Pete Carroll says Seahawks’ loss to Rams doesn’t affect situation with Kam Chancellor

If Sunday’s loss has changed anything on the Kam Chancellor front, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll gave no indication of it during his weekly Monday coach’s show on ESPN 710 Seattle.

Asked directly if the loss would alter the team’s stance on Chancellor, Carroll said, “No, I mean, there is not much going on right now. It’s pretty quiet.”

Carroll also said he didn’t think the issue was hovering over the heads of his players much.

“No, I don’t see the players talk about it at all,” he said. “It’s pretty obvious he’s a terrific football player, a big part of our team. But the fact is we don’t have him — we have to go with it.”

Carroll was also asked about the NFL Network report Sunday that the team has been negotiating with Chancellor.

Carroll said “you guys can say whatever you want. ”

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Every week at this point looms as a critical week in the Chancellor saga now that regular season games are being played. But suffice to say this is another one. And if he’s going to report this week and play, it would likely happen by Wednesday.

As for a few other notes …

— Carroll said the fourth-and-one call that ended the game was a zone read play in which quarterback Russell Wilson could hand the ball off to Marshawn Lynch or keep it himself. “It’s our base play,” Carroll said. “It gives Marshawn a chance and it gives Russell a chance.” Carroll said the Rams had a good rush on the play. “They hit it hard and they were fortunate to make the play,” Carroll said.

— Carroll reiterated that the final kickoff was supposed to go to about the 25-yard line or so with the hope that an offensive lineman for the Rams would have to field it. He said kicker Steven Hauschka heard the call correctly but simply did not kick it right.

— Carroll said free safety Earl Thomas made it through fine in his first live action since undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder in February. “He played very well,’’ Carroll said. “Earl was all over the place, did a nice job on all the stuff they tried to get up top. They had a number of big shots they looked to take, and he was there for them, and I thought that that could happen in this game, they’d just check him out, which they should and they did, and he did a very nice job. “He tackled pretty well, and I think he found his confidence as he went through the game. He needed to play and get going, he felt enthused by ‘I’m back, I’m ready’ and all that after the game.”

— Carroll said again that the timeout he called before the two-minute warning with Seattle on defense was one he called because he wanted to make sure the Seahawks had the right defense on the field. He said he thought the Rams would have snapped the ball before the two-minute warning anyway.

— Carroll said two of the key defensive issues were not tacking well and the linebackers not dropping deeply enough in zone coverage, which left some of the wide open spaces for St. Louis pass plays. “Got to clean that up,” he said.

— Asked about the mood of the locker room and plane flight, Carroll said there was a feeling of shared responsibility for the defense. “There were enough things that happened that everyone felt responsible,” he said.

— Carroll said the team did not suffer any new injuries and that two players who missed the game — cornerback Tharold Simon and linebacker Mike Morgan — should be back for the Green Bay game this Sunday.