New Seahawks S Julian Love Finds a Friend in Coach Pete Carroll
Former Giants safety Julian Love joined the Seattle Seahawks this offseason with a two-year, $12 million contract. The former fourth-round pick joins an already talented safety room that features Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs.
Love should only add to the talent level of the secondary for the Seahawks, and coach Pete Carroll has become a big fan since Love's arrival.
“He’s been fantastic,” Carroll told reporters regarding Love. “I think he’s 26 or something, he’s a young kid still, a young man still. But he’s like he’s been around forever. He’s got great sense, great awareness, presence. He totally gets football, it makes sense to him, he’s an excellent communicator, really a gifted, smooth athlete with real quickness, and real quickness, and that comes from really great instincts.
"He looked great. I know that it’s been obvious to Quandre that he’s got a guy that really can command what’s going on. And so they’re sharing the duties and working together and growing. And so he’s another guy who made a great first impression on us.”
And Love, in turn, had become a huge fan of Carroll.
“He’s one of the best I’ve been around,” Love told reporters. “I didn’t know much about him. I’m a Notre Dame guy. Obviously USC, you know of him. But just being around him, I can see why he has the respect that he has around the league and just around the football world, in general.
"I mean, sometimes I leave his team meetings and he gives you a nugget here or there. But, man, I want to say it to my kids one day. He’s that type of leader. I think he was born into it. And he’s just, I don’t know, he’s changed and improved with the times, which not every coach does. So I mean I’m really blessed to be able to play here.”
The Seahawks' defense ranked 14th in the league in both passing yards allowed and passing touchdowns allowed last season and would like to see that improve this upcoming year. And Love could be a key to making that happen.
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