The Seattle Seahawks and Pete Carroll are moving on. After defeating the Philadelphia Eagles in the wild card round, they will travel to Wisconsin to face the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round. The winner moves on to the NFC Championship Game.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who has been to 16 playoff games in 10 seasons in Seattle, knows how to approach the big games. It's a challenge, one that takes managing his team and their mentality.

“The challenge really is the managing the players’ mentality,” Carroll told reporters Wednesday, via Liz Matthews of Seahawks Wire. “That’s the challenge to it. Keeping them balanced and clear thinking and not distracted by all the hoopla at the front of it and all that. There’s such a buildup when you go to each game. Each week is just so much fun because it’s so intense as you move through it that it’s managing that.”

The Seahawks are no stranger to the playoffs with Carroll as head coach. They have missed the postseason just twice under his tenure. He took them to the Super Bowl twice, winning once.

“That’s why I’m so adamant that we treat every game the same and we try to learn how to discipline our focus so that we don’t get distracted by the natural things that you guys all think should distract us; the matchups, the hype, the buildup,” Carroll said. “Whatever it is. How many times we’ve won, and they’ve won or whatever in years past. All that stuff, it doesn’t mean anything at all.”

The Seahawks and Packers will kick off on Sunday, Jan. 12, at 6:40 p.m. ET.