Pete Carroll didn’t place any blame for the Seattle Seahawks’ 21-16 loss on lingering jetlag from their long trip to Munich, Germany, as sluggish as they looked early on while the Tampa Bay Buccaneers raced to a 14-0 halftime lead.
He didn’t fault the turf either, noting they weren’t the only team that struggled to find its footing on the slick surface at Allianz Arena.
And so the best explanation for the Seahawks’ worst performance since their Week 2 debacle in Santa Clara may be that they simply got beat by the greatest quarterback of all time and a team that’s better than Tampa Bay’s 4-5 record entering the game indicated.