RiverDog
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I had a hard time believing that this article was from yesterday, not a year ago, and I had to double check the date. I've edited out a lot of the comments so feel free to check out the entire article if you think that I'm missing some sort of context. Here's what Pete said following last night's ass kicking:
Fast forwarding to the first meeting between the Seahawks and 49ers this season on Thanksgiving night, even on the heels of a disappointing road loss to the Rams last Sunday, Carroll earnestly believes his team stacks up better against their rival than they did when they were swept a year ago.
“I like where we are and what we’ve done coverage wise and system wise," Carroll said on Monday. "This team really does check you out and they’ll check out your scheme. We give them (Niners) a lot of credit and have a lot of respect for them. But I feel like we’re much farther along than we were (last season).”
“We're much cleaner coverage wise and were much more consistent at the line of scrimmage than we were in our fits and all of that," Carroll remarked. "We’ve cleaned it up and very demanding of how precise we need to be in it, and it’s worked out. We’ve had pretty good results.”
"It’s just a really difficult team to deal with, but teams have figured it out. They have found them out. They were able to get them. We understand that; they’ve got three losses and we’ve got four losses. This is a huge opportunity for us.”
https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/news/se ... isco-49ers
He thinks that we're "much further along", that we've "closed the gap", and that we've had "pretty good results"? Did he watch the same game that I did? I used to half-jokingly say that Pete could paint a smiley face on the worst of situations, but these comments really take the cake. Does he truly believe them himself or is he just trying to motivate his team at a time that they must be feeling pretty down?
Fast forwarding to the first meeting between the Seahawks and 49ers this season on Thanksgiving night, even on the heels of a disappointing road loss to the Rams last Sunday, Carroll earnestly believes his team stacks up better against their rival than they did when they were swept a year ago.
“I like where we are and what we’ve done coverage wise and system wise," Carroll said on Monday. "This team really does check you out and they’ll check out your scheme. We give them (Niners) a lot of credit and have a lot of respect for them. But I feel like we’re much farther along than we were (last season).”
“We're much cleaner coverage wise and were much more consistent at the line of scrimmage than we were in our fits and all of that," Carroll remarked. "We’ve cleaned it up and very demanding of how precise we need to be in it, and it’s worked out. We’ve had pretty good results.”
"It’s just a really difficult team to deal with, but teams have figured it out. They have found them out. They were able to get them. We understand that; they’ve got three losses and we’ve got four losses. This is a huge opportunity for us.”
https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/news/se ... isco-49ers
He thinks that we're "much further along", that we've "closed the gap", and that we've had "pretty good results"? Did he watch the same game that I did? I used to half-jokingly say that Pete could paint a smiley face on the worst of situations, but these comments really take the cake. Does he truly believe them himself or is he just trying to motivate his team at a time that they must be feeling pretty down?
