Pete Carroll may know how to coach a team to the Super Bowl but he needs to stay the hell out of the official’s way.
When the Seattle Seahawks go, they go hard. It’s the Pete Carroll way, and no game is unimportant to the overall arc of the season. While the first preseason game of the year doesn’t count for a single thing, try telling that to Pete Carroll when he’s had his daily fill of caffeine.
That’s the version of Carroll we typically see on Sunday’s, and that was the version of the head coach that showed up for the Seahawks first preseason game of the year on Friday night. The only problem was, no one informed the officials that Carroll was so fired up, thus we ran into a little bit of a problem when those two worlds collided — literally.
Carroll was so busy celebrating a preseason touchdown that counts less than a batting practice home run, that he was trucked by the side judge.
It’s hard to not think of the Mike Tomlin incident when you see something like this, and we wouldn’t put it past Carroll to do that to win even a fake game of football. That’s not the case though, as Carroll was truly just way too amped up for a preseason touchdown and paid the price he deserved.
This also ended up being a penalty on Carroll for sideline interference, but it didn’t wipe out the touchdown scored by Lockett.
Never change, Pete. Never change.
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