Media Reactions To Seahawks’ 23-6 Win Over the New York Jets

Rookie corner Tariq Woolen led the team in tackles with seven combined, along with a pass deflection. An all-around dominant performance defensively resulted in the Jets being held without a touchdown, as Seattle brought down quarterback Mike White four times. Linebacker Darrell Taylor brought White down 2.5 times to reach a career-high of 8.5. Defensive end Quinton Jefferson hit his own career high in sacks, climbing to 5.5 after a 1.5 sack, 2 tackle-for-loss game Sunday.

Carroll took the podium following the game to discuss bringing in the year with a win at home.

“First off Happy New Year to everybody,” said Carroll. “On a real serious note, before you guys ask, I heard Dori Monson passed away. You guys all knew that, right, heard that? For years he and I worked on the show together and got to know him well in that mode. Miss the guy. He had a lot of talent. Special guy. Unfortunate. I don’t know anything about the circumstances of course, but we’ll miss him. On this New Year’s Day we had a good football day. We had a really good football day. Across the board everybody played like we were hoping. We were able to play like the complementary football where we made the turnovers, had field position. We could have done better in the red zone, but did a lot of the positive things all day long. Offense did not turn the football over. Plus three for the day. Huge, huge day for us in that regard. A lot of cool things happened. Ran the ball really well today. Ken had a great day running it and DeeJay has a really good day, too, in his complementary stuff that he did. We didn’t get it the ball to DK or Tyler much at all, but we had enough stuff going and the tight ends did a really good job; saw a lot of Colby today. It fit together really well. Terrific for the defense to get through a day and no touchdowns. That’s hard to do that in this league. Great to see those guys do that. Looks like we’re making a little move. Played definitely better in some areas last week and came back and did it again this week. We got a big finish coming up. It was a real good day.”