Carroll reacts to Seahawks expose

Sports Illustrated’s MMQB website published a long-researched expose late this week on the Seattle Seahawks. Specifically, revelations about how bitterness and angst — including considerable resentment by some defenders toward the perceived coaches’ favourite, QB Russell Wilson — actually had been simmering within the Seattle Seahawks locker-room for years, going back to what should have been their dynasty-clinching second consecutive Super Bowl win after the 2014 season.

On top of confirmation that some defenders never forgave head coach Pete Carroll and the offensive coaches for not handing the ball off to Marshawn Lynch from the one-yard line to likely win Super Bowl XLIX vs. New England, the story revealed far more damaging allegations.

Wilson could do no wrong in Carroll’s eyes, some Seahawks from that era told reporters Greg Bishop and Robert Klemko. Those players charged, anonymously, that Carroll went far out of his way to protect Wilson from the fierce internal competitiveness that supposedly was the hallmark of Carroll’s new NFL coaching brand.

Even worse, some unnamed players even suspect Wilson of being a locker-room rat, constantly spilling private thoughts shared among players in the locker-room to Carroll. Not a good look for either man, if true. On Friday, Carroll was asked by local reporters if he had any comments on the expose, and said this:

“No. Only that, obviously, I didn’t do a very good job of teaching. One of the main principles in our teaching is that we aren’t going to worry about what’s happened. All our focus goes to what’s coming right now. That’s the discipline that we learn and I just haven’t taught it well enough, because whether you win or whether you lose or whatever happens, we need to move forward and leave stuff behind and go. So, other than that, no. I don’t care about it.”