Thread by @mattyfbrown

Pete Carroll on the #Seahawks defense to PFT Mike Florio and Chris Simms:

"We’re in a transition of evolution for us that’s really, really exciting to me. And so we’ve mixed—I wanted to expand the things that we were doing in the secondary, and so we’ve done that." (1)

"And we need to hone in on it and make it come to life in a big way. I think there’s a lot of magic in what we’re doing right now. And we’ve got to put it together. And make sure that our players can express it," (2)

"that it fits them so that they can show what they’re capable of doing in a big way, in a consistent way with great confidence and commitment and all that. So that’s what we’re doing. And it’s an exciting time for Clint and I, as we’re working it out." (3)

As Carroll has said previously, Seattle focused on their secondary ideas, coverage concepts so much at the start of 2022 that it didn't quite fit what they had, were trying to do up front.

"We had years and years of great defense. Our guys fit the scheme so well that we didn’t have to do anything different. We just needed to let them play their game. And so that, if there was any genius in it, it was that." (1)

"Allowing Earl and Kam and Richard and Michael, and all those guys, Cliff, all those guys to do their thing in a way that, you know, you couldn’t deal with us. And the great expression was all the way, the Super Bowl we played against Peyton," (2)

"was really the height of demonstrating that. It was a game we played as basic, to the letter of what we had been doing the whole time. And forced them to restrict what they were doing. In that we were really able to play a great game against the best offense you ever saw." (3)

Seattle right now is kinda in the 2010/2011 stage of developing their coaching, scheme, and ideas to their growing young players and roster.

"We didn’t have that all together all the time, we grew to that. We’ve got to evolve to it again."