Russell Wilson is still haunted by The Interception. (Getty Images)
Russell Wilson is still haunted by The Interception. (Getty Images)

In the weeks after Malcolm Butler's improbable goal-line interception sealed Super Bowl XLIX for the Patriots, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson admitted that he was haunted by the pass that cost Seattle back-to-back titles.

Around that time, coach Pete Carroll said the Seahawks were "forging on" and "charging forward," leaving those final, fateful seconds in the past. But Carroll said this week that the way Seattle lost -- throwing the ball from the one-yard line instead of feeding one of the NFL's best backs -- will always be there.

“Those kinds of occurrences? They don’t go away. They don’t go away. You just put them somewhere so you can manage the properly. It’s back there,” Carroll told NFL Network, via PFT.

But Carroll isn't feeling sorry for himself; he's using it as motivation.

“I’m fueled by it and I always have been and there’s a big part of me that doesn’t want to let it go," he said. "I want to make sure that I’m always with it, I always know what happened so I can learn from it.”

Meanwhile, Carroll echoed what Wilson said last month: the young quarterback was devastated by how the Super Bowl ended.

“He thinks of it every day," Carroll said of Wilson. "He told me that: Every day it comes to mind. The impact of these games are life long, one way or the other. I can only imagine what it was like to be the Buffalo Bills. I don’t know how that would have been for them. Not just once, but four times in a row, for years and years and years and years to have to deal with that.

"I can’t even fathom that and I’m not going to — that’s not going to happen. Russell has taken it extremely hard, just because of the competitor he is, and I would expect nothing less.”

Vegas hasn't lost faith either; the Seahawks are favored to win the 2016 Super Bowl, 5/1, just ahead of the Patriots and Packers (6/1) and the Cowboys (10/1).