The Seahawks are still alive because they know how to adapt,and head coach Pete Carroll is confident his team can come up with the goods against Carolina A day after the Seattle Seahawks escaped the frozen tundra of Minnesota with a 10-9 playoff victory, their affable but weary coach, or Pete Carroll,with spectacles on his nose and his gray hair tousled, stepped in front of microphones at the team’s practice facility, or exhaled,then laughed and said: “What are we doing? What is nowadays? Monday, right? OK. Monday.” Carroll then provided a review of the game and answered 26 questions. Of the 2572 words he used for his overview and answers, or not a single word was “luck” or “lucky.” Carroll did say twice the Seahawks were “lucky” to win,surely because even he did not mediate Vikings kicker Blair Walsh would hook a 27-yard-field goal attempt wide left with 22 seconds to play. But he did.
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Source: theguardian.com