Seahawks - 31, Dolphins - 23
PETE CARROLL: Really pleased to come this way and get a win, finish off the first quarter of the season as we have. So that's a good accomplishment for us. Really fired up about that. Probably most pleased after it's all over everybody got out of there pretty fit and all that. We didn't get anybody banged up today which is good and we get to move our way into the next game with everybody that was playing today. That's a good thing. It was a game we played off each other really well. We got turnovers, we got turnovers, we scored touchdowns. The two-minute work by the offense was beautiful. And on-side catch by Jake. Great play to make. Looked like Willie Mays making that catch right there. Really good solid football game, and really pleased to get the win and get the heck out of here.
Q. Coach, the way your defense kept more stuff in front of them this game, making the big plays, did you see some progress there?
PETE CARROLL: Yeah. We definitely did. Really, we kept them in front of us all day long and made them run their way down. I don't think they had a touchdown today, must have been pretty good in the red zone, keeping them out of the end zone. Really played well, backed up and got the job done, other than the one time I guess we scrambled in. Yeah, that's an improvement. Played some new guys that came through, did a nice job for us. Cody played today for the first time, got a full start for himself for the first time, and guys held up well.
Q. Pete, what does it say about Chris Carson to come back from that grueling-looking knee injury last week and to also get knocked out of this game in the middle of a contract year and just keep coming back and fighting for this football team?
PETE CARROLL: Everything was great on that question until you get to the contract year. I'm sure that makes a difference for you. Chris is a stud football player, and the man never backed down from anything. He told us when we got back on Wednesday, he said, I think I'm okay. I'm going to make it. We took it easy on him the first couple days and got him through the week and he looked great. It really helped us because Carlos couldn't go with a sore shoulder, and Chris ran really well today. It was 80 yards worth of good running. He's such a tough football player and a great competitor that that's not a surprise to us that he would bounce back and get back up. He took a hell of a shot and got back up and got right after it again. So he's a terrific football player.
Q. Pete, it looked like you guys scaled back the pressure a little bit this week with Jamal not being there. How did you see that play out with the way you wanted to work the back end as well and the way you guys kind of performed across the board with that?
PETE CARROLL: Yeah, this was just this game and this plan and what we needed to do to in keep front of us and all that, and it worked out fine. When you have Jamal on your team, he is such an extraordinary football player that you have to use his talents. And so just because (indiscernible) gets in that position doesn't mean it's going to happen. We just adjusted a little bit today. I thought we did a nice job. Cane did a really good job of putting it together so we could play a good winning football game.
Q. Can you describe what happened to Carson when he got knocked down and went into the injury tent and came back out?
PETE CARROLL: He was kind of getting over a guy and a guy really him really flush, hit him right in the chest and it was just a hell of a hit. And they didn't know whether he got his head hit or not, and so they went to check that out and that was all and it was a precautionary and he was okay. Both guys that went to the tent were released to come back to the game.
Q. The two plays Shaquill Griffin given made in the fourth quarter, the one in the end zone breaking up the pass and then the interception, that's the aggressiveness you've been looking for from the secondary, no?
PETE CARROLL: Yeah. He's been playing like that all along. He had a couple of plays in the first four games that weren't, but he's been playing really hard and aggressive and making his plays and going for the football and all that. That was a gorgeous play down there behind the goal line, and he's playing good ball now. He's doing a really good job. Two picks back to back? Come on.
Q. Pete, what did you see on that drive late in the first half when you guys kept the foot on the gas pedal and got that touchdown right before the half?
PETE CARROLL: That was a really good job by the offensive coaches wanting to go for it with 24 seconds left and 80 yards away or something like that. They were sold, that let's go give our guys a shot. Had a couple timeouts there; and has to happen in that drive, you have to hit something, and Russ found David up the side. It was a great play. He almost scored on it. And I really loved the opportunity we had the second, right there at the end of the half to get the plays we needed to get a touchdown. Fantastic. We work on that stuff a lot, and it's exactly the situations that we'd like to feel really comfortable in, and composed and rusted it beautifully and finished up with the ball to Homer. Also, I thought Russ played really good today. We dropped a couple of balls for whatever reason. I don't know why the balls got away from us. D.K. got one blasted out, and I think Tyler might have had one that he should have caught. Seemed like there was a couple, I don't know. But I thought Russ played great. And he handled the drive going down in there when the headset went out. He took the drive down and scored a touchdown, did a great job controlling the club there. He's just playing great football.
Q. What do you make of K.J.'s day? I know he's probably going to be bummed with himself that he didn't come away within interception, but he blew up a couple of screens, got his hands on a bunch of football, seemed like he was everywhere.
PETE CARROLL: Again, he had a really good game. He really had two picks in his hands, you know. And that's what will kill him because he knew he had the ball a couple times. But he's playing really good football. He shows you what instinct and savvy is all about. It's just remarkable and obvious that he's making plays on the other side of the field because he sees it happening, and he's making plays way in the back field on the screens and things, and it's really hard to get him on any of that stuff. That's experience, and he's just a great ball player.
Q. I wanted to talk about the first quarter of the season here. Can you talk about the rapport between Russ and D.K. and why that has been so successful right now?
PETE CARROLL: Well, yeah, first off, to get off 4 and 0 it's a great start for us and we're thrilled about that; as good as we could have done, and we still have a lot of good football to get better at. We all know that, and the players know that, and we're still working on improving and getting our game cleaner. About that, one of the things that's been really rock solid has been special teams. You just haven't seen a play there that hasn't been where it's supposed to be, how it's supposed to be played or handled, kicked deep, make our kicks and all of that stuff. It's been a fantastic start. Real steady part of our game right now. It's helping us stay consistent. That's important coming out of the first quarter. Russ has played spectacular. His work with D.K. really is a result of last season's experience, but then going into the summertime knowing -- both of them knowing what the potential was there for this relationship, and they went for it. I think D.K. lived with Russ for a month in the summertime. They kept sending us videos of them throwing and stuff like that what they were doing. And it just made so much sense to see them come back and just be on point because they worked so hard at it. So D.K. is an incredible football player, and so is Russell. And you put them together with Tyler, another get football player, and stuff just happens. You know, stuff happens. And it's because they're really good, and I think Schotty is doing a great job of utilizing our guys, and we're real pleased with what's happening so far.
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