Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll 'Losing the Locker Room?' Bobby Wagner Responds
The Seattle Seahawks are in the middle of their first four-game losing streak since coach Pete Carroll arrived in 2010. With a roster as talented as these Seahawks have, many feel the underachieving this season has brought is surprising to say the least.
Seattle (6-7) is hanging on for dear life in the NFC playoff picture and will face one of the season's toughest tests Monday night at home against the Philadelphia Eagles (10-3), who are reeling as well amid a two-game losing streak.
The Seahawks will need to rally around one another in order to pull off what would be a season-saving win, but there's been doubts that the team has what it takes to have the tight bond that Carroll's teams have been known to possess in previous seasons.
Bobby Wagner has been there to see it all. With there being a growing concern from fans that Carroll could be "losing the locker room," as one reporter put it to the head coach on Thursday, Wagner had to answer the tough questions, but handled it with honesty and respect.
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll talks to middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) after they stopped Baltimore Ravens on fourth down during the second half at M&T Bank Stadium.
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“No, I think it’s when you go on a four-game losing streak everybody tries to find something, tries to create the reason, especially people that’s not in the locker room," Wagner said Thursday. "They try to come up with the reason because you try to figure out what is going wrong and so, you can name a player, you can name this, you could do that, winning cures all of that. The moment you win then it’s a whole different story, we understand what we need to do, we need to do it quick.”
Losing the locker room? Despite Seattle's shortcomings, that's not likely with Wagner leading the way.
In his 12th season, the veteran linebacker hasn't lost a step on the field or off of it. Wagner has registered at 100 total tackle for the 12th time in his career but has simultaneously been the voice of reason for a Seahawks team that missed him last year, but still found a way to squeak into the playoffs.
Wagner is right. A win over the defending NFC champions on Monday would suddenly change the narrative to something more positive as the Seahawks continue through the season's final stretch. All of this "lost locker room" talk would be a thing of the past.
But it's up to the Seahawks to make sure that's the case when Monday night's game kicks off at 5:15 p.m. PT.
