Pete Carroll challenges play that hurts Seahawks (Video)

Someone needs to take Pete Carroll’s challenge flag away and put it on the high shelf. 

The Seattle Seahawks are one of the best teams in the NFL when they’re firing on all cylinders, but a lot of the time they’re winning despite Pete Carroll’s cavalier ways.

Actually, ‘cavalier’ ways is generous, because that implies there’s some sort of positive end-game at play. Carroll lives by the seat of his pants and really doesn’t care what comes of it. That happened in Week 16 against the Rams, when Carroll challenged a play that he wasn’t going to win or benefit from in any way — like in the most obvious of ways.

Here’s the play in question, which features Russell Wilson clearly throwing the ball while past the line of scrimmage.

For some ungodly reason, Pete Carroll challenged that.

This is the type of thing we expect out of Jim Bob Cooter — not Pete Carroll. But then again, there isn’t a coach in the NFL who gives fewer sh–s than Pete Carroll and lets us know of that fact on a pretty regular basis. Remember, this is a man who both called that play at the end of Super Bowl XLIX and climbed up on the top of the lockers after a win a few weeks ago.

Those aren’t the decisions of a man concerned with logic, so we shouldn’t be all that surprised that he challenged a play that he wasn’t going to benefit from in any way.