While enjoying an Atlanta Hawks playoff game from Matthew Dellavedova Jersey courtside seats rooting for his hometown NBA team last week, was to play for the next year. As it does these days, Irvin's quotes made their way around the Internet and back up to Seattle, where the linebacker has one more year on his contract. coach Pete Carroll, who was inducted into the USC Athletics Hall of fame on Saturday, was asked about Irvin's quotes about planning to play in Atlanta next year. He was eager to respond. "I'm really glad you asked me that, because he didn't say that," Carroll said in response to the quote from . "We've been talking all along, he's been working out in Atlanta for three weeks, and he said in response to the question 'Do you want to come back home?' He said: 'Everybody likes to come back home, it's Ante Zizic Jersey a dream to come back home.' It wasn't in reference to leaving us and coming back, so he was really adamant about it, and I asked him so let's leave it and not go at it anymore. I'm glad you brought it up." Carroll blamed a misquote for causing the situation. "We've seen at the just in this last year a number of things being written or stated about players," he said. "What J.R. Smith Jersey they're doing, what they're thinking, and they're being misrepresented in those situations. It was wonderful to see our guys respond, because they respond vehemently. They don't want to be positioned like that, they don't want to look like that Marquese Chriss Jersey ... it doesn't have to be a reporter at a network, anybody can put those me sages out, and they have a life to them. Our guys are getting better at understanding that, and Bruce has learned again from this le son." The perception that the linebacker isn't long for Seattle after the team caused Irvin's quote from the Hawks game to carry weight The links to Atlanta are plenty. Former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn now coaches the , he needs pa s rushers, Atlanta is Irvin's home. Carroll insists that Irvin is focused on being Dante Exum Jersey a Seahawk. As long as the team -- especially the players in the locker room -- doesn't believe that the linebacker is biding his time until he can leave, that's all that matters. The latest Podcast welcomes Lindsay Rhodes to and the latest names revealed on the "The Top 100 Players of 2015" countdown. Find more content on .