Seahawks HC Pete Carroll on Julian Love: 'He totally gets football'
Newly-minted Seahawks safety Julian Love has earned the praise of head coach Pete Carroll.
During the mandatory minicamp, the Seattle Seahawks got a taste of what their recent free agent signing, Julian Love, can do on the field.
And for his production, Love earned the praise of Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, who said the safety can do almost everything on the football field.
"He's got great sense, great awareness, presence. He totally gets football," Carroll said of Love after minicamp. "It makes sense to him, he's an excellent communicator, really a gifted smooth athlete with real quickness, and real quickness, and that comes from really great instincts. He looked great. I know that it's been obvious to Quandre [Diggs] that he's got a guy that really can command what's going on. And so they're sharing the duties and working together and growing. He's another guy who made a great first impression on us.”
What Love represents to the Seahawks is a swiss-army knife that can lineup at multiple spots on the field.
Love can function as a single-high safety or box "money" linebacker, positional flexibility that wasn't available to the Seahawks during last season.
It was also reported during minicamp that Seahawks first-round draft pick Devon Witherspoon saw snaps as the nickel corner because of an injury to a team starter. So in Love and Witherspoon, Carroll's coaching philosophy is coming to fruition. And as a secondary as a whole, Carroll only had good things to say.
"It's going to be a real battle in camp, and I hope everybody stays healthy so they can put their best foot forward and all of that," he said. "But this is as competitive as we've been in a long time, and we expect to call on those guys. They're going to be covering people, they're going to be working hard, they're going to be in matchups and doing all the press stuff that we work so hard at and all that. These guys, they're going to bring it, and we'll see how much we can utilize it. But it's an area that I'm really fired up about.”
And that all starts with Love and ends with Witherspoon.
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