Pete Carroll 2020 Week 4 Monday Press Conference

Opposing completion rate is 83.3% against Tre! He might as well not even play at those rates! No one is going to take him in a trade.

@Joe Lee to be fair tho, i was shocked they had tre on devante parker for most of the game, that was brutal haha

@mArked4death 07 Technically, we play zone, so Miami matched Devante on Tre. Their strength against our weakest player. Unfortunately Ken Norton is not much of a D coordinator to be able to adjust. He seems to only know LB position, not defensive scheme.

@Joe Lee Seattle is not going to move one corner to another side, they have never done that. Seattle as you said plays zone, not man. That’s how they play and what they have done for years. Very little changes have occurred over the years that Pete has been our coach. Pete is credited for inventing the Seattle cover 3 zone, he picks defensive coordinators to run his scheme. He will not let Norton run anything else, that’s what they play primarily.

With that said the biggest changes we have seen have come lately with the addition of Jamal Adams. His blitz rate is about 33%. When Kam played the same strong safety position he rarely blitzed. And traditionally in the Seattle cover 3, teams rely on their front 4 and rarely blitz. Usually the biggest wildcard or question about the cover 3 is what the free safety decides to do. Earl was able to cover a lot of ground and made it difficult for defenses to know where he would be exactly. Adams even though technically a strong safety is playing a sort of Earl Thomas role, but instead of running around robbing routes he is blitzed more. Teams are unsure of what he will do before the snap, and this makes Seattle much different than in previous years. More unpredictable.

Also Seattle is changing coverages some and not playing cover 3 every snap. Although they played it safe with Jamal out last week and played cover 2 the whole game…hence no big plays were given up.

@Glow 44 The main reason we are blitzing more is the lack of pass rush. Without the blitz, like game against Miami which has one of the weakest O-line we will face this year, only managed 1 sack and hand full of pressures. Good coaching is about understanding the strength and weakness to make the most of the opportunity and make adjustments. That is what is happening with the offense this year. When we have a glaring weakness on one side of the ball where the CB is giving up 83.3% completion rate, adjustments have to be made. Doing exactly same thing over and over and expecting different result is insanity!
Pete did not invent the cover 3 zone, but that worked when your talent on defense was better than the opposing talent in the offense, and with assumption that the pass rush can also pressure the QB to release the ball early. Without a pass rush, you can’t effectively play zone! With no pass rush, all the offense has to do is to over load one side for deep crossing middle because the WR gets time to find the soft spot. When we do blitz, it leaves an opening on his side, where they can take advantage if they pick up the blitz. Pretty much all of the good teams have figured this out. Hence look at where our Defense has ranked last 2-3 years, and continue to get worse year over year.
Also Seattle has played man with Sherm following a receiver, but only on specific situations.

Yeah! Can’t they put a limiter on this audio or something? Crank it up like the way us 12’s like it!

Lol, I couldn’t hear anything in my truck listening to the post-game yesterday

Yes lol

Your stuck on a husky sled in the middle of a blizzard. One of your dogs isn’t pulling his weight. Do you complain and shout insults at the slacking husky and remove him from the sled, or do you try and encourage him? It’s not like there’s other huskys just lying around to replace him… I say this because It’s not like there’s big time corners waiting to be signed by the Seahawks on the cheap!

Thomas Baldwin anyone else but tre. Give one of the practice squad guys a try. Look at Ryan Neal and his emergence

Ryan Neal is ready

@Verified Mamba agreed, i think we had to play him tho this last week. Should change this Sunday tho

@Thomas Baldwin linden stephens

Yes! My thought exactly.

Dunbar has been playing great, and he’s likely going to be back before or at the same time as Jamal, why would we bench him?

@Avery Jones true

Cousins is not that short. I think you are thinking of the Cardinals or another team.

Yeah Cousins is 6’3 lol

Yeah I know I accidently skipped a game. Thanks

@T M 😂

Agreed!