A day after the Seattle Seahawks' 25-20 loss to the New Orleans Saints, coach Pete Carroll was hesitant to go into detail about his thoughts on the officiating overall.

"It’s not productive to spend a bunch of time talking with you guys about it," Carroll said. "I’m just going to do the procedure that we have, try to get the understanding that we can and help our guys play better with that understanding, but also by doing our things right too."

What had angered Carroll and several Seahawks players was that the Saints entered the game averaging 73.17 penalty yards (27th), while the Seahawks were at 70.67 (26th). Yet in the Week 8 matchup, the Seahawks were whistled for 11 penalties for 76 yards, while the Saints were flagged twice for 10 yards.

According to ESPN Stats & Information's data, the margin of nine or more penalties for one team in a single game has happened just 2.4 percent of the time over the past five seasons (since 2012).

In games just this year, it's happened 4.2 percent of the time.

As for the non-calls, there were two questionable pick plays where Saints receivers took out cornerback Jeremy Lane.

"Both guys were coming off blocks, and it’s all a question of timing for the officials and also the placement of the player if he’s within a yard of the line of scrimmage," Carroll said. "That’s what they have to determine, so that’s one of them. The other one there was legitimate, we got knocked up pretty good, so I’m really anxious to see what they say about that one."

On Brandin Cooks' 2-yard touchdown, Lane was standing in between the 1-yard line and the goal line, so the referees may have deemed that he was within the 1-yard window. On a 20-yard completion in the fourth quarter, he appeared to be more than 1 yard away from the line of scrimmage.

Later in the game, Seahawks safety Kelcie McCray appeared to tackle running back Tim Hightower out of bounds, but the official ruled that Hightower's forward progress was stopped in bounds, and the clock kept running.

The signal to keep the clock running came at the 2:39 mark, but Carroll did not call timeout until it had wound down to 2:22. Those 17 seconds could have come in handy on the Seahawks' final possession.

"I had to run down the sidelines to get the official’s attention," Carroll said. "It just looked like a typical, knocked-out-of-bounds play, and we were going on to the next thing, trying to save a timeout. Then we just had to take care of business there."

Carroll added that that's one of the plays the Seahawks have sent in to the league to get further explanation on.