Pete Carroll: "This Was A Disappointing Loss For Us Today"

Pete Carroll (0:01)

This was the most disappointing loss for us today, because of the way we did it. And we made it really hard on ourselves so many times in this game, with the calls that were made. And I'm not disputing any of them, I'm just saying, we made, the penalties that happened were just out of line for us. And we have not been good in that area during the season in general, and today really blew up on us, and gave them a really good chance to take advantage of it, and they did. And found out that they could get their drive together and get to what they needed before the field goal drive, but there was big penalties in that one. And then we did it again in the final drive too. So I'm really disappointed because it feels like we did that to ourselves. And we talked so much about that, and we were trying to make sure that that's not part of our game. And shoot, it was the biggest part of the game, I thought. Nice job by them to finish it. They did a good job to do what they needed to do with the clock and all that. But they gave us a chance, and Geno was able to pop back out there to a couple of great balls to give us a shot. And we just didn't hit our field goal to win a game. That's kind of what the NFL is. You have those opportunities, we can create those, and then you gotta try to make them. And unfortunately, you're not gonna make them all. Last week was our game, this week was their game. And so it's really important that we turn it around and bounce back. We come back Thursday, and we got a big game coming up. But we'll have to really handle this well and get our act together, make sure that we can play a great football game because we're in control of what we do. We have to win the next week's game to put us in a good position. And so that wouldn't have changed it either way, but it just makes it a little more pressing this time. We got some guys banged up in the game.

Kenny got an oblique strain that was legit. He couldn't do anything, couldn't move hardly with it. And Bobo hurt his shoulder, but was able to come back in and play. Jerick Reid might have hurt his knee some. We'll see about that one. And Geno got a bruised kind of on his tricep, back of his elbow that kind of blew up a little bit, but he was able to come back and execute.

I don't have any idea.

He gave us a chance, you know, gave us a chance to kick the ball and win it. Long field goal for sure. You couldn't have a better guy to kick that one. Jason's been doing great, and he just didn't get a good hit on the ball this time, but I mean, he's exactly the right guy to win the game for us, obviously.

He convinced him on the sidelines he could do it. You know, he threw the ball enough, and it just took a little while for the blower to go, you know, kind of, whatever, dissipate or whatever. And he threw the ball on the sidelines where they thought, yeah, he can go. So it was a great job of him going in.

No, we didn't quite handle that as well as we'd like to. But we got in field goal range. You know, we got there and we had a shot. Jason's kickball has been that far before. You know, we would have loved to have been a little bit closer, obviously we weren't.

There were some choices in there. Yeah, I agree with that. There's choices. At what point did you know Geno was going to be able to come back? Right before the, you know, right when they made the kick, they turned to me and said he's ready to go. So I didn't know until then.

Yeah, we didn't do that as clean as we like.

I have no, I saw nothing. What did you think? Yeah, how about the one on, the one on woolen? I checked it on spoon in the end zone. I didn't.

Well, we played really good all day long. We did a really good job, and we controlled them. I don't know, they ran the ball for, I don't know, 60, 70 yards or something like that. And really, you know, Matthew wasn't able to get a bunch of numbers on this day. Third down was okay. I think we were five of 15 No, no, the other way around, two of nine, they think they were. Yeah, that's a good output for us. You know, we're pleased with that. It was enough to get us to win. But just, you know, on this day, with all that happened, that wasn't quite enough.