Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll recently reflected on the team’s crushing Super Bowl XLIX loss to the New England Patriots.
Carroll said that staying strong in the wake of that loss was a tremendous challenge, but that he had to keep the team competitive somehow.
“It was such an emotional way to lose for everybody, and we had to rebuild everybody’s brain,” Carroll told NFL.com’s Mike Silver in April. “We just bludgeoned our way through that. I tried to just make sure that I was unwavering. So, that was the challenge: to allow for the grieving and all of that, and then see what the issues were, and then put it back together.”
Carroll admitted that some former and current Seahawks players may never put that devastating loss past them.
“Yeah, that was hard,” Carroll continued. “It was a hard challenge. It was really hard on some players. And some of us will never get over it.”
Nearly every player who played for Seattle in that Super Bowl is elsewhere now, so the Seahawks must look ahead to the 2020 season.
