NFL: Pete Carroll says the running game will get going

The Pearl Harbour was not nicely.

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll knows it’s a bad time for the running game to sputter with this weekend’s matchup against San Francisco’s vaunted defense. The Seahawks managed just 70 yards on 26 carries, including 43 yards from lead back Marshawn Lynch.

“They wound up doing all right as the game wound up,” Carroll said, via John Boyle of Herald.net.

“We needed to help them a little bit scheme wise, some things we needed to fix in the run game that against that opponent didn’t work out right for us. Really I don’t think it’s anything, we just need to get back to business and we’ll make this go in the right direction.”

“We have grown and we’ve adjusted some,” he said. “Not everything worked out just the way that we would have liked; we didn’t run the ball as well. In our program, as you guys know, that’s a huge focus, so we were disappointed.

We plan to go right back to business and get it done this week. We can’t go like that, we’re not going to football that way. We have to do something about it this week against a tremendous defense.

“I contributed to that. I’ve got to make sure that I help out and do the right things to help us make sure we get us on track on what’s really important to us. We didn’t zero in early enough where we could make the adjustments that we normally make. It just took us a while.”