Thread by @mattyfbrown, How did the Seahawks Defense improve? By doing what @cmikesspinmove and I [...]

Matty F. Brown

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How did the Seahawks Defense improve? By doing what @cmikesspinmove and I spoke about on @seattleoverload. By doing what I wrote about after the WK9 Buffalo debacle. They got back to basics.

Pete Carroll 710 ESPN Seattle: "We’re playing the stuff that we know how to play."

“We put our heads together and did some really important things. We were so uncharacteristic and so off and all that. That was like the final straw. We had to make sure that we adjusted and figured it out and tweaked it and all of that," Carroll said of post-Buffalo on Monday.

Carroll Monday presser: “And I’m not gonna share that with you, if you don’t mind, all of the details and that, but yeah. It was really that time-frame. Yeah, that had been enough.” Clearly, strong discussions happened between the coaching staff took place after the Buffalo game.

Carroll's comments in his 710 ESPN Seattle Monday radio hit are music to the ears. Clearly, he saw the defensive issues similarly to @cmikesspinmove and I.

Keeping things simple. Building the chemistry. Executing the base to a high standard. Sprinkling in the sub-package stuff.

It's some of the best stuff I've heard from Carroll. High level of insight into his coaching philosophy. More bear looks and still more blitzing than the old dominant defense of predominantly 4-3 under + over. Yet still true to the Cover 3 roots and base-then-subpackage approach