Carroll: Wilson has sprained ankle, should play vs. L.A.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll had his regular Monday morning radio show on 710 AM ESPN. Here’s some of the highlights:

– Carroll called Seattle’s 12-10 victory over Miami a good win and a hard game. He said the defense played great, but that there was a lot of stuff that needed cleaning up, mentioning the offensive line and issues in the kicking/punting game in particular.

– Carroll gave some updates on the status of quarterback Russell Wilson. Wilson’s ankle turned when he was sacked by Miami’s Ndamukong Suh early in the third quarter and he was hobbled the rest of the way. Carroll said Wilson has a sprained ankle, but should be able to go next week against Los Angeles. However, he did say the team would have to take the injury into consideration during preparations for that game. Carroll also praised Wilson’s pain tolerance, saying there was a time a couple years ago when Wilson was banged up, but nobody knew, including his teammates.

– One interesting moment Carroll brought up was Wilson changing the play on the game-winning 2-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin with 31 seconds remaining. The original play call was a run, but Wilson managed to subtly communicate the play change to Baldwin and Jermaine Kearse without any kind of call at the line. Indeed, other than those three, the rest of the team ran the originally called run play. Fascinating.

– As for the offensive line, he said the whole running game wasn’t quite in sync, though he said all aspects were responsible for that, not just the offensive line. He said the line is going to get a lot better because players like J’Marcus Webb and Bradley Sowell were making their first starts for the team.

– Among the running backs, Carroll said Rawls proved he was back and will be able to handle an increased workload. However, he did not go into how the workload would be split between Rawls and Christine Michael going forward.

– Carroll described free safety Earl Thomas as frustrated with the way he played. Thomas missed a few tackles and also got beat deep on a play where Miami receiver Kenny Stills dropped a sure touchdown. Carroll said Thomas may have been affected by the events of the day, but that he was well prepared, and Carroll expects Thomas to come back and play great.

– In other injury news, Carroll said he didn’t know whether guard Germain Ifedi would recover from his ankle sprain in time for next week, but he didn’t sound confident. Running back C.J. Prosise couldn’t play on offense in the second half because of a cast that was placed on his sprained wrist, but he may have the cast off and be ready to play by the end of the week.

– Finally, Carroll was proud of the players’ demonstration of unity during the national anthem. He said the conversations about the subject had been going on for a long time, predating Colin Kaepernick’s sit-down protests. He talked about how the players want to be the bridge between law enforcement and the community to help break down the communication gap, because getting to know one another is the key to stopping the misunderstandings.