Pete Carroll Tells Seahawks He Needs 'To Do a Better Job'

Filed under: Seahawks, NFC WestRENTON, Wash. -- Pete Carroll had his regular Monday morning postmortem with his coaches and players, and he started pointing fingers.

At himself.

Carroll said later: "I need to do a better job.''

"Today's a day for telling the truth,'' Carroll said after looking at the game film of Sunday's 27-20 win over San Diego.

And the truth was that the Seahawks were fortunate in some ways to beat the Chargers. Seattle wasn't good in the red zone and the Seahawks gave away points at the end of the first half because of play-calling decisions.

In the end, the Chargers made more mistakes and that saw the Seahawks through.

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said Carroll's mea culpa was part of the overall philosophy the coach brought with him from his tenure with Southern California.

"I think one thing that's important is for coaches and players to feel like they are on the same team,'' Hasselbeck said after Monday's session. "The coaching staff has done a nice job in a short period of time building relationships and trust.

"When he says that in front of the whole team, the coaches and that staff, that's something.''

Carroll said the overall success he had in nine years at USC may be playing against him now in Seattle, a team that is 2-1 this year after having won just nine games total the last two seasons. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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