Pete Carroll -- Wasn't 'football people' who decided his fate - ESPN

SEATTLE — Pete Carroll's 14-year run as Seattle Seahawks coach ended Wednesday when team owner Jody Allen announced that he's transitioning into an advisory role with the organization, but not before Carroll fought hard to keep his job.

The challenge in making his case to ownership, according to Carroll, was that «they're not football people.»

Carroll shared details of his end-of-season meetings with Allen when he appeared on Seattle Sports 710-AM for the final installment of his weekly radio show. He said the first objective was to get to the bottom of what happened this past season as the Seahawks finished 9-8 and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.

«And then, OK, what is the essence of the adjustments that are necessary?» Carroll said in a conversation that aired Friday. «That's where maybe we don't see eye to eye on, because I see it one way and I think I've got a way to fix it and I'm not going to kind of halfway fix it; I'm trying to fix it so it's perfect. I've got real precise and specific thoughts and they may not see if that way, they may not agree with it, they may not see that that's the right answer or that's not the answer that makes them feel good. The difficult part is, if you guys could know, it's really hard because they're not football people. They're not coaches, and so to get to the real details of it is really difficult for other people.»

It's not clear who aside from Allen and Carroll were part of those end-of-season meetings, though Bert Kolde is the Seahawks' vice chair under Allen, who assumed control of the team after her brother, Paul Allen, died in October 2018.

Asked if he had an idea that the meetings would go the way they did, Carroll said he knew he'd be challenged.

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