Carroll of the Seahawks has intriguing responses to two challenging queries.
After losing four straight games for the first time under head coach Pete Carroll, who has 14 years of experience, the Seattle Seahawks find themselves in uncharted territory.
Carroll also gave some unusual responses to a few questions during his weekly Seattle Sports show on Monday morning.
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Out of the conversation Carroll had with host Mike Salk, two in particular stood out.
Salk first inquired as to whether the 6-7 Seahawks, who fell to the San Francisco 49ers 28-16 on Sunday, could alter anything before their upcoming Monday Night Football game on December 18 against the 10-3 Philadelphia Eagles.
Here are a few tasks that need to be completed. Carroll answered, “There are some things we need to get done, and we’ll take care of business.
Carroll shot back as Salk started to ask a follow-up question.
“I promise not to discuss it with you. You’ll just have to watch to find out. Cannot assist you,” Carroll uttered.
Carroll quickly lightened the mood by making a joke about regular co-host Brock Huard missing Monday’s show due to illness, so that may have come across as a little more serious than he meant.
But Salk did manage to get in his follow-up query. Carroll described the potential change in this way, giving the impression that it would be more concerned with strategy or plan than with players:
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“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.”
However, Salk’s very next question was met with an enlightening reply.
“Do you think the players are understanding what you’re saying?” Salk enquired.
Carroll responded, “Ask them.” Afterwards.
Salk sought to learn more about that.
Alright. Salk remarked, “I suppose the reason I asked isn’t because of the messaging, but rather because it comes from you, from you, through the coaching staff to them.
Carroll picked it up 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.
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