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Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll Rips Officiating After Loss To Dallas Cowboys

Pete Carroll rips officiating after loss to Cowboys

Much to the dismay of Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, Thursday night’s game against the Dallas Cowboys was marred by a bevy of penalties.

The Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys may not have any yellow in their color schemes, but viewers sure saw a lot of it during Thursday night’s game.

Pete Carroll rips officiating after loss to Cowboys

Throughout the entire game, both teams drew an obscene amount of penalties. Seattle had 10 flags for 130 yards, while Dallas had nine for 127 yards. Some of those penalties were warranted, no doubt, but enough to make this one of the most penalized games of the season? Probably not.

After the game, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was vocal about his displeasure with the sheer number of penalties on both sides.

A referee attempts to break up Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen.

“It’s unfortunate that it feels like there was a whole ‘nother factor in this game,” Carroll said, per ESPN. “I don’t know, you guys saw it a lot better than I did, but there was just way too many penalties in this game, for both sides. We’ve got to get out of that kind of football.”

A referee attempts to break up Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen.

Amidst all the penalties, there was one sequence that particularly bothered Carroll. Late in the first quarter, a delay of game penalty backed Jason Myers’ field goal attempt up to a 42-yard try, but the play clock was not properly reset after the flag. Lo and behold, Myers wound up missing the kick as both he and Carroll were clamoring for a reset.

A referee attempts to break up Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen.

Later on, referee Clete Blakeman shared his recount of that sequence.

For Carroll, though, that explanation doesn’t fix what he believes is an egregious mistake by the officials, as he said after the game: “The way I saw it, that’s an error on their part, and that was too bad.”

A referee attempts to break up Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen.

To cap off his officiating critique, Carroll reiterated that the sheer frequency of penalties doesn’t help the league, and he intends to push against it however he can.

“They know the game, they know how to make these calls, but they can’t call everything that when there’s a little this and a little that, and particularly when it doesn’t affect the play,” Carroll said. “I’ll spend some time on this in the offseason for sure.”

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