Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll Not Going to 'Belly Ache' About Penalties vs. Dallas Cowboys
The Seattle Seahawks' 41-35 loss to the Dallas Cowboys had so much good about it as they gave one of the NFC's best teams all they could handle at AT&T Stadium.
But for all the good that Pete Carroll's team did, there was a huge blight on the game - penalties.
The Seahawks were flagged 10 times for 130 yards as the laundry flew thick and fast. Dallas was also flagged often, nine times for 127 yards, as both teams had issues.
But for Carroll, despite the Seahawks losing and having 10 penalties, he isn't about to start complaining.
“I'm not going to go belly ache about the calls, the penalties I'm not doing that it's just that was the night,” Carroll said. “We had to compete with the factors as it was, and they [Cowboys] did too. It's unfortunate that they were such a big factor in the game, it just I don't think it needed to be, but it just was, and so that's way this game went, and you know there was plays that were taken away and plays that were given because of the calls. That's just what happens sometimes it was just way too much involvement I just wish it wasn't like that.”
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll isn't going to complain about the number of penalties in the Cowboys game.
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With the loss, the Seahawks now drop to 6-6 this season, and one could easily envision a scenario where they toppled the Cowboys had it not been for three consecutive fourth-down stops by Dan Quinn's defense in the fourth quarter.
Now, the San Francisco 49ers loom large on the Seahawks' schedule, and Carroll's team can't afford to have the same number of penalties against a Niners squad that just embarrassed the NFL-best Philadelphia Eagles in a 42-19 blowout win on Sunday.
It will be tough enough to pull off an upset for Seattle if everything goes right, but if the laundry starts flying again, it will make the task that much tougher.
But if Seattle doesn't learn from the Dallas game and again commits numerous penalties, Carroll might have some belly aching to do.
