Field Gulls
“I still love Earl, he doesn’t love me” was one of the more notable quotes from Pete in his conversation with Marshawn Lynch and Michael Robinson.
It’s still taking some getting used to, but former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is now in charge of the Las Vegas Raiders. After running out the remainder of his Seahawks contract in an advisory role, Carroll jumped at the chance to return to coaching.
Carroll is slowly but surely doing more media rounds after staying out of the spotlight last year, and his latest stop is on Marshawn Lynch and Michael Robinson’s ‘Get Got Pod’ podcast. I must admit that Carroll is not the easiest person to transcribe (neither for humans nor AI), but I’ve pulled out some snippets of interest to Seahawks fans.
“I kind of keep track with everybody as best I can, and for those guys just to be available if they’ve got questions, they got thoughts, they got whatevers. I’m not expecting that I got any jewels of wisdom for them. I just want to support them and love them up as they’re going through it, but it was my gift—they gave the gift to me that to kind of just stay with them you know.
“What happened and what you guys know too, because we’ve been through this together and when we go through this thing together, you know there’s a connection that’s made that doesn’t fall away. It doesn’t go apart unless you’re talking to Earl [Thomas] or something like that. I still love Earl, he doesn’t love me.”
“There came a time late in that last season with about four or five games to go and I went into John [Schneider]’s office. I said, ‘John you know we’re coming up the end of the season here,’ and at the time we didn’t know you know how good we were going to do, because we won four or five of the last six or something like that.
“And I said, ‘You know there’s a lot of changes that are coming potentially, and you and I aren’t looking at these changes probably the same way.’ I thought we were really close [to contending], and I love Bobby [Wagner], and I love Quandre [Diggs] and [Tyler Lockett] and all the guys. I wanted to keep going with those guys and I knew that he was likely thinking differently (he was).
“I had always been in charge the whole time and I had always said to John that when I leave I’m hoping that I’ll be able to help you be the general manager and have this be your gig. So I said, “This may be that time. Maybe why don’t you talk to ownership and see if you’re sitting in the right spot where they would give you the chance to do that, then maybe it’s time for to move...
