It’s sometimes hard to get a straight answer out of an NFL head coach and Pete Carroll is no different. Seattle Seahawks fans have had to wave goodbye to a couple of long-time favorite players this offseason, including starting quarterback Russell Wilson and defensive captain Bobby Wagner.
While some might call parting ways with the arguably the most important offensive and defensive players “rebuilding,” Carroll has chosen to look at it in another way . . . instead of a tearing down, it’s really more of a putting back together again.
“It’s the challenge, it’s the excitement, it’s the newness,” Carroll told Mike Salk of Seattle Sports radio this week. “The sense of the return to the core of where we began putting things together, where we really were wide open and really aggressive and all. As time goes, you get kind of connected to the salary cap and the cash cap and all that — you get slowed down a little bit, you don’t have as much freedom.
“So we feel the freedom of the draft picks, we feel the freedom of the financial situation, and the excitement of putting our team together again.”
The Seahawks haven’t been too splashy throughout free agency to date, so the 12s might have to wait until the 2022 NFL draft at the end of April to see if Carroll can put his money where his mouth is.
