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Larry Stone: Pete Carroll will have to take coaching to new level vs. 49ers in playoffs

RENTON, Wash. — After Sunday's victory over the Rams, Seahawks veteran linebacker Bruce Irvin offered what might be the best explanation ever given about coach Pete Carroll's ability to get his players to buy into whatever lofty vision he's selling.

"Pete has a way of getting you in here, and he looks at you with those blue eyes, and it feels like he's looking through your soul," said Irvin, who played on Seattle's Super Bowl championship team in 2013 and returned to the Seahawks for the second time this past October.

"You'll be like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' But as soon as Pete lays those blue eyes on you, you kind of melt. You're like, 'Oh, yes sir, yes sir.' "

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