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Pete Carroll surprised Richard Sherman didn't apologize for sideline outburst

Published Dec. 22, 2016 8:40 p.m. ET

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It’s been a week since Richard Sherman lost his cool on the Seattle Seahawks sideline, but it seems like the team can’t move on from the episode.

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll told reporters Thursday he was surprised that the Pro Bowl cornerback didn’t apologize for his outburst during Seattle’s win over the Rams last Thursday.

On Tuesday, Sherman said he had no regrets for yelling at the coaching staff during a third-quarter goal-line situation in the victory. Sherman was upset after a pass on first-and-goal was nearly intercepted and he expressed his displeasure on the sideline. The Seahawks scored two plays later on a Russell Wilson pass to Doug Baldwin for a 1-yard touchdown.

“I don’t like it when we throw the ball at the 1 [yard-line],” Sherman after the game. “We throw an interception at the 1. Luckily it went incomplete, and I wasn’t going to let them continue to do that.

“I was letting Pete know. I was making sure Pete knew that we’re not comfortable with you throwing the ball at the 1.”

Toward the end of Tuesday’s news conference, Sherman also lost his cool with a local reporter, telling Jim Moore of 710 ESPN Seattle that he would “ruin” his career. Sherman expressed his fondness for the media on Twitter late Tuesday but fell short of formally apologizing.

https://twitter.com/RSherman_25/status/811379227203289088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Carroll said Thursday that he thought Sherman would apologize for what he said to Moore.

“I thought he would,” Carroll said, via the Seattle Times. “I thought he would more than he did.’’

But Carroll insists that the Seahawks have put this incident behind them.

“It’s pretty obvious to me,’’ he said. “We are deep into this thing with our guys and know them well and been through a lot with them and so we have handled everything that we need to handle. We’ve put everything in a proper place and we are in really good shape about it."

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