Las Vegas - 40
Seattle - 34
O.T.
PETE CARROLL: For us, we had our chances to win the football game. They were obvious, so clear. You all know them. To give them the opportunity to stay in there and hang in there, they've been hanging, they've been in close games all year long. Nothing different for them. They get the big play to win the thing, which isn't really the statement of the game. It's a good deal for them, for Josh.
I'm going to go back to everything we look at this film, we're going to see the opportunities that got away from us that we just didn't take care of. We did some things in the game we wanted to on defense to try to slow down Devante and take him kind of real seriously.
We gave up way too much in the running game. We did not play the run worth a darn in getting that done. We didn't rush the passer as well as we needed to either.
That's just what happened in this game. I give them credit. They outplayed us and got their win. But it's really frustrating because the game was there to be won. The fumble that we had going in, we get the stop on fourth down, big stop on fourth down, get the ball around midfield, we don't get a first down there.
You can look at it both ways. Everybody was involved in this thing. We're not going to say a whole lot about it, not going into detail, but we'll deal with it in the next couple days.
Q. What did you think the major issues were with defending their running game?
PETE CARROLL: They did a good job, stayed committed to it. They had a couple big plays, big play after the turnover, the one obviously at the end.
They did a good job.
Q. Did the attention that you were paying to Adams and the game plan there come at the expense of run defense at all?
PETE CARROLL: That's what I'm saying, yeah. Somewhat, yeah. We did a lot of stuff to keep him out of the ballgame. Remember, had those 40 something targets coming in the last few weeks. Had 10 or 11 of them today. A lot of the ball goes to him.
Josh was really terrific today. He had a great game. We didn't tackle him as well as we needed to, didn't scheme him as well as we needed to.
Q. What are you seeing from the run game last couple games?
PETE CARROLL: Not consistent like we had wanted it to be. Those guys, they did a nice job up front, got in the backfield on us a number of times. We really were inconsistent picking things up front.
That running output is not getting us what we want in terms of balance. That's not what we're looking for. Geno threw the ball well today, got some good yards a lot of completions and all that, which was good. We need the balance to play the way we want to play. We couldn't find that today.
It was enough to score 27 points, but we can do better. I can tell you, every aspect of our game we didn't do well today, well enough. It goes right to me. I'm the one that's got to get this stuff organized so it fits together and fits right.
I'm really disappointed that we're sitting here talking about a game we didn't win, because that was a game we should have won, could have won.
Q. What does that process look like for you now?
PETE CARROLL: I got to clean some stuff up. I've got to make sure that things fit well and precisely, we get out of balance with how much we're having to throw the football, how much we were playing for the throwing game, on defense, the other side, I think we can balance some stuff up. I got to help out.
Q. From a big picture, how frustrating is it to have the line of scrimmage go their way?
PETE CARROLL: That's kind of what happened on this day, yeah. It's really disappointing. That's not the way we want to play.
Q. What happened with Ryan Neal there late in the game?
PETE CARROLL: He's got an injury to his elbow. Couldn't tell us what it was at this point. We don't know yet.
Q. What were you told on the apparent fumble by Josh Jacobs down there?
PETE CARROLL: That they stopped the play for forward progress. You can't challenge a play when they have forward progress involved.
It means he got hit, they stopped the play, the ball came out. He fumbled the ball, all that kind of stuff. We saw that.
They have to make the decision of how to do that. That's the way they called it. There was no way we could challenge the play.
Q. How did you see Ken kind of battle through the game?
PETE CARROLL: He battled. He battled. He had some terrific plays. He got hit a lot before he got going. We couldn't get him started consistently today.
Q. The touchdown that Homer had, talk about his growth.
PETE CARROLL: Yeah, it was a really nice play. It was a good execution to get the first down first of all. But to finish it like that, that was a terrific run for him.
He's a heck of a football player. Tough as nails. He comes through whenever he gets his chances.
Q. Were you surprised they overturned the catch?
PETE CARROLL: The one to DK?
Q. Yes.
PETE CARROLL: Yeah, I was. Both of the guys on the side, the refs on the side, they saw it as a clean catch. I didn't see the replay. I understand they were talking about the ball got moved after he slid out of bounds. You got to survive the ground. That's what they're trying to determine there.
They were clear it was a catch on the side, so they were surprised it got turned.
Q. Is that a play that doesn't even get challenged or reviewed out of two minutes? Is that something more common?
PETE CARROLL: What do you mean than doesn't get challenged?
Q. Outside of two minutes, you just move on.
PETE CARROLL: It's a good point because, I mean, they were adamant about the catch that it probably never would have got to that, so...
In that regard, yeah, we got bit on that one.
Q. (Question regarding a common thread.)
PETE CARROLL: What's different in the last two games, they stayed in regular personnel, used the fullback. More unique than other games we played.
That was a problem for us again. It's old style ball. There's nothing new about that at all. It's just that it's different and we didn't adjust to it in either of the last two weeks.
Q. What did you think of Geno's game overall?
PETE CARROLL: We made a mistake on the route. It didn't look right. He probably shouldn't have thrown the ball at all because we errored downfield in the route.
We got a good call on the ball in the end zone when we got the kick the field goal on third down, fourth down. But he did a terrific job again. I thought he threw the ball well, ran well, had a huge scramble for a first down, a huge scramble to Homer for a first down when we were behind the stick. Those were enormous plays for us in the game. He continues to make stuff go. I thought he played very well.
Q. What did you see on the flea flicker play?
PETE CARROLL: They did a really good job. Hollins comes down and cracks the safety, and the corner reacts to the crack. Then he releases. It was really well-executed.
We had some push on the line of scrimmage, bringing some guys on that play. The execution by their end was better than ours. But it works out sometimes he doesn't get the chance to show that block, so the corner would stay on him. It was really well done by them.
Q. Do you feel you're getting the push you need from your interior linemen on defense?
PETE CARROLL: It's not that easy. It's the fits. It's all of the support and stuff we do from the back end as well.
We have to play better than we're doing against the two-back stuff. It couldn't be more obvious. It's as obvious as it gets. Something we'll take care of.
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