The past decade of Seahawks football has undeniably been defined by two figures: Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. Two weeks after a blockbuster trade sent Wilson to Denver, Carroll spoke during a radio appearance with Seattle Sports 710 about his reluctance to part ways with his longtime quarterback.
Carroll said he fought against trading Wilson for as long as he could, and he had no intention of trading him coming into the offseason. After Wilson requested a trade, the two had “a lot of conversations” regarding the quarterback’s future, per ESPN’s Brady Henderson, and ultimately arrived at the point that the team decided dealing Wilson was the best strategy—though Carroll insisted that he didn’t want to trade Wilson and didn’t think a trade would happen.