Many believe Pete Carroll will be the Raiders’ next one-and-done head coach, but with four games remaining on the schedule, there’s still time for Carroll and the coaching staff to make their case for next season.
There will be a number of factors going into the decision on Carroll’s future, but according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Vinny Bonsignore, the Raiders might not be inclined to bring back Carroll if they intend to invest in a rookie quarterback in this year’s draft.
“I don’t think, especially if the Raiders are in position to draft a quarterback, I think there’s a very slim chance that they’ll sacrifice a year as opposed to going and finding a head coach that they can now pair up with this young quarterback,” Bonsignore said on the Vegas Nation First and 10 podcast.
Bonsignore offered a list of first-round quarterbacks who essentially wasted their rookie seasons with lame duck head coaches, and he thinks the Raiders would be inclined to reset at head coach if they take one of the top quarterbacks in this year’s draft.
If Carroll ends up staying for another season, Sports Illustrated insider Albert Breer brought up an offensive coordinator candidate he thinks would be a good fit in Las Vegas in 2026.
“Assuming you’re moving forward with Pete Carroll in 2026, I think Brian Daboll would be a hire that would make sense, maybe even enough so that you’d evaluate Daboll as Carroll’s eventual successor,” Breer wrote on Monday. “But certainly, discussing next year in a vacuum, Daboll would make sense, with the potential that a quarterback-of-the-future will arrive in Vegas.”
To Breer’s point, it feels like the “assumption” that Carroll is going to be back is not a popular assumption right now and Breer’s colleague at Sports Illustrated said last week that Mark Davis might be the only figure in the organization who can Carroll’s job.
“I think Pete is facing an upward battle to return to the Raiders,” Carpenter said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast.
“If I was forced to bet today, and I don’t bet on the game of football, but I’m here in Vegas, so that analogy fits, I would tell you that I just I don’t see a scenario. I, the only scenario that I believe in which Pete Carroll could keep his job is if he was able to talk Mark Davis and to sell Mark Davis on it. That being said, I just don’t see it happening.”
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I have lost faith in this organization to do the things that benefit the team and Raider Nation. It seems management always takes the path of most resistance and fail miserably. I keep hoping things will change since the hierarchy personal changes every year or two but things remain the same. Like Einstein said, “ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
I’m not buying any of that. They would be better off just keeping Olsen, if Dabolis is the best you can come up with. And why would anyone even think he, a failed head coach with a failed system might the heir apparent to Carroll. Nonsense.
Dabol was just fired by a team with a top pick QB in place. Before that, he had a young QB named Daniel Jones who eventually washed out, got released, and seemed to be a better player this year before his unfortunate injury. Yes, this does seem like the next step the Raiders would make.
Offensive Coordinator? WE NEED A NEW HEAD COACH. COACH BIDEN IS A DISGRACE!