Pete Carroll: "That Was A Really Big Day For Us"

Pete Carroll (0:00)

Really big day for us.

Fantastic illustration of hanging and staying in it and keeping the belief going. And giving ourselves a chance to win a football game. A beautiful illustration of that. Well, I don't know, 30 seconds or something like that took to win a football game.

To celebrate the throwbacks and all that, I hope the fans loved it. It was fun for us, and it was a beautiful image in the stadium and all. It was really cool to see that. We didn't talk a whole lot about it here after the game. But I know the guys really did appreciate the opportunity to do that. And I keep going back to all of the memories that everybody had. That's why they liked it so much to see it and all that. And I'm glad we could be part of that.

Tough football game. These guys are really tough, man. They have the formula of playing great defense and running the football. And that's a formula that gives you a chance to win every time out. And I thought PJ Walker did a really good job to keep the thing moving and keep them in position to win a game. They did some things that we needed to stop. We didn't stop as well. The screens were a big part of the game. Didn't play the running game as well as we wanted to. But pretty much average like for them, kinda how they do it.

But all in all, Geno leading that drive, the guys keeping him clean up front so that we could throw the ball to do what we need to do to finish the game.

SPEAKER_2 (1:22)

Guys coming through the catches, the touchdown play to win the game was a fantastic block by DK.

Pete Carroll (1:29)

Clean, the guy was looking right at him. That's the call that they make. Sometimes I thought he did it perfectly.

SPEAKER_2 (1:34)

And Jackson got every inch out of that play, just in really championship fashion.

Pete Carroll (1:39)

So a lot of really cool, exciting things that happened today and fired up about it.

SPEAKER_2 (1:43)

It was a good example hanging in there for the offensive yesterday.

Pete Carroll (1:48)

We started so well. We looked so good starting out and we just couldn't quite find the rhythm of it. And that's because they're good. They're really good. And the fact that it's a close game, no surprise.

Yeah, that's what we love about it. Cuz the finishing execution that gets you the win, we take great pride in that. And that's something that we're always talking about and always striving to do. And that's why I love that illustration that we can do that. So next time we get a chance, we know that we've been there before. And so-

That's a great call for one. At the time, Clint made a great call to give us a chance to send them all on the pressure.

SPEAKER_3 (2:28)

And he had to figure out what to do with it because there was a guard or some of the tackles popping out on him and he had to do something.

Pete Carroll (2:34)

And he figured out how to leave his feet and get contact on the ball. And then it was a spectacular tips and overthrows for us. And for Julian to come up and make a big play, we stole the opportunity away from them with that play and it was really guys going for it and I was thrilled about that.

No, man, this is what he lives for. He lives for these opportunities and to go for it. And when it was on the line, everything's right there.

SPEAKER_3 (3:08)

He came up with a way to figure it out and did something that changed it, changed our fortunes in this game and it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_2 (3:15)

Jake Bobo's been on those jet motions, making blocks out of the goal line.

Pete Carroll (3:22)

Yeah, we kind of thought that if we handed to him, he's gonna figure out how to get in there and he did.

Wasn't perfect, but it was clean enough to get a score. And so, we continue to work him into everything that we're doing because he's a good ball player, he needs to be part of it. And so, you'll see him to continue more opportunities in different kinds of ways.

Yeah, because when a guy runs around the block, you see the tight ends on the backside and front side as well, and he did it perfectly. He kept his hands in really tight and then released at the right time so that there was no penalty. There was nothing that was wrong with that. It was exactly the way you should do it, right when we needed it most.