Pete Carroll: "We Really Have To Get Our Game Right"

Pete Carroll (0:05)

Needless to say, we're really disappointed with our night last night.

I say this to you, it's so hard when you have opportunities like that, and you know it's clear and so much to gain, and then you don't get to accomplish what you want to, so you miss that shot. And sometimes those shots don't come back. But we didn't play well early in this football game, and you could see it on both sides. We weren't as clean as we needed to be against a really good club, and they took advantage of it, and they got out ahead, and it took us a while, and then we started moving it, and we started stopping them. We got some plays done, some big plays happened, and there was the energy of the game showed up with the chance to come back and get in it. Then the opportunities become so crucial that you max them out, and we missed our chance to score down there, we wanted to put us within a touchdown, and that part of it was just, and didn't know it at the time, we kind of overlooked the thought at the time that we still have our chance to come back, but we missed our op. And so, we're looking really hard at it. We have to maximize our people, and we've got to make sure that we're putting them in the best positions for them to contribute so that we can make our momentum felt earlier in the game. And we've had some really good game starts. This wasn't one of them. This was about as tough as we could make it on ourselves. So, a lot to put back in the bottle here.

Having a full week seems like a month compared to what we just went through. And we got to have a great week in preparation. We're going against a crazy opponent that's doing great streaks and numbers and stats and all kinds of stuff supporting their success. So, we got to really get our game right. And so, that's what we're going after. And we're going to do it as aggressively as we can. And I got to make sure that I get us on all cylinders better than we did. I'm taking, as always, I'm going to take full account for this. I got to make sure that we all are firing better than we have. So, that's what we're going to get done.

Yeah, well, we have to be more efficient throwing football to compliment, you know, our third down opportunities. This continues to be a sad story. We're three of 11, we need to be six of 11, and then the whole game seems different. You know, so it's a few plays of execution, and I want to make sure that we're maximizing the personalities, you know, and make sure that we're using our guys as well as we can use them, and that's a focus for us.

Make sure that we're choosing the best routes for the guys, that we have unique talents, and we've got to make sure that we're maximizing that. I feel like we're not. I feel like we're not seeing stuff. You saw the playmaking of Jackson again last night, you know, and he continues to show stuff that separates him from others, and we just need to give him more chances. We've got guys in different areas of our game that can do stuff, I think, better. Our tight ends could be used better than we've used them in the last couple of weeks, and so we need to get that going again. We have some real positives. We just got to make them come to life. When you were evaluating that, are you talking specifically about last night's game or are those the trends that you're seeing? I think that has the best chance at moving us ahead and making us go forward, just looking at what's happened in the past year.

Yeah, we went after them right off the bat again. We've been pretty aggressive early. I'm not sure what Spoon's talking about, but it needs to feel more, you know, more impact. We need to feel the impact of the shots that we take and make sure that we're maximizing those, because we made some fundamental mistakes that you make in games. This team takes total advantage of it, and they did it. We missed a backside chase on the play, and it goes for 23 yards on us or whatever it was. And that's just as fundamental as ball gets. But we flashed and thought we saw a bootleg coming back. We didn't. We just needed to play the run right. And so those little things allow you to show aggressiveness and show your attack. And when they're not there, you give them momentum. So there's a big swing that happens there.