It’s been six years since the Patriots stunned Seattle in Super Bowl XLIX — heck, Malcolm Butler isn’t even on the team any more — but Pete Carroll still isn’t over the loss.
The Seahawks coach made the (now infamous) decision to throw on the 1-yard line rather than handing the ball to Marshawn Lynch, and Butler burned him. Named to the 2010s All-Decade Team alongside Bill Belichick, Carroll explained how challenging it was to recover from that loss organizationally in an NFL.com interview — and admitted that it still stings.
“It was such an emotional way to lose for everybody, and we had to rebuild everybody’s brain,” Carroll said.