Pete Carroll: "We Have To Start Rolling Here"

Brady (0:00)

Hello, everybody, Jen, you're on the clock.

Jen (0:03)

Pete, when you look at yesterday's game, what is the most surprising element of that outcome?

Pete Carroll (0:09)

How obvious the big plays factored in. There was three huge plays in the game for their offense, and they all led the scores, and that's 21 to 28 So, and they were plays that we could have obviously really made much different on the defensive side.

The big run to start the thing, I'll set the field and, you know, tilt to the field. The third down long play, we have it defended.

And then the play that George Kittle on a play action passes, not a difficult play for us to defend, but we gave it to him. And so those plays really factored into the outcome of the game. I think along with that, the fact that there's 23, you know, explosive plays in the game, and they got 12, we got 11, was that's, it was a big play football game. And they had the better of it.

Jen (1:00)

What, if anything, changes about the messaging this week?

Pete Carroll (1:04)

We have to, you know, we've got four games at the end of the schedule here that makes up this really the old time fourth quarter of the season, and this is our shot. This is our shot to do something.

And we had our opportunity this past weekend. We didn't get it done to get it started, but we got to start a role here. And, you know, coming up on Monday night against a great team, you know, here we go. And so we're going to, we're going to face it, and we got to do something about it and to make something out of this year.

SPEAKER_5 (1:28)

Corbin.

Yesterday, you mentioned the big plays happening on familiar concepts that you guys have seen, nothing new from the 49ers. How surprised are you that that's happening in the passing game with the experience that you guys have at the safety position? Where do they fit in right now with those struggles?

Pete Carroll (1:46)

Well, one of them, you know, was in the safety area. The other one was in the corner.

It looked like, you know, it looks, it's hard for you guys to tell how things worked there, but I don't think it necessarily has to do with the safety position in general. I think we just got to make our plays. Those are just well-executed plays by them, but plays that we've seen, you know, we practiced and worked against. And so that's why I say it in the way I said it. Those are, there was nothing new about those things. We should just execute well in those situations. And we didn't.

Michael Sean (2:18)

Michael Sean.

Hey Pete, when you say Geno can't push off in one direction, do you mean like he can't like hitch up or he can't change direction? What do you mean?

Pete Carroll (2:28)

No, when he opens, when you have a groin injury for those athletics background guys, you know, and you push, you push one way or the other and away from the side of the groin that's sore, you can feel it, you know? So it can be, it can have to do with opening up and running. It can have to do with striding to throw, you know, changing direction and things like that. When you have to call on that side, it activates. And that's why you feel your groin when it's sore, you know? So, but he did quite a bit in pregame. So he did move around. He was testing it out and he kind of found the, you know, the parameters of what he could and couldn't do. And so we'll see, you know, how he comes back. These couple of days right here are just so valuable for him getting all the treatment he gets and then just the rest time and we'll come back. We don't practice again till Thursday, you know, so that we've got to break here.

We'll see what happens.

Michael Sean (3:19)

With Drew, if he has to play against Philly, what would you like to see him do better or different than he did on Sunday against San Francisco?

Pete Carroll (3:25)

Yeah, he did a lot of really good things. There was a couple of choices, you know, a couple of decisions in there that he threw the ball into coverage, didn't get the right throw on the big deep ball that he threw.

And the other one, he threw one into coverage that was really dangerous.

You can't fault him on the ball that gets tipped at the end. You know, that was a pass rush. But there's gonna be plays in the next game. There's plays for every quarterback on every game. You know, you wish you'd had that one back and you don't do that. So I think that was a pretty normal football game and him showing us what he can do and how he can make things happen and be comfortable in the moment and all of that. He was very poised about this in a most difficult situation. So I think that just bodes well for him, you know, down the road.