First, in case you missed it, Pete Carroll addressed the report that the Seahawks are growing tired of Marshawn Lynch’s act, so if you want to read those comments, here’s the link.
As for the team’s injury situation, the Seahawks are slowly getting healthier, but they won’t be getting Zach Miller (ankle) or Bobby Wager (toe) back in the immediate future. Both made the trip with the team to see specialist, and neither was given a definitive timeline on their returns.
“Zach had a meeting with the doctors out there, as did Bobby,” Carroll said. “Both those guys kind of got updated on their progress and where they’re going. We were not given a timeline for them, and neither one is ready to come back this week, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens with those guys…. Bobby Wagner and Zach are the guys who are going to be a while.”
Center Max Unger, who has missed three games with a foot injury, “has a chance to get back” this week, Carroll said. Carroll gave a “we’ll see” on the status of CB Byron Maxwell (calf) and DT Jordan Hill (ankle). Carroll also noted that Jeremy Lane is still on track to return for Seattle’s Nov. 9 game against New York, the earliest the cornerback can come off of short-term injured reserve.
Carroll said there’s a good chance Bryan Walters makes it back this week from a concussion suffered in practice last week. If Walters does come back, the Seahawks will have a choice to make after rookie Paul Richardson looked good in his first game as Seattle’s kick returner.
“We’ll wait and see, but Paul had one to break it in, then No. 2 he hit it pretty good,” Carroll said. “He really tore it up in there. It was exciting to see, you can see the burst, he’s got extraordinary speed, and he went for it… We were encourage, we would not hesitate to have him back there.”
Linebacker Malcolm Smith has “a groin thing” Carroll said.
“We’ve got to wait how he responds,” he said. “It was a mild groin strain, we don’t really have a timeline yet. We’ll see when we get back Wednesday and figure it out from there.”
On G James Carpenter, who missed part of the game with a back injury then later returned, Carroll said, “I talked to him this morning, he felt OK. We’ll see how he does. He had kind of back spasms.”
Safety Jeron Johnson suffered a concussion late in the game on kickoff coverage.
“We’ll have to wait and see how he does,” Carroll said. “He’s going to go through the protocol for the concussion stuff, and he got banged a couple other spots too, but we’ll see how he does. We don’t know right now. Bryan Walters has to get through the same protocol also.”
Carroll said they’re continuing to go forward with Robert Turbin as their fullback. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t make a move later if somebody they like is available, but he made it clear they didn’t see any options available last week that they viewed as being an upgrade over using their backup running back at a new position.
“If there was a fullback out there who could jump right in and play for us right now, we would have already made that move, so we’re going with the guys that we have that we really like,” he said. “We have plenty of offense, but I really like when Turbo’s on the field and Marshawn’s on the field, we like the flexibility and the things we can do with that, we’ll continue to work that out. Meanwhile Robert will continue to grow at the position. He totally knows what we’re asking of him at the spot, he just needs reps. So instead of just force-feeding it right now, we’re just going to keep growing as we can and see how it all comes together.”
Asked if his team might make a move before tomorrow’s trade deadline, Carroll said, “John (Schneider) is working on it. You never know. He’ll go all the way until the final hour. He’s looking at stuff and entertaining thoughts and things like that; that’s just the way we’ve always been, so he’s still doing it.”
Finally, Carroll was asked for his thoughts on the decision made by Oak Harbor to forfeit its game against Marysville Pilchuck (if you missed it in Saturday’s Herald, here’s more on that).
“What an extraordinary gesture,” Carroll said. “It’s a gesture of understanding and compassion that’s good to be recognized… That was a very cool gesture.”
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