Raiders Hire Pete Carroll As Next Head Coach

Raiders Hire Pete Carroll As Next Head Coach

The Raiders replaced one cheerleader for another. I guess if you’re going to hire another motivational cheerleader, may as well bring one in that actually has a winning pedigree. Pete Carroll is the new head coach in Vegas.

Adam Schefter of ESPN was the first to report the news:

Just in: Pete Carroll and the Raiders now have reached agreement on a three-year deal with a fourth-year team option, sources tell ESPN.

Another veteran legendary coach has returned. pic.twitter.com/Jc2J0EPo7N

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 24, 2025

Carroll, 73, gets a three year contract with a team option for the fourth season. Carroll will team up with newly named GM John Spytek to run the show with the Raiders. Both of these hires seem to be crafted by Tom Brady so if things go wrong, the fighting Chicksters will know who to blame.

After a 14 year tenure with the Seahawks, Carroll was only out of coaching for one year. He now takes over a team who holds the 6th pick in the draft and roughly $90+ million in cap space. The Raiders offseason mission will be to find a quarterback. That part won’t be easy given where Vegas is picking in the draft.

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This move makes sense for the Raiders. It’s a short term fix but they really needed a grown up in the room. You’re competing against Andy Reid, Jim Harbaugh, and Sean Payton just within the division. Sending out an inexperienced guy and expecting him to win that fight seemed foolish. Carroll buys them time to be functional where I’m guessing he picks his own successor at the end of the three or four years of the deal.

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