Seahawks' Pete Carroll 'Overflowing With Praise' After Win vs. Lions

Seattle finds itself at .500 early in the 2023 NFL campaign, and after the second-half performance against the Rams in Week 1 that saw the Seahawks outscored 23-0, it's very welcomed.

The Seattle Seahawks finds themselves at .500 early in the 2023 NFL campaign. After their second-half performance against the Rams in Week 1 that saw the Seahawks outscored 23-0, this is a very welcomed sight.

Seattle beat the Detroit Lions 37-31 in overtime at Ford Field on Sunday to even its record, and the Seahawks had to beat the odds to do so. Both Seattle starting tackles were out with injuries, and the team was playing in a hostile environment in the Lions' home opener.

Detroit was coming off an emotional Week 1 win over the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, virtually shocking the NFL world with the victory in front of a Thursday Night Football national audience.

The cards continued to get stacked against the Seahawks, who lost key players during the game. Wideout DK Metcalf and corner Riq Woolen left with injuries. Metcalf would return, but Woolen did not.

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As a result, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll knows the team stole one in Detroit.

"That was an opportunity captured today," Carroll said. "We have so much respect for them and the way they started the season with the time they've had in building up this team, winning at KC and all that on the road, knowing that the stadium was going to be perfect in their support, it was going to be as hard as it can get, so the opportunity was just magnified in that regard. 

Carroll admitted a win like this was "hard to measure" in terms of how valuable it is for the team moving forward.

"I mean in all honesty, we win a game and that's really important, but for our young team and for our guys to understand what it is, we've been talking about it and believing in finishing and doing the stuff that they needed to do in this game and do right all the way through the end of the game, it wound up all the way to the end of the fourth quarter and all the way into OT. It's hard to measure how valuable that is for us."

Carroll knows the team could've laid on the second-half performance against the Rams in Week 1, but rising above it is part of the growth of his young team battling in a tough division.

"This is just a coach just overflowing with praise for our guys because of the way we came through. And we needed this badly. We know what happened last week and we stunk it up in the second half and we were ready to show that we were ready to show that we could play anybody, anywhere, anytime. And I'm so thrilled that we can say we got away with a win here."

The Seahawks will host the Carolina Panthers on Sunday at Lumen Field.