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Pete Carroll’s historic run as Seahawks head coach is over.
Carroll will no longer be Seattle’s head coach, the team announced Wednesday. However, he will remain in the organization in a different role.
Carroll joined the Seahawks in 2010, helping them become title contenders within a few seasons. He led them to their first championship in 2013, winning Super Bowl XLVIII over the Broncos 43-8. The Seahawks repeated as NFC champs a year later, but fell to the Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX 28-24.
In Carroll’s 14 years at the helm, he went 137-89-1 and reached the postseason 10 times. After making the playoffs in 2022, the Seahawks fell short in 2023 despite their 9-8 record.
Former Seahawks defensive coordinator and current Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn is considered to be a strong candidate to succeed Carroll, who at 72 was the NFL’s oldest active head coach.
If this marks the end of Carroll’s coaching career, it puts a cap on one of the best in all of football. Carroll joined the Seahawks following a dominant nine-year run at USC that brought the program back to prominence, winning two national titles and playing for a third. He’s one of only three coaches to ever win a national title in college and a Super Bowl as a head coach, with Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer being the other two.
Carroll began his head coaching career with the Jets in 1994. He was fired after one season in which New York went 6-10. He got his second head coaching job in 1997, replacing Bill Parcells as the Patriots’ head coach. New England made the postseason in his first two years in New England, but Carroll was fired after an 8-8 season in 1999.
When Carroll returned to the NFL in 2010, he quickly helped remake the Seahawks. By this third year on the job, the Seahawks were among the NFL’s best teams, going 11-5 in 2012 behind the strong play of their “Legion of Boom” defense and the emergence of rookie quarterback Russell Wilson. They fell short of the ultimate goal though,…
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Publish date : 2024-01-10 20:45:27
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