The Seattle Seahawks' season has not gone as planned. First, Seattle underachieved to a 2-5 start, then quarterback Russell Wilson suffered a bad finger injury. Wilson returned much sooner than people initially thought and the signal-caller admitted that he wasn't 100 percent upon returning. Seattle head coach Pete Carroll spoke on the Wilson injury and the potential that he and the Seahawks mishandled it.

“The question would be ‘Did you bring Russ back too soon?’ … But he was ready to go,” Carroll told Mike Salk. “We were going on what we knew and I wouldn’t have changed that. He did an extraordinary, remarkable thing there to get that done, and we went with it and tried to ride the flow of that and hoped we would play well around him and help him out. I don’t think we did. We didn’t get that done. We weren’t as strong around him as we needed to be.”

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll feels that the team did the right thing with Russell Wilson. He's alluding to the fact that Wilson might not have been 100 percent but he and the team doctors felt that he was ready to play.

Only Wilson truly knows whether he should have been out there or not- and he's only going to give one answer to that. However, Carroll has a point in that the Seahawks didn't help Wilson enough.

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The Seahawks' running game, normally a strength, ranked 20th in the NFL. The offensive line was unable to protect Wilson, as he was sacked 30-plus times for the 10th straight year.

Pete Carroll is probably right that the Seahawks didn't do enough around Russell Wilson. And he's certainly right that Wilson will bounce back.

It just might not happen with the Seahawks.