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Pete Carroll’s Seahawks take 13-1 prime-time record into Sunday night game vs. Packers
Sep 18, 2015, 1:50 PM | Updated: 2:29 pm
Pete Carroll on prime-time games: "We don't treat them any different than the other ones." (AP)
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RENTON – With the Seahawks set to face Green Bay on Sunday night, here’s your annual reminder about how good they’ve been in regular-season prime-time games under coach Pete Carroll.
Since 2010, Seattle is 13-1 in such games, with the only loss coming at San Francisco on a Thursday night in 2012. The Seahawks have won nine straight since then.
What’s their secret?
“We don’t treat them any different than the other ones,” Carroll told KIRO Radio 97.3 FM Friday morning.
We’ve written a few times – here and here – about Seattle’s success in prime-time games and the approach to which it’s been attributed. Carroll has ingrained in his players the belief that every game is as important as the Super Bowl, so while other teams might have a tendency to try to step up their level of play in prime-time, the Seahawks merely have to maintain theirs.
The line Carroll repeats about every week being a “championship opportunity” might sound like empty coach-speak, but Seattle’s record in prime-time games is evidence that there’s quite a bit to it.
