just the way it came out from the week.
- 12:46Speaker 1: So, you know, coach against the Eagles in senior time, Percy,
- 12:52Speaker 1: how it was, I mean to you personally and consistency
- 12:54Speaker 1: of this program.
- 12:55Speaker 2: I like stuff like that, but it's no big deal.
- 12:57Speaker 2: I mean, it's just you know, I like numbers like that.
- 13:00Speaker 3: What's exciteds there?
- 13:01Speaker 1: And there?
- 13:01Speaker 3: What was your message to him?
- 13:04Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 13:04Speaker 1: I was kind of out of my mind in there,
- 13:06Speaker 1: so I really can't recall other than you know, the
- 13:09Speaker 1: big thing is to make sure that we realize that
- 13:11Speaker 1: if you keep hanging you can win. That's why we
- 13:13Speaker 1: always talk about the fourth quarter. See, this is fourth
- 13:16Speaker 1: quarter time right now, this is we got what we
- 13:18Speaker 1: got three games left or something that's right, right, three
- 13:20Speaker 1: games left. This is the fourth quarter starting tonight. And
- 13:23Speaker 1: it kind of was. But the monkey seventeen game schedule
- 13:26Speaker 1: you can't quite get it right, you know. So, But
- 13:29Speaker 1: it's not just it's not just words. There's a there's
- 13:32Speaker 1: a mentality about finishing. And we kicked this thing off
- 13:35Speaker 1: exactly right tonight. So I'm excited about our chances. And
- 13:40Speaker 1: these guys are too. They know, they know this is
- 13:42Speaker 1: what we talked about finishing all the time, all year long,
- 13:44Speaker 1: off season and all that, and this was the first
- 13:46Speaker 1: real moment and we captured a heck of the.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Night was that? So?
- 13:52Speaker 3: Why are we out of your mind?
- 13:53Speaker 2: And why was that out of my Mindcuse that was
- 13:56Speaker 2: so much fun that I might come on?
- 13:58Speaker 3: How close or not close?
- 13:59Speaker 2: Was he got him?
- 14:03Speaker 1: He's had he's got some he's got a legit issue
- 14:06Speaker 1: with with his hip and uh, it's not a damaged hip,
- 14:10Speaker 1: it's just a hit pointer. But it's really deep and
- 14:11Speaker 1: it's really it's really painfully he's been really uncomfortable with it,
- 14:14Speaker 1: so I can't imagine that he won't be able to
- 14:17Speaker 1: make it back. But that's that's me wishful thinking. We
- 14:20Speaker 1: need him back out there, by the way, I thought
- 14:23Speaker 1: already did a great job playing in that spot tonight.
- 14:25Speaker 1: He was all over and he did a bunch of
- 14:27Speaker 1: stuff disguise and rushing. He blitzed a number of times
- 14:29Speaker 1: and and uh, I was really fired up.