The expectation is that the Raiders will fire head coach Pete Carroll at the end of the season, and according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, the team has already been looking around at their replacement options.
“Cleveland, Las Vegas, those are two places I see as, they’ve done their preliminary research for a potential move,” Fowler said on Tuesday. “It doesn’t mean they are locked in to doing it or have decided yet, but those [teams] are certainly on my radar.”
Coincidentally, Raider Nation Radio host Q Myers recently discussed the other coach Fowler believes is on the hot seat and Myers said he would welcome Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski to the Raiders if Cleveland decides to go in a different direction at head coach.
“[Kevin Stefanski] won’t be out of a job long if [the Browns] let him go. He’ll get picked up really quickly. That would be a coach that I’d definitely be interested in,” Myers said on the Locked on Raiders Squad Show podcast.
“I think Kevin Stefanski is a really good coach. I think the situation in Cleveland he did not want. I don’t think the situation in Cleveland that they have right now, Andrew Barry, the GM, wanted it,” Myers continued.
“That’s just from everything I know and the people that I know that are there are like, ‘This is not what it looks like from the outside.’ I think Kevin Stefanski is a really good head coach. I think he’ll have a handful of teams that are chasing him if he gets let go. Every year, there’s like what… seven, eight teams that have head coaching openings? Yeah, he’ll get swooped up quick.”
Between Stefanski and Carroll, it would seem from the outside that Stefanski has slightly better odds of keeping his job, but that’s only because it feels like Carroll’s fate has already been decided.
Another league insider, Tony Pauline, went a step further than Fowler, and sounded convinced the Raiders have made the call on Carroll’s future.
“Three separate sources have told me that Carroll won’t survive this disastrous season and will be let go soon after the final game against the Chiefs. These same sources tell me they expect Spytek to survive and remain general manager of the franchise,” Pauline reported on Monday.
“The situation at the Raiders facility has been described to me as a dumpster fire. Many of the top players in the organization want answers from the front office and feel they are wasting their careers in Las Vegas. While the players personally like Carroll, they believe there is a huge disconnect between the head coach and the front office on personnel and other matters that negatively affect game day and have led to just two wins after 16 games.”
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Would be awesome if the Raiders got Stefanski.
That would be great! Also, time to deal Crosby, as much as I hate to say it. Raiders need a complete rebuild, and Crosby would fetch a 1st round and 2nd, plus more i would imagine. Get rid of MD while your at it!
Agree, time to get some value out of Crosby, as he’s starting to wear down. But, seriously doubt that Mark will allow it as he lacks the courage to make the tough call and trade a player he’s grown accustomed to.
Should Raiders select a QB with 1st pick or 2nd, it would not be fair to a young QB’s development to be subjected to a coaching carousel
No difference in him coming in with a new HC or Carroll as HC, it would be new to him anyhow.
This losing season IS the best thing that could have possibly have happened to this team. NOW, a full scale reshaping must take place. So, let’s start with quarterback depth. My suggestions; go get Joshua Dobbs as the second string quarterback. He’s younger and more mobile than Geno and extremely battle tested. Next, go get Malik Willis as the starting quarterback. He’s young, mobile, plenty of upside and deserving of a starting role. Lastly, at the quarterback position, draft a young, mobile man with potential, who IS NOT under pressure to start right away. These moves will give the Raiders quarterback room plenty of experience, depth and longevity.
Next, the offensive line should be the priority. LOAD and I mean LOAD up on young bucks. Trade Kolton Miller for whatever they can get for him and start to heed Al Davis’ own edict; The greatness of the Raiders IS their future. After securing quarterback depth, NOTHING is more important than quarterback protection. Even current Raiders management can no longer ignore this. It’s all about priorities and anyone who saw last years Super Bowl knows that a substandard offensive line is what kept the Kansas City Chiefs from winning another Super Bowl.
THIS YEAR, those SHOULD BE the Raiders TOP TWO priorities. Rome wasn’t built in a day and the revitalization of this franchise won’t happen in one offseason either. Anyone who believes otherwise is delusional and only has to look at the past 10 years of the Raiders management teams attempts at quick fixes. It’s an old adage but it still rings true; slow and steady wins the race.
Additionally, get a couple of fullbacks who are tightend body types and USE them. In the past, Gruden almost killed Josh Jacobs through overuse. Don’t let that same thing happen to Ashton Genty. Learn from other’s past mistakes. On third and short, employ some common sense and fight bulk with bulk instead of killing your top flight runningback. It’s called THINKING. A bruising runningback in a tightend’s body is what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had in Mike Alstott, the San Francisco 49ers had in Tom Rathman, The Miami Dolphins had in Jim Kick. the Kansas City Chiefs had in Christian Okoye and the Dallas Cowboys had in Moose Johnston. Emulate tried, trusted, proven and successful practices.
One of the things that EVERY Raiders fan loved about Al Davis was the he WAS NOT passive. Al said that he wanted to dictate to other teams what the Raiders were going to do to them and NOT the other way around. Sadly, in my opinion, past Raiders coaches WERE NOT visionaries who knew how to dictate the narrative. THAT was what the Raiders did under Al Davis’ leadership. Not this passive, soft type of football that we see today. Instead of sucking up to keep their jobs and income, Raiders coaches need to buck up and push the envelope. That’s what Al did and while his flame remains the spirit of what he stood for has been lost. Al Davis said that he wanted to dominate, not just squeek by.
I’ve been a Raiders fan since 1968 and I remember a team that was hated by ALL and the envy of ALL other football teams and the GOLD standard that ALL OTHER football teams aspired to, with the possible exception of the Vince Lombardi lead Green Bay Packers. In my opinion, today’s coaches are soft and certainly don’t know how to control the narrative. John Madden said that he didn’t have a lot of rules but the ONE RULE that he did have was; “…play like Hell on Sunday.” Surely, THAT is MISSING from today’s Raiders with the notable exception of Maxx Crosby.