Pete Carroll interview on New and missed FA players

http://sportsradiokjr.iheart.com/on...isten-pete-carroll-with-ian-furness-15646014/

Starts with the Lacey signing, weight....ect

5:45 mark Luke Joeckel

11:00 mark TJ Lang miss.

Most notably I found... "We did NOT get outbid on this thing" talking about Lang staying with home team (Lives in Detroit).

Ian Furness looks like a more prickish Mr. Bean stunt double.

nanomoz":3pemejej said:

Ian Furness looks like a more prickish Mr. Bean stunt double.

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Excellent feedback. Much appreciated.

So after hearing this I've got to wonder. Who is lying Pete "we were not outbid on this thing". Or John Clayton "Seattle offered $8M and Detroit offered $9.5M? Since Pete is more the politician, I'll guess Pete is blowing smoke. :stirthepot: :snack:

1 milllion salary isnt that big of a difference considering that seattle has obviously the better roster than detroit. I do think lang seriously wanted to come and play for the seahawks he just ended up staying home cant really blame him. Lots of players would probably want to play for their home city.

Pete was saying a lot of the things I'd like to hear, particularly multiple bits about the run game, how the run/pass ratio was off and, in that, how the inexperience of the OL showed in pass protection, play calling in terms of how the running game affects the PA and waggle type plays...

This one was really pretty good, IMO.

Seymour":7hxf2j6y said:

So after hearing this I've got to wonder. Who is lying Pete "we were not outbid on this thing". Or John Clayton "Seattle offered $8M and Detroit offered $9.5M? Since Pete is more the politician, I'll guess Pete is blowing smoke. :stirthepot: :snack:

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Not necessarily sure, just depends on the ultimate source, when it first came out that Lang was signed , I heard that Detroit matched Seattle's offer and he chose to go with his hometown team.

Good for Detroit though. It's probably not that last time they'll screw us, you know, Tate, Jason Jones, Superbowl 40.

I mean we did bat a ball out of the end zone in 2015 and demolished them in the play-offs in 2016. Call it karma.

Great listen, thanks for sharing. Pete doesn't sound like he feels well.

He is saying the right things about Joeckel and Lacy, I think. And he sounds hopeful about the progression of the offensive line.

Seymour":1vxtyr29 said:

So after hearing this I've got to wonder. Who is lying Pete "we were not outbid on this thing". Or John Clayton "Seattle offered $8M and Detroit offered $9.5M? Since Pete is more the politician, I'll guess Pete is blowing smoke. :stirthepot: :snack:

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Perhaps Pete knows more than Clayton?

StoneCold":2zjdou3w said:

Seymour":2zjdou3w said:

So after hearing this I've got to wonder. Who is lying Pete "we were not outbid on this thing". Or John Clayton "Seattle offered $8M and Detroit offered $9.5M? Since Pete is more the politician, I'll guess Pete is blowing smoke. :stirthepot: :snack:

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Perhaps Pete knows more than Clayton?

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Unquestionably he does. What he lets out is the key though.

Both can be true. We offer 8, and tell Lang we really want you, and would like the opportunity to match any other offer you receive. If they had a ceiling of, say, 10, then they didn't get outbid, they just didn't get the chance to make a higher offer.

bigskydoc":229fk8sf said:

Both can be true. We offer 8, and tell Lang we really want you, and would like the opportunity to match any other offer you receive. If they had a ceiling of, say, 10, then they didn't get outbid, they just didn't get the chance to make a higher offer.

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Hmmm....great point. That is actually a very possible scenario as well.

Stay on topic.

To me, what Pete was implying was that this was not a money-motivated decision by Lang in which he simply chose the highest bidder, but rather a family-based decision between two competing and relatively comparable offers. Or put another way, Pete was basically saying "the reason he chose them was not because we didn't offer enough money."

RussB":17xr4qh9 said:

1 milllion salary isnt that big of a difference considering that seattle has obviously the better roster than detroit. I do think lang seriously wanted to come and play for the seahawks he just ended up staying home cant really blame him. Lots of players would probably want to play for their home city.

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Lang and his wife had bought a home on the lake outside of Detroit.....Good money, playing AT HOME, yeah, I can see where he & his wife were coming from.
Joe Jurevicius (sp) went back to play out his career with his home town Cleveland Browns...Some times it isn't "just about the money" :vodka: