It is widely believed that Pete Carroll and the Raiders are headed toward a divorce, but with three weeks remaining in the season, can Carroll still find a way to keep his job?
Given the way the team played on Sunday, it’s hard to imagine Carroll will win another game this year, and considering the Raiders have the inside track on the no. 1 pick in the draft, the best scenario for the organization would probably be to lose the final three games.
As for Carroll’s future, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler shared the latest he is hearing around the situation on Wednesday…
“Pressure is mounting on Pete Carroll in Las Vegas after the team has struggled to stay competitive at 2-12. Here’s my sense after asking around Tuesday: The Raiders knew 2025 would be a bit of a slog due to some roster deficiencies, but they hoped they would stay competitive — at least more so than this season’s horrific point differential of minus-167, trailing only the Titans (minus-169). One team source acknowledged, “It wasn’t supposed to be this bad,” and that something will need to change…
Whether removing Carroll is that change has not been crystallized. But the proverbial hot seat chatter doesn’t appear to be going away. As one source with knowledge of the Raiders’ operation noted, what the team needs is what it thought it had with Antonio Pierce — a high-energy first-time head coach with a high ceiling. The Raiders didn’t have enough patience to find out whether Pierce (who went 4-13 in his only full season in Vegas, saddled by bad quarterback play) could mature into that. Either way, the Raiders appear to be in danger of a second consecutive one-and-done in the top leadership role.”
The irony to the Raiders’ decision to fire Pierce a year ago is that Pierce (and others) believe it was Tom Brady who spearheaded the decision to fire him.
But a year earlier, it was Brady who wanted to see the organization show more patience with Josh McDaniels.
Ultimately, the Raiders didn’t choose to ‘wait and see’ on McDaniels or Pierce, and things seem to be lining up for the organization to take the same approach with Carroll.
It has been rumored that Carroll signed a three-year, $45 million deal with the Raiders in January, and if that’s the case, the 74-year-old head coach will have a hefty payout coming if he is fired.
There has been speculation that the Raiders might approach Carroll with some kind of retirement agreement that would allow them to avoid paying out the full amount of his contract, but according to Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter, that isn’t an arrangement that will be particularly enticing for Carroll.
“I want to pick my words,” Carpenter said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast.
“If the Raiders want to move on from Pete, that’s going to be their decision, but I do not see a scenario in which there is a mutual retirement. I’m just telling you… I’m telling you that Pete Carroll is not going to walk away. I’m telling you that emphatically.”
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He isn’t going to be around for the turnaround anyway so what are we losing by firing him? Nothing.
It’s clear he isn’t a viable coach anymore, the team isn’t even competitive. Seattle knew it and after watching this season, the world now knows it.
The players have quit on him, they’re not even trying. He has to go.
And Brady hired him. Even if people hated AP, he was the only one of the last 3 coaches who had these team ready to play & those guys NEVER quit.
The AP critics last year told us “they’re supposed to play hard”. Yeah well it’s easy for a coach to demoralize you.
And again of those 3 guys Brady wanted AP gone the quickest. So that’s 2 crap head coaches that Brady brought us, his OC was a failure, oh and telling us all Darnold wasn’t good enough
Terrifying to realize Brady will run out draft. How long have the fans prayed for a change of ownership?
It’s not going to happen now that Brady has his paws all over the organization. Get ready for another ten-year commitment to excrement.