RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll met with reporters Monday after the team's win over the Atlanta Falcons. Here are three takeaways.

1. Carroll was asked how first-round pick Germain Ifedi played in his second career start.

"He had a hard game. He had a hard time," Carroll said. "I think he's just getting going. He did some great stuff, and he did have some plays that he'd like to get back, just things that can get fixed fundamentally, and there's just so many areas that he can improve on and will. We love the good stuff, and we've just got to get through the rest of it. It's not a physical question, it's not even a mental thing. It's just fundamentals and identification and stuff like that that we can really fix. He's going to be really good, and he's made a difference, you can tell, just being out there."

My take: This is nothing to panic about. Ifedi missed the first three games of the season with a high ankle sprain. This is part of the natural growth process with a rookie. And he's already flashed on multiple occasions. Ifedi very much fits the description of a player who should be performing at a much higher level in November and December once he gets more reps under his belt.

2. Carroll was asked about Falcons coach Dan Quinn sending in the non-pass interference call to the league for review.

"I don't blame him one bit for trying to understand that one better," Carroll said. "There's plays every week. You look at like the last play of the half, last play of the game, all the stuff that goes on in those jumps and stuff, there's a lot of stuff that happens, and it's hard on the officials. It's difficult for them to figure that out and to find out what did affect that play. Did whatever happen affect the result of the play? That's what they have to try and figure out. It's hard. They don’t [always] do that right. They're trying, though. I don't think they're going to learn a whole lot from that, but they'll at least give him a judgement on it. We won't send that play in."

If the roles were reversed, and it had been a Seahawks receiver and a Falcons cornerback, would Carroll have sent the play in to be reviewed?

"No," Carroll said. "I think it was really obvious, you know. There's a lot of hand-fighting going on. The league is trying to understand what is allowable and all of that. It's not a change in rules, so much. I think it's just a change in how they are interpreting the rules and understanding this stuff and trying to make sense of it. Again, it just continues to be the most difficult aspect of the game in terms of officiating, is calling pass interference. There's nothing they can do about it. They just have to keep working at it, which they do. And we are all trying to understand it better."

My take: This one's pretty simple to me. It was clearly pass interference on Richard Sherman. Did the officials rule in favor of the Falcons in other instances? Sure. But that was a fourth down in a crucial spot, and the Falcons were trying to drive for the game-winning field goal. Quinn and his team have every right to be upset. Over the course of a season, these things generally even out, and officiating crews are far from perfect. But yes, the Seahawks got away with one.

3. Had the Seahawks lost, the kicking game would be in focus this week. Steven Hauschka missed a 29-yard field goal and had an extra point blocked.

"We weren't as clean with the whole mechanism," Carroll said. "Jon [Ryan] did a really good job early in the game handling some snaps, and for whatever reason, we were just a little bit low and inside on the snaps, and then we were able to fix it. And then we hit the ball kind of low on the one that we got knocked down. So we just weren't quite as efficient as we needed to be."

My take: Carroll seemed to indicate that long-snapper Nolan Frese made a mistake on the missed field goal, but that the missed extra point was on Hauschka. The Seahawks entered the weekend ranking seventh on special teams, but there have been some inconsistencies throughout the season. If those don't get ironed out, they could cost the Seahawks a game. They almost did on Sunday.