Pete Carroll: "We Couldn't Get It Done"

Pete Carroll (0:05)

Well, this was about as unfamiliar as we can get here, coming out here to East and playing a game on the road like this and then not being able to play football where we need to. It was a terrific day for them.

John had his team ready to go, and they did a great job. They kind of waited until there were some opportunities, and they took advantage of them. Game kind of went back and forth for a while there early, which kind of, we thought it could happen. And then we didn't handle what happened right before the half very well. And didn't take advantage of the turnover that we had. And so instead of winding up 14-6 or 14-10, you know, they get the ball back, and they get points, and it just wasn't the right way to finish the half for us. And then they just, they went to work, and we didn't stop them. And we couldn't make any first downs and couldn't convert on third down. And so it's just a really hard, long day against a really good team. And they took it to us. So I got to give them a lot of credit.

Well, we have to convert on third downs, which is everybody. We got rushed today pretty good now. They rushed us and mixed their stuff really well. It was hard, like they've been on everybody. But we just have to find our ways to make first downs. But I think we were one for 12 on third down. You can't play offense like that and expect anything. It's as hard as it gets.

I don't think this is about Geno at all. That's what you know. I think this is about our football team did not answer the bell here. We couldn't get it done. And we came in here to slug it out and they did a better job than we did. It was all of us. When they're rushing the passer, that's not Geno. This is not a one guy deal here.

Yeah, I'm concerned about that. Yeah, I'm concerned about it. The one in the fumble, that's a pass rush deal, you know? The interception, they threw it up, and the guy that's been making all the interceptions has made another one, you know?

But that's not the direction for us to be going in.

Up until this game, it took us to first place, whatever the heck we've been doing, and we played like a first-place team today. So with those kind of turnovers, you can't. It's really hard to win. What was the running game?

Yeah, we couldn't tackle them in the second half. You know, we just didn't tackle them, and it shouldn't have been any different. You know, the big run that Lamar has early gives him, you know, a good boost in yardage, but then after that, it's just basic plays, and we didn't get him on the ground. And that's the part that I need to look at the most. That's one I'm most concerned about, the way that that happened like that.

SPEAKER_2 (2:43)

Coach, can you limit mental errors such as jumping offside on the fourth and one?

Pete Carroll (2:48)

Yeah, that stinks. That stinks. That's bad football.

SPEAKER_3 (2:50)

DJ Dallas, what happened to him?

Pete Carroll (2:55)

Hurt his shoulder. Yeah, I don't know how bad, but he hurt his shoulder.

You mentioned the interception.

SPEAKER_3 (3:01)

It looked like maybe there was miscommunication on that or between Geno and Tyler on that interception?

Pete Carroll (3:06)

No, he overthrew it. And I don't know.

Tyler didn't think he had a chance to get the balls on, though, but it wound up, you know, a really nice play by their guy. And, but I wish we would have contested it. I don't know that he could or not. I don't know how far overthrown it was, but I know he couldn't get to it.

SPEAKER_2 (3:26)

Can you, after a loss like this, just put it aside because it was that type of, the Bravens were so good and just turned the page?

Pete Carroll (3:34)

Yeah, what I'm telling our guys is this is about the discipline that it takes to go to the next challenge.

We talk always like that, whether it's a big win or a big loss or whatever the circumstance of what happened the week before. It's the discipline that it takes to move on. And so that's the challenge. This game's already over with and done. We can't do anything about this one. It's what are we going to do when we come back on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday to get back on track and not let this define us? I would like that this game was maybe a marker that this is where things shifted and we came right back and got back on track and we see us come back to who we are.