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Seahawks: 8 notes from Pete Carroll’s press conference at the 2022 NFL Combine

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll just wrapped up his talk with reporters at the 2022 NFL Combine in Indianapolis.

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll just wrapped up his talk with reporters at the 2022 NFL Combine in Indianapolis.

Here are eight notes from that conversation.

Frustrated Pete Carroll calls post-game presser short, comes back, apologizes

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll walked out of his own press conference and then returned, apologized, and took more questions.

As it happens, I’m a Seattle resident and a longtime NFL reporter, which means that I got my first credential to cover a team in 2010. The team was the Seahawks, which means that I got to watch the Legion of Boom defenses get built as Seattle also stole a guy named Russell Wilson in the third round of the 2012 draft because everyone else thought he was too short. I happened to be on the field for both the Beastquake and the Fail Mary, and I’ve seen a lot in that time.

What I’ve never seen, as long as Pete Carroll has been the Seahawks’ head coach — he also started here in 2010 — was Carroll so frustrated after a loss that he simply blew off a post-game press conference. That happened Sunday night after Seattle dropped their seventh loss of the season against just three wins, and the 23-13 Cardinals win in no way represented the level of dominance Arizona displayed on the field. Seattle’s home field, to boot.

Even after Russell Wilson’s back-breaking interception at the end of Super Bowl XLIX against the Patriots, Carroll hung in with a massive cadre of reporters in front of him and answered every question posted. So, the level of hurt here had to be something else altogether.

To his credit, Carroll came back, apologized to the reporters in attendance, and placed the blame for his team’s season on his own shoulders.

Carroll, the eternal optimist, said that he still believes his team can turn things around, but the results on the field tell an entirely different story.