Pete Carroll: "This Was A Really Impressive Finish For Us"

Pete Carroll (0:00)

I know you guys thought I'd probably be wearing my hat here, but...

This was a really impressive finish for us in this game.

The basics of what happened is we didn't turn the ball over one time, and we were plus one for the day, which we didn't take advantage of. But to not turn it over, we need to go in that direction. We've been screwing it up for the last few weeks.

It was a tough game the whole time. These guys have been kind of on a roll, feeling pretty good about themselves, and for good reason, they've been putting some games back to back. They were very confident and played that way. So for us to finish like we did, I thought it was really impressive to see our offense finish scoring the last three times we had the ball. Geno did a fantastic job of leading us down the field, and the guys in Tyler and DK made the big plays in there with a couple of cool runs by the young guys.

I thought that was just a really impressive way to finish the game. Again, we saw Kenny Walker have a big factor that he played in the game with a huge catch and run, 60-something yards, whatever, was an enormous play that we needed to break out just to kind of get going.

But I thought there was a lot of things that felt normal for us. We played really hard in the fourth quarter, even though we couldn't get that last stop on defense, and we did what we needed to do in offense and got to game one. They had two big plays in this game that are amazingly similar. They're the almost exact same scenario of what happened, and that was the difference in the game for them. And those two plays, I mean, I have not seen that happen once, let alone happen a couple of times in the same scenario, but something we can certainly fix that doesn't have to happen again, and we can get that out of our football. Jason Meyer had a great day today, not just the five field goals, but the five field goals under pressure. He needed some pressure kicks today, and Chris Stoll and Mikey came through with him to function just perfectly, to get the kicks done, and that's a great day for Jason. We're going to need him all the way down the stretch. This is a good game for his confidence and just the boost, reminding us who he is. So a lot of cool things today. And Leonard had his first sack as a Seahawk. That was fun. Moffat continues going. I don't know, does he have a record going here or something like that?

Seven straight. I don't know how the heck he can do that, but he's doing it, and I'm really proud of him. As we've talked about him so much during the season about his growth and really the transition from year one to year two, it's obvious. He's playing with the big boys now. He's up in there and having a chance to really put together a great season. He's already had a terrific season, so really fired up for him in that regard. I'm sure I forgot somebody to talk about here, but this was a big deal for us. It's a big deal after last week to come back and play good football and play hard. We came right back and played the way we've been playing the last six weeks, from start to finish, playing tough and hard, and they haven't been all pretty wins all the way, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the way we finished today and the attitude and their resolve about getting this win done, and that's going to help us right down the stretch. So we turn the corner, here we go.

SPEAKER_2 (3:01)

What did you think of Geno on those last two drives?

Pete Carroll (3:03)

I thought he was almost perfect, all but maybe was perfect. The throws he had to come up with, the calls, the poise, the cadence, running the club, the whole thing, he was perfect. I thought he was just exactly what we would hope we could see in him. I'm sure he had great numbers today. He must have had terrific numbers. But more than that, he just came through, just like we're counting on him. So our third downs weren't quite good enough, but we were close, and we got to keep working to get those better.

You guys don't get a chance to see how poised he is, how calm he is. We talked just before the last time. We said, if we got to go to overtime, we'll go to overtime. Let's make great decisions here. He was totally in tune with what we were talking about, and he just picked away and knocked us right down the field.