By Michael-Shawn Dugar, Mike Sando and Jayson Jenks
Days before a critical home game against the Cardinals, Russell Wilson met with members of the Seahawks’ technical team. It was a time of great tension. In the previous two Seattle games, Wilson had turned the ball seven times and the Seahawks had lost both, first to Bills, then to Rams. The attack needed to get on track and Wilson had ideas on how to make it happen.
Instead, the meeting would come to symbolize the division between Wilson and the organization.
Pete Carroll built credentials in the Hall of Fame based on what he sees as simple truths about how the game is best played: running the ball, avoiding spins, exploding in the passing game. “It’s not because we just want to bang our heads against the wall,” Carroll once explained. “It’s because the game is played well when you don’t give football to the other team.