Pete Carroll: "I Love This Team"

Pete Carroll (0:02)

We really had one thing we could get done today. And that was come out and win this football game, regardless of what happened anyplace else. And I'm so proud of the way this happened. You know me, I like them when they finish like this. And as hard as it could possibly get, all the way down to the nub, it took another two minute drive, and it took a stop, you know, to get it done. But the way these guys hung, and how tough they were, and how they just did not give up on the chance to go, everybody wanted to go for two, that was the easiest decision ever.

I just thought it was a really impressive finish for us under the circumstances that we had. And you know, could we win two games a day? Well, we would try to win two games a day, but we only had one shot. So I thought it was a stellar effort across the board to get that done. And these guys are playing good too, and you can see it, you can see why. They got good players.

So I don't know how to put it all in a capsule here other than to say that I love this team, and I love the way that these guys play. And I've told you that for such a long time that they continue to keep coming back. They continue to keep believing. They stick to the essence of what we're trying to get done. If you could have heard Locke talk to him in pregame and before we went out, and in his words of wisdom about hanging together and playing for one another, and it's the guy next to you, and that he was gonna call on everybody just like he wants us to call on him, and all of the principles that are so powerful for a team, Locke was on it, and then here he did it again. We've been coming here for years. I think we've played 16 times here since I've been in Seattle, and I don't know, Locke must have made a winning touchdown in most of those catch, and he made a great play today to put us out there and to give us the chance, and then he also capped it off with a great, it was a great throw by Gee, but also a great finish on the two-minute play on the back of the end zone. Geno found him and hit him, and to give us a chance to win the game. So he's my hero. I mean, he's just my hero. He's just been such a great player for so long, and he continues to go unrecognized, probably around the world here, but it doesn't matter. We know how good he is, and what a great contribution he's made to this program. So go ahead.

We were close. We were close, as somebody was saying that. We were close.

There was so much time left, 1.54. That was the discussion in my brain was, is there enough time? Can we hold them off and that kind of thing? And we just scored too fast, kind of. So there was a little, there was a moment there, but there were so many guys, and we all wanted to go for two, so it was really not a hard decision.

No, we had already talked about it. We had already talked about it before that.

Well, because everybody was on it. You know, everybody was for it. The guys, Geno on the field and all those guys there, and the guys on the sidelines, and the coaches, everybody was all for it. So it wasn't, what I'm saying, it wasn't a difficult decision. It was just going for it. It would have been fascinating to see what we would have done at the Bears one today, you know? It would have been a whole different ball game, maybe, I don't know. I don't know. But it was exactly the right thing to do. And our guys took to it and executed beautifully, perfectly to get that done.

Yeah.

You know, we didn't have a penalty today. You know, do you know how many times we've done that since I've been here? Twice. Once today and one other time somewhere about 10 years ago. I don't know what it was.

But it didn't feel like that today. It just didn't feel like that. There, we'll hear the explanation, if anybody cares about this game enough to dig into it, but there was a substitution there and we had a chance to substitute. And I'm running down the sidelines trying to get time out. And I was too far away. They couldn't hear me. And so they got a chance. We could have had an opportunity there because they did sub, you know, and the kicker came in. So that was, and they said that afterward, you know, so.