Pete Carroll's tenure as Seattle Seahawks head coach ended on Wednesday, closing a 14-year chapter that saw him lead the team to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances.
With Carroll stating in his press conference after the Seahawks' final regular season game that he still wanted to coach, to then a few days later be moved on, it was certainly an odd turn.
But Carroll has revealed that he knew the changes that needed to be made and wanted to make them, but it was how he and the organization saw those changes being made that led to the split.
"OK, what is the essence of the adjustments that are necessary? That's where maybe we don't see eye to eye on, because I see it one way and I think I've got a way to fix it and I'm not going to kind of halfway fix it; I'm trying to fix it so it's perfect," Carroll said via ESPN.
"They may not see that that's the right answer or that's not the answer that makes them feel good. The difficult part is, if you guys could know, it's really hard because they're not football people. They're not coaches, and so to get to the real details of it is really difficult for other people."
Interesting. Now, the Seahawks will be tasked with replacing Carroll, who brought so much good to the organization.
Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn looms large as the favorite given his ties to the organization back in the Legion of Boom days, but expect the process to be thorough.
Seattle barely missed the playoffs after making it last season in the first year of the post-Russell Wilson era. Now, 12 months on, Carroll also departs as there is a changing of the times happening in Seattle.
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