Pete Carroll on the fumble

Pete Carroll on the fumble:

(On did he hear from the NFL about the Richard Sherman fumble recovery at the end of the game) Yes, as a matter of fact, I got a call from them this morning—just to see if I had any questions about it. What I was concerned about was—it was such a crucial moment in the game. It was such an unusual situation, why wouldn’t they take all the time that they needed to make a clear cut decision. They felt like, from the looks that they had, that they wouldn’t be able to determine anything—more than what was called and they couldn’t say if it was right or wrong either because they couldn’t tell. So they saw that the ball was underneath Sherm and he had it right there, but they didn’t feel like he had control of it from what they could see. So they kind of agreed with the way it went. I just made the point that really the decisive play, at the end of the game—why would you not take all of the time. It seems like that happens in the college game; they’ll stop the game and they’ll take a look and they’ll investigate further, but based on what they saw, they feel like what they had concluded that they weren’t going to be able to help the situation any so that’s why they did it. I hope it brings awareness to the situation because it’s the last play of the game, what’s the rush—let’s figure it out?

(On did the Rams defend the two point conversion well) Yes, they did. They defended where we wanted to go—they did a nice job. They kind of hopped in front of the route a little bit. We just got off the side we thought we could hit and so Russell [Wilson] had to come back and try to find something and couldn’t come up with anything.

(On him being worried about Russell Wilson getting injured being more active in offense) Yes—always. He’s great at it, he understands, but he got smacked on a throw that; I can’t believe wasn’t something involved with a call there, but that was the biggest hit that he took. He got tackled a couple times—more than we want. He has a great consciousness about it—he knows how to stay out of trouble. We do not want him in that situation at all so we would discourage him at every turn but get on the ground; anything but getting on the ground is what we need—get out of bounds, get on the ground as soon as you can. He does a great job of that—he’s not trying to run anybody over.

(On the 2nd half performance looking more like his offense) I think so that’s why we’re encouraged by it. We saw the whole run mechanism work together—Marshawn [Lynch] drew a lot of attention. Marshawn had a couple calls called back, runs that would’ve given him significant yardage in the game. His factor allow Russell [Wilson] to get out a little bit on the edge and then the third down situation in the 2nd half, was four out of five in the 2nd half, was very sharp and that’s the way we like to look—much more in the direction we’re hoping to go.
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