Written by Bob Condotta at SeattleTimes.com
The Seahawks have reached agreement on a new contract with coach Pete Carroll through the 2019 season, the team confirmed Tuesday night, completing one of Seattle’s main off-season tasks four days before training camp officially opens.
The agreement, reported first by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, was also later confirmed in a Tweet from owner Paul Allen, who wrote: “Thrilled to announce we have reached an extension with Super Bowl winning coach (Pete Carroll).”
The Seahawks are 60-36 overall in the regular season under Carroll and 8-4 in the playoffs, winning percentages of .625 and .667 that are each the best in team history. In that time, Seattle has not lost a game by more than 10 points, a streak of 83 games that dates to the middle of the 2011 season.
Carroll, already the oldest coach in the NFL, turns 65 on Sept. 15. But has given no indication he plans to retire anytime soon and now has a new contract — officially a three-year extension that begins after the 2016 season — that will keep him with the team through his 68thbirthday.
Addressing his coaching future in an interview with the Times in 2014, Carroll said: “I really don’t even think about the timeline of it,’’ he said. “I don’t even know how to. I’m not looking to the end, not looking for it to end. I’m just having fun balling. We know where we are for the next few years, and we are going to try to do everything we can to make it as cool as possible.’’
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