Pete Carroll: "That Was A Really Solid Win For Us"

Pete Carroll (0:01)

A really solid win for us to get this done.

Coming back home for the second time, we haven't been here for a while. And so we're trying to put together some consistency playing here. And where the consistency showed up was with our defense. They did a fantastic job again today to go back out at halftime after halftime and shut them down and not give anything up and just play really good football. To answer the bell, we had three horrible turnovers in this game. You just, it's so hard to win it, and it minus three in a game. And so the game stays close because of that. But the defensive guys did a great job of going out there answering the bell. I think they got three points out of the three turnovers. So that's huge.

It's a big source of pride for us that we do that well. And we have been doing it well during the season already and we just did it again. So I really fired up about that. Pass Rush was alive again today. A lot of opportunities for us to go get it and I was really fired up that we finished it. That's the way we like to finish games here at Lumen and chasing the quarterback around getting sacks and like that.

Geno had a really nice solid game, solid game and numbers were good.

Brought the pups to life in this game. It was great to see Jackson get his first touchdown and he had a number of contributions and Bobo freaking circus grab to hold that ball and get it by an eyelash down there and make that touchdown was a great play by both Geno and Bobo, but it's great for us here we're coming around to the halfway point and to have those pups playing like that, they can play like starters and they did. And so that's a great accomplishment through the process, it's what we shoot for. And so I really fired up to be able to say that those guys can go out there and play and it doesn't matter what's going on or who's in the game or whatever. They'll play like starters. Kenny had a really good day. There was hard, it's a hard tough day. Got over 100 yards, I think that's what I heard. But he battled all day long and did a really nice job. So I think the guys up front, somebody gave me the number that this is the fifth variation of our offensive line there, right? Yeah, okay, well, that's challenging.

But those guys did well today, and they protected Geno. And I don't know what the sack thing happened like, but it was a really good job by those guys getting 100 yard rusher and protecting the quarterback enough so that we could play a good football game. So a lot of good stuff, penalties still were a factor. But today again, we got better on third downs, both sides. I think we were seven out of 13 on offense, which is a great improvement. And it might have been like five for 15 or something like that on defense, which is another, we did it last week as well.

And that's a big deal for the way we're playing. That's why things are turning a little bit. So fired up that we're going places and we got out of there pretty healthy, other than Chenna. Chenna has a peck strain and we don't know anything about the extent of it at this point. Let's go look at the code.

John (2:55)

Seemed like Jordan Brooks was just all over the place. I mean, he's still only nine months from that surgery. Do you ever marvel at just what he's doing?

Pete Carroll (3:01)

Yeah, you know, John, he's never, ever even flinched. He really hasn't.

We held him out of some practices and trying to not overload him in preparation for the games early on. But he hasn't even flinched. He's such a fantastic athlete, so strong and explosive and all that. You can't see anything in his game that's off. This is the best he's been. And he showed that and he's just cleaned his game up so well. And where he's way more consistent than he was, it wasn't a consistency that he would just, he would go for stuff. And maybe not at the right time. And his timing now is really much, much advanced. And so he's just playing better football.

Mayhem. Did we know Witherspoon was out there today? Witherspoon was out there again today. Golly, had two great plays, another great hit, three great plays at least in the game and unfortunately the penalties take those plays away.