Pete Carroll got his first September home loss as the coach of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
It wasn't pretty either, literally and figuratively. Before the game, Carroll was hit with a football spiraling to his nose. A bandage covered the mess — kind of –, but it couldn't hide the mess of the team that sputtered out of the gate.
In the end, Seattle lost to the New Orleans Saints 33-27; that point tally, on Seattle's side, is bloated due to garbage time scores. Carroll admits his team had a hard time getting out of their own way.
“Just had a really hard time getting out of our own way,” Carroll said after the loss, via Liz Mathews of USA Today. “Sometimes a day goes like that and you just can’t get out of your own way. You make the mistakes that cause the problems and you try to recover, and we just didn’t get it done.”
The Seahawks were sloppy. Their last play of the first-half epitomized that as Russell Wilson found D.K. Metcalf deep with seconds left. While Carroll may not have been able to call a timeout, many believe he could have. In general, that was just part of a bad day for the coach.
“I had a particularly bad day,” Carroll went on to say. “There’s too many chances I had to make some things happen. I tried too hard at times and kind of got in the flow of it. Just really disappointed. Just really disappointed across the board.”
Carroll will get the opportunity to bounce back from his bad day next week when they face the 0-2-1 Cardinals in Arizona. The odds are on them to win and move to 3-1.
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