Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll – Rams-Seahawks Postgame Quotes – Dec. 8, 2019

(Opening Remarks)

“Well, this is a rough night for the Seahawks tonight. We did not do what we had planned to do at all. And I thought it was a really good night for the Rams. They did a lot of stuff that they wanted to do. They were able to control the ball and move it like they wanted to and stay pretty secure with it for the most part as well. And they did a nice job on us early in the game. Without question early in the game, they were controlling the tempo and it took us a bit to get, we weren’t surprised by it, but we just didn’t handle it as well as we would like. And it took us a while to get settled down and then once we got settled down, then in the second half was a different game. But it was too much of a surge in the first half to overcome. We made our efforts, we made — the things that we do to get us back in it, we had couple great picks and a great touchdown by (Seahawks S) Quandre (Diggs), and we blocked the field goal too. We did the kinds of things that we needed to do, but we needed a couple plays on the other side to go ahead take advantage of it, and we weren’t able to find it. So a difficult night. And you got to hand it to them. They played great. They did just what they wanted to do. So it’s really — the interesting thing about it is it doesn’t change anything for us. We had to win this game and now we have to win the next one and keep on rolling if we’re going to do anything with this season, which we have a chance to do. And we got to go about our business. So it’s really important for us to go ahead and move on and get rolling and stay true to what’s next and that’s how we do it anyway and so it will be handy. It will be helpful for us and, in our mentality. So it’s a good game for them.”

 

(On what he knows about Seahawks RB Rashaad Penny)

“He’s he got an ACL sprain and we don’t know how serious it is, but it’s significant.”

 

(On if he said ACL)

“Yeah, that’s what I was told.”

 

(On if Seahawks QB Russell Wilson is feeling okay)

“Yes. (Seahawks QB) Russell (Wilson)? Yes. “

 

(On what they did defensively that made things tough on him tonight)

“Well, we kind of moved the ball. We felt like we ran the ball for, I don’t know, more than what we have been averaging, five yards or something like that, but we didn’t convert on third down. And, really, there was two crucial third downs when we really had, or third down and a fourth down when we had our chances, and we just need to keep moving and we just didn’t convert and we, the ball got away from us. In a game where they were really moving it, we had to stay with them, and we just didn’t convert like we needed to keep the ball in our hands and keep the next sequence and series available for us.”

 

(On him mentioning tempo and what the response is to that and if he lines up quicker)

“Just need to clean things up. We weren’t making our calls quickly enough. And they did a nice job. They always do. And we were prepared for it and all, but there was a couple things that happened that made it a little more difficult and we just didn’t get settled in. And so the first two drives for them were really well executed by them and we didn’t do well enough. And you saw us settle down and we were okay after that.”

 

(On the sacks given up)

“I don’t know. We got to keep from getting hit in the back field, for sure. And I think that, it seems like we need to, Russ needs to get the ball out to avoid the rush from being effective. Whether he has to throw it away or not, he’s got to do that to help us a little bit. But I thought their rush, which is as formidable as we face was there tonight and they did a good job with it.”

 

(On the fourth down play when they went for it and the type of play itself and it looked like it was open)

“Fourth and one? Yeah, it was a really nice execution, everything was there and we just didn’t catch the football.”

 

(On what the message is to the guys after the game)

“Yeah, this doesn’t change what’s ahead at all. Unfortunately, we had a chance to, a really nice chance to stay abreast and stay on top of our division, but we’ll deal with that later on as we, next week it starts — every week is extremely important and we just got to keep stacking them up. We’ve played really good football and won a lot of games here and this isn’t going to deter us from that.”

 

(On Diggs making impact plays, again tonight)

“Incredibly timed play. I mean, what it should show you, because it shows me, that he’d been there before. He had a chance to make a big play and he just made it look like it was as easy as could be. And it’s not the first time he’s done that. So he’s a really good ball player. We have been telling you about his savvy, his instincts and how natural a player he is. I thought that was obvious there. And also, the other pick was a really good one too. He went and helped outside of his area to go make a play by reading the quarterback and did a great job to come up with that ball too.”

 

(On if Penny is out for awhile and how he feels about the RB position)

“The obvious thing is that (Seahawks RB) C.J. (Prosise) steps up. We were able to get C.J. up this week. He hasn’t played in quite awhile now, so we’re very fortunate to have C.J. coming up. And (Seahawks RB Travis) Homer is still available to us.”

 

(On if he was expecting Rams CB Jalen Ramsey to shadow Seahawks DK Metcalf)

“We talked about what they might do and we didn’t know until game time. It didn’t matter.”

 

(On if that is a good experience for a rookie to go through and if he doesn’t go through — he’s physical, he gets in your face, tries to get in your head a little bit and it cost him 15 yards in the second half and if it is a good experience to know what that’s like)

“I’ll go along with you on that, okay, yeah, I guess. Every experience is fortunate important for him. They’re all first time stuff. And to have a player of that magnitude match up with you, it is significant. He shoved-he shoved you know, kind of thing. But the rest of the night — we’ll talk about it and see if there’s anything he can take away from it.”

 

(On Seahawks RB Chris Carson going over 1,000 for the year in a row)

“We lost him tonight. He’s been a tremendous football player for us and he continues to be a real force. He ran really hard tonight and did a great job — I don’t know what he gained tonight — but congratulations to he and the offensive line, those guys for getting that done, that’s a big accomplishment.”

 

(On if he feels like the Rams did a great job of covering receivers or Seahawks QB Russell Wilson not finding them or what can you say about that)

“I don’t know. I don’t know about that. Let me see the film.”

 

(On if Seahawks LB KJ Wright came back in)

“Yeah, (Seahawks LB) KJ Wright came back in, (Seahawks LB) Cody (Barton) came back in to play and all that, so those guys were all right.

 

(On what he thinks of Barton in general)

“I can’t tell you, I don’t know, I got to see some more stuff I got to see the film.”

 

(On if Seahawks DE Ziggy Ansah was close to being able to go tonight)

“He was close enough because he practiced all week, but he just, he just didn’t have full strength. And he was able to practice because of the mode that we were in all week and get the work. But he just wasn’t capable of mustering the strength he needed to pass the test at the end of the week. We didn’t know from one day to the next if he would, but he just couldn’t make it. So it wasn’t safe for him to play.”

 

(On Seahaws LB Mychal Kendricks and if he will be back next week)

“I don’t know that. Don’t know.”