It appears Pete Carroll and Bruce Irvin are going to run with being misinterpreted today.
Irvin made headlines when he told our Samuel Logan that he wanted to go home, and play for the Falcons.
“I’m going to be in Atlanta next season. I’m ready,” said Irvin in response to my question about where he wants to be after his contract his up.
Asked again by Samuel if Seattle needed to show him the money, Irvin repeated that he wanted to go home.
Pete Carroll is now backpedaling for Irvin, telling the Associated Press, “that Logan got the wrong interpretation.”
“I’m really glad you asked me that, because he didn’t say that,” Carroll said, via the Associated Press. “We’ve been talking all along. He has been working out in Atlanta for these three weeks, and he said [that] in response to the question ‘Do you want to come back home?’ He said everybody likes to come back home, and it’s a dream to come back home. It wasn’t in reference to leaving us and coming back [to the Falcons]. He was really adamant about it, and I asked him to leave it and not go at it anymore.”
Irvin wouldn’t be the first guy to already be looking ahead to future plans, and Carroll is wrong for insinuating that Samuel Logan lied on Bruce Irvin, or confused his words.