The difference at this NFL combine compared to the last one for Pete Carroll?
About as different as Indiana is to, say, India.
This time last year the veteran coach had just finished the largest overhaul of his Seattle coaching staff. He was entering the NFL’s annual scouting combine in Indianapolis teaching his coaching staff as much as trusting it to evaluate college players.
He also the coach of a non-playoff team in the middle of breaking up the franchise’s aging, unhappy core that had won a Super Bowl four years earlier. Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett, Kam Chancellor, Cliff Avril were headed out.