Pete Carroll: "We Had So Much Fun Tonight"

Pete Carroll (0:00)

Oh, we had so much fun tonight. Golly, that was fun playing football.

One of the first things that comes to my attention is the guys that continue to step up and play for other guys. I don't know, we had a mix mash thing going on in the offensive line again, but it's been three weeks of it, and I'm so proud that we have guys that can answer the call and play at the top level and give us a chance to compete in these games. But it's not just that spot though, it's other places too, and a bunch of guys played on the pass rush today. Everybody figured in on the pass rush today, which was great. But it just reminds us that we're just getting started. We're just getting going. We're just putting it together. And a night like this for our defense to be able to play that explosively and three turnovers and whatever, double digit sacks. I can't remember seeing double digit sacks.

It's so important to us as we move into this, you know, we're finishing like the first quarter of the schedule.

So with a lot of hope and looking toward the future and developing the young guys, keep seeing them able to play a role for us, just gives us the confidence that we're going to keep getting better. So we're not a finished product. We're just getting rolling. And it's really exciting to be able to tell you that because it feels like it. What I'm probably all together most proud of is how we played in the second half for the last three weeks. We played great football and got it going and cleaned up some of the stuff that happened in the first half of those games and we were able to put the game away. So that finishing mentality is really, really valuable to us and we're going to try to keep building on it.

SPEAKER_2 (1:33)

Did this feel like it was coming from Devin, this kind of game, with or without?

Pete Carroll (1:38)

I never thought he wouldn't play like this. This is the way we, this is why we took him to be active and to show that he could, he gets this game of football and it comes easy to him and he's an explosive, dynamic player. And we got to play him at nickel for the first time. You know, this was the process. We getting him back out there, we didn't have enough time, we thought, to have him ready.

Although he's been working at it the whole time and he just, he did a great job again tonight and you can see why we like him there.

So, and we're, you know, we didn't have, already tonight, we didn't have Trey Brown tonight. So, he had to do it all night long, you know, for us. And so it was a beautiful job. He showed me what he had.

SPEAKER_2 (2:14)

Sorry. How much does that suit his skill set being a little closer to the ball? We saw him blitz early on, just make it like.

Pete Carroll (2:20)

The play in the position, is if you compare it to playing corner, there's so many more things that happen. And there's guys on both sides of you, and you're not playing on the edge.

And there's runs and passes and blitzes and mixes of coverages and things like that. That makes it, you know, it's a position for a guy that can handle all of that naturally. And it is, a lot of this is natural skill and awareness that he could pick stuff up so soon and be so dynamic in there in short order. He's just gonna get better and better. And so, the really, really exciting, you know, thing to watch for us and so we'll keep going with it.

SPEAKER_4 (2:55)

You got six sacks today from linebackers and corners. How did you see the pass rush as a whole come to life and get them back?

Pete Carroll (3:03)

This was a great night for Clint and the guys on defense. The mixes and the change ups, the variety of ways that we came after them, used everybody on the field just about, and hitting the calls at the right time so the guys could, you know, create some explosive plays out of it. You gotta give Clint a ton of credit. And pass push isn't just the guys up front. It's everybody contributes to it. Coverage, and that's where the backers play a role in it as well.

And that was a great illustration of that tonight.

SPEAKER_5 (3:31)

The frustration for Jamal Adams, what did you have possibly said?