Quick Takes From Seahawks 24 -13 Preseason win over the Vikings

 Thursday’s preseason game with the Vikings was an opportunity for the young players and nonstarters to make a favorable impression. After a sloppy start in which the defense recorded seven missed tackles the defense hunkered and had just two other transgressions the rest of the game.

The offense was just as lethargic adn inept as the defense coming out of the tunnel. . Punting the ball on its first three offensive possession.  The Drew Lock-led offense found it’s rhythm on it’ four possession of the game. Lock hit  Easop Winston on a 12-yard touchdown to narrow the deficit to a field at 10-7.

PETE CARROLL POST GAME QUOTES

PETE CARROLL:

Tonight was nothing but fun. We had a great time. It was hard getting started. You could tell. This was the first time we tackled anybody. That’s why we use the preseason game. We needed the first quarter to shake the cobwebs. The defense came back in the second quarter and played great all night long. Those young kids did a beautiful job of playing the scheme and making the plays we needed to make. I thought all in all it was really a really strong win for us because if we can build on all of the things that happened. The cool thing was the young guys playing in the fourth quarter, playing well enough to win the game, hold the defense, all of that. I thought Drew did really well tonight, did a nice job. I believe the ball got tipped on the pick.

He was reading the right guy and all that. Ball got tipped at the line of scrimmage. Other than that, he was in command, had a nice night. We didn’t run the ball as well as we did early. Same thing, blocking and tackling took us a while to get going. That’s why we got to play these games. There’s so many names to talk about. You guys ask me the questions. But I was really excited about Holton. Holton, in the end of the game, did what he needed to do, finished up, found a way to make plays. I know they’re hooting Tebow and all that kind of stuff. He did a great job for us tonight to finish the game

Q. You had 30 players not play tonight for you guys. The amount of guys you chose to sit out, what went into thinking of that?

PETE CARROLL: Yeah, I didn’t say anything to you guys about it. I was waiting to see what happened with the week, who did we need, all that. There was some decisions on some guys that are in competitive situations that hadn’t played for us, hadn’t shown for us before. Evan Brown has been playing with the first group, just we needed to see him play, wanted to see him go against Olu, as well. Phil, we needed Phil to play, too. Wanted to give Drew a little security in there with guys he knew could guarantee they make the blocks and right calls to get him started well. Colby was another guy we thought about not playing. Felt like we needed to. Our tight ends were banged up all the way going into the game. They made it. We had decisions like that. We held most of the older guys basically.

Q. Coby Bryant is new playing safety. Big hit. What did you think of him out there?

PETE CARROLL: He’s doing really well. He’s looked really apt for the position. He fits well, moves well, reads the quarterback really well. Covers ground really well back there. Good decision making on playing making opportunities. I think it’s going to be a good spot for him. He’s also going to be called on to play corner for us. He has nickel and dime he is playing. Like I told you earlier in the week, he’s doing everything.

Q. Is Cade spending the night in the hospital?

PETE CARROLL: I don’t know. I don’t know that.

Q. When you look at the run defense, averaged 3.2 a carry, even with different guys out there, do you take something out of that?

PETE CARROLL: Absolutely. Scheme worked well. We liked the way we played. The choices we settled in on for the way we basically played, the calls worked out really well tonight. The guys were confident in them. As we played more, we got better. They brought the scheme to life a little bit. It was a good night for us on defense, a really good night, except for the start where we couldn’t tackle anybody. It was terrible right up to that.

Q. You said you wanted Drew to play a lot this preseason. What are you hoping to see?

PETE CARROLL: I want him to be ready to start games. I want him to be ready to play football games and win championship games for us. He needs to play to do that. He sat around all last year. This formula of him getting three quarters, that’s great for him just to be out there playing football. He’s going to play a lot.

Q. You probably can’t tell from the film, did you notice run fits, did you notice any difference?

PETE CARROLL: We were better. We hit a couple pressures, then the balls popped into the secondary. Made a couple errors where that happened. Once we got going, we were really clean. I thought that Patrick (O’Connell) made a bunch of plays tonight. Devin Bush made some really nice tackles, too. The backers did a good job for us.

Q. (On Ben Burr-Kirven)

PETE CARROLL: He was out there banging away. Had a couple good plays on perimeter plays. He was captain tonight in this game just because. He got back to playing football. It’s just heartwarming to see this story. If you ever would have seen how hard he had to work to get back, how much he overcame, so few people do what he did. He just never, ever wavered that he was going to get back. He’s playing. He’s the captain in his first game back. He was out there making tackles. Kicking game, too. He did a great job tonight.