Pete Carroll: "We Have A Lot Of Work To Do"

Pete Carroll (0:03)

That was a really frustrating start for us. The Rams did really well. They took care of the ball and did a nice job. And I have a lot of respect for Sean and the job that he does, and they did a heck of a job today.

First half, we had the ball four times, and we got in a scoring position. We didn't get our touchdowns out of the drives, but we missed a field goal, and it felt like we were moving, and we were in control of that part of it. But the second half, we just couldn't get any first downs. We couldn't make the ball go.

And it got harder as the game went on, and we didn't do well. The other side of the ball, it was the third down disaster for us. You know, there were 11 for 17, and it's a great job by staff for him. He's just that good, but we gave him opportunities. We didn't get heat on him at all, and we needed to generate it. So I look at a little bit of misjudgment on my part that we would be able to do things we've been doing, and we'd be able to play a good football game, and it didn't work out that way. We needed to pressure him more and find ways to get the heat on him, to cover him up and get off the darn field.

So this is a really, it's a really challenge. It's a big challenge for us to bounce back and look what we're going against. You know, we're going to go against one of the hottest teams in the world right now, coming up in Detroit, and we'll see how that goes. But now it's about us, and digging back into it, because we've done a ton of the right stuff all the way throughout. I've been telling you that, how the preparation has gone. But when it matched up and it came time, we weren't able to get off the field like we thought we would be able to. And so the game goes their way. And they did a nice job of taking care of it, didn't give us a football other than the block kick. And that's enough to play a good football game if they could take care of the ball they did. So we got a lot of work to do.

Yeah, Charles got like a sprained big toe. And the x-rays didn't, from what I heard, x-rays didn't look bad, but we'll see. But he felt something. And so we had to look at him.

Abe's knee just acted up on him again. He doesn't have a knee injury.

He just, it's the same knee that we rested him on during camp. And it just got really sore during the game and he couldn't fire the way he needed to. And so we had to get him out of there. So I don't know what to tell you about that one.

SPEAKER_2 (2:18)

The half though, the first half, you guys seemed in pretty good shape.

Pete Carroll (2:22)

It felt like we had kind of felt that we gave up the first drive and then we got off the field the rest of the opportunities in the first half. And so it's 13 to seven and it looked like we were in a very good football game and we're ready to go. So we came out to go for it, to go for it, to win. You know, and play good football and be aggressive and all of that.

But we didn't execute the way that we had counted on. And so we didn't finish it the way we need to. And so that's really obvious and why that happened. We got to go back to work and figure it out, see what we can do to help our guys. And that's why I have a big role in this. I've got to make sure that I'm helping our guys on defense and making sure that the assessments that we make on offense, you know, we can count on better than we did. We just didn't execute like we thought we could.

That we didn't get, you know, we didn't pressure, we didn't blitz a lot. We did some, but he got rid of the football really well. We needed to, it's all aspects. We didn't cover him as tight as we needed to to get him to hold the football.

And we didn't rush him enough to disrupt him. And he's a great thrower. And if you give him that kind of time, he can tear you up. And he did, you know, he had a great day today.