Pete Carroll: “I Don’t Care” What Terrell Owens Has Done

Good on Pete Carroll, the former USC genius-turned Seattle struggler whose newest acquisition, Terrell Owens, comes to the Pacific Northwest with more baggage than a suburban housewife on a cross-Atlantic flight.

“I don’t care what happened before,” said Carroll.

Before is long. Owens burned his bridges in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Dallas (and each of their quarterbacks) and then just played himself out of both Buffalo and Cincinnati. Those cities got less cooler along the way, too. Owens essentially went from private college to state universities.

Carroll will need to be open, just like Owens will. Terrell is reportedly broke, and Carroll is (obviously) in need of wins. Marshawn Lynch’s run was a long time ago.

“We’re starting together from this point forward,” said Pistol Pete. “What he said, what he’s done – I could care less about that. It’s right now.”

Good. Because, at 38 years old, Owens could care less about that, too.