Pete Carroll: I Don’t Always See Eye To Eye With Officials

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll insists quarterback Russell Wilson was ready to go in Sunday’s loss against the Packers.

Russell Wilson went 20-of-40 for 161 yards and two interceptions after a month’s absence. As a result, the Seahawks lost the game 17-0.

However, Pete Carroll deflected attention from his signal-caller onto the officiating of the game. According to Carroll, the referees were poor on two big plays involving Russell Wilson.

“As you look at the game, he wasn’t as sharp as we wish he would have been,” Carroll said. “But neither was the other guy.”

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“Everybody missed passes and stuff. So there was some conditions and stuff that play into that. I know everybody wants to go ahead and chase this whole thing about Russell wasn’t ready to play. He was ready to go and he did everything he needed to to get that done, and it didn’t come out as clean as we needed to in a lot of areas of our football — not just him.”

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“They (the officials) were such a big part of the game yesterday,” Carroll said. “They were a huge part of the game yesterday. So in an effort to try to make sure that we’re really on the same page and we’re working through it and we call the game together in a sense, you work at it during the course of the game. 

“I’ve known some of these guys for a long time and they always show respect and I try to show respect, too. They’ve got a job to do and we’ve got a job to do, and we’ve got to figure it out. We don’t always see eye to eye, that’s for darn sure, and that happened yesterday.”