“I told these guys I have no place in my brain for this outcome,” coach Pete Carroll said to begin his postgame press conference.
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is having a hard time wrapping his head around the fact the team’s season is now over. The Seahawks fell to the Los Angeles Rams on Saturday in the wild-card contest at Lumen Field.
“We were planning on winning and moving on and getting going and playing really good football and doing the stuff we need to do to win,” Carroll told reporters. “Their defense was really effective today. The two turnovers were really costly. That’s how it goes. You can look at our whole season and when we take care of the football and we don’t give it up, we win. Today, being down two, it’s really hard to overcome it. You can do it. We just haven’t.”
The Seahawks had high hopes this year after winning the NFC West and finishing with a 12-4 record. Entering the playoffs as the NFC’s No. 3 seed with a home game to start was promising as well.
“This season has been such an extraordinary year in so many ways and so much around us, and just all that has to do with life,” Carroll continued. “I’m really proud of these guys for hanging tough throughout the whole process of it, being so strict and regimented. To make it through this time as healthy as we did. We’ve learned a lot, and they’ve grown a lot in all that we had to come to understand. This football season, it was supposed to just keep going for us and that’s the way we were planning.
“Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get it done today.”
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