Pete Carroll previews Seahawks’ Week 8 matchup against Lions
Oct 26, 2018, 10:19 AM | Updated: Nov 9, 2018, 9:36 am
Pete Carroll's Seahawks hit the field for voluntary workouts this week. (AP)
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The Seahawks are back into the swing of things for Week 8 with a road game against the Detroit Lions (3-3) on Sunday, Oct. 28.
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Head coach Pete Carroll joined KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson to preview the Seattle’s matchup.
Here are a few highlights from Monson’s interview with Carroll. The full interview will air at 12:30 p.m. on 97.3 KIRO.
It sounds like this is the healthiest the team has been all year. Did you find that to be the case in practice this week? “Yeah, and really just judging from the practices this week, not only are we kind of healthy, but we’re stronger. You can see the break really made a difference. It’s exactly what you hope would happen. You get some time off, can you get your legs back a little bit? It really looks like that. Hopefully we’ll play in accordance and all that. But we were fast all week long, we really were holding guys back and kind of slowing them down at times because they felt so good they were practicing so fast, we thought maybe we were overdoing it a little bit. So it was great work.”
Detroit quarterback Matt Stafford has a running back, a great wide receiver corps — what a great challenge for you guys: “Yeah, they look really good. And they really couldn’t have looked more explosive than they did against Miami in this last game. And they’ve had impressive wins. They really, really outplayed New England in all phases. Matt (Patricia) did a great job getting his team ready and took care of business against them. Beat the Packers, got way out ahead of the Packers, the Packers came back on them a little bit but (the Lions) just played really good football. This is a team that’s ready to move. They’re very much like us; we started slowly and then we picked up some momentum. So it’s a great matchup for us. It’s in their place and they’ll be fired up. We need these kinds of challenges. You hear me say that because we have to play teams that are really strong and well-equipped and beat those teams so that you can move ahead and get better yourself.”
In your personal interactions with Paul Allen, what are the life lessons you learned that you’ll carry with you for the rest of your life? “I think one of the most obvious things, Dori, is here’s a guy that wound up in all the good fortune and the wisdom and all that brought him tremendous wealth, he had a big choice in how he’s gonna handle that. Not to compare him to anyone else, but what he chose to do is to reach out do as much as he could for the world around him, and for the people that he loved and believed in. He just continued to compete to find ways to do good stuff. I just found it’s so admirable… that he became more and more benevolent and a philanthropist as he grew older and he just continued to expand the horizons of what he could touch and reach in positive ways, and he never backed off it… he found time to enjoy, but the focus of his life really seemed to be what he could do to create a better life for others, and that’s an incredible gift.”
