Pete Carroll provides some interesting replies to two difficult issues
The Seattle Seahawks have lost four straight games for the first time under head coach Pete Carroll, who is in his 14th season.
Similarly, Carroll’s answers to several queries on his monthly Seattle Sports broadcast on Monday morning were out of the ordinary.
Carroll’s chat with host Mike Salk was notable for two reasons.
First, Salk wondered if the 6-7 Seahawks, coming off a 28-16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, should make any adjustments before their next game, a Monday Night Football battle against the 10-3 Philadelphia Eagles on Dec. 18.
“There are some things we need to do here.” “There are some things we need to do, and we’ll get them done,” Carroll replied.
Carroll instantly jumped back in when Salk asked a follow-up question.
“I’m not going to tell you about it, OK?” You’ll simply have to wait and see what happens. “I’m afraid I can’t help you,” Carroll responded.
That may have come out as a bit more serious than Carroll intended, as he quickly lightened the mood by making a joke about regular co-host Brock Huard being unable to appear on Monday’s episode due to sickness.
Salk, on the other hand, got his follow-up question in. This is how Carroll emphasized on the type of change that would be coming, implying it would be more focused on gameplan or scheme than personnel:
We have to fix some stuff, we have to fix the process, we have to make sure that we’re doing the right job as coaches to make sure they see the things that they need to see with the earnest (so) that they’ll carry it to the game time so when it happens, it happens right for us instead of happening wrong. It’s not very difficult to change that game. It’s not very difficult. It’s just doing things exactly right, and it’s easy. It’s part of the system. We should have gotten that done.
Salk’s next query, on the other hand, elicited a startling answer.
“Do you feel like your message is getting through to the players?” Salk inquired.
“Ask them,” Carroll replied. Next.”
Salk sought more information on the subject.
“OK. “I guess the reason I asked isn’t because of the messaging, but because it comes through you, through you, through the coaching staff to them,” Salk explained.
Carroll took over from there.
I have to do a better job in all areas. I’ll tell you that every week, no matter what, because there’s so many things that I might be able to affect. I might be to affected the coaches’ mind, the players’ mind, the team’s mind. You know, there’s so many aspects of it. It’s a fascinating opportunity to carry this out, but there’s always so much more that you could hope to do and get done, because you want guys to be perfect. You want them to do things exactly the way we image it and picture it, and exactly the way we try to orchestrate. And then when it comes to game time when they don’t, I gotta go right to the messaging, you gotta go right to the prep, the reps, the speed of the reps. Was it quality enough? Did we do enough to get the point across? Did we capture the guy that needed to be captured because maybe he didn’t quite get the emphasis? It just goes on and on. It’s a never-ending process, and ultimately, it’s my responsibility to get that done. And if it doesn’t get done, then I’ve got to go find the way to get it done. And so that’s how I take it. I don’t know how to be more accountable than that – not that that’s admirable. That’s just what you got to do to get the job done.
The Pete Carroll Show airs the next weekday at 9:30 a.m., following each Seahawks game, and takes up the final half-hour of Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk. Listen to the whole Pete Carroll Show this week in the podcast at this link or in the video or audio player near the top of this post.
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