The Raiders aren’t expected to stick with Pete Carroll beyond this season, but it sounds like they would also like to avoid paying Carroll the full amount of the contract he signed less than a year ago.
According to NBC Sports’ host Mike Florio, the rumor in NFL circles right now is that the Raiders would like to create a peaceful exit plan for Carroll where he isn’t officially fired, and the team can avoid paying out his full contract.
“Something has to change,” Florio wrote this week at ProFootballTalk.
“But will it? Coach Pete Carroll shouldn’t want to stay. The Raiders shouldn’t want him to stay. Current speculation, per a league source, centers on some sort of a negotiated resolution, pursuant to which Carroll ‘retires’ and gets a portion of what he’s owed. (The Raiders, we’re told, will be financially off the hook as to former coach Antonio Pierce, since he signed only a two-year deal when he got the job in 2024.)”
The next day, Florio addressed Tom Brady’s role in determining the next head coach in Las Vegas, and he believes the Raiders will have a hard time attracting top coaching candidates based on the way Josh McDaniels, Antonio Pierce and now Carroll will (most likely) be leaving the organization.
Florio’s suggestion was that Brady step away from a hands-on role and hire someone with experience.
“The Raiders have three more games to play before it’s time to make decisions,” Florio said.
“Brady, of course, won’t be available to roll up his sleeves and get to work on fixing the mess he helped make until after the NFC Championship, three weeks after the regular season ends.”
“The best first step could be, frankly, for Davis to entrust the football operation to someone who has the experience, the capability, and the time required to turn things around. Currently, it’s as bad as it’s ever been for a franchise that was once one of the proudest in the league.”
Assuming Brady doesn’t choose to scale down his role with the Raiders, it would at least be nice to see him take questions at some point.
To date, Brady has yet to acknowledge he is involved in football decisions, so it will probably be a while before he is willing to remove himself from a role he hasn’t been willing to admit he has in the first place.
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I agree with Florio hit I also don’t want a HC having final say on the roster.
Brady needs to stay away from this process, he’s already made us worse. I’m sure he had had his hand in bringing McDonalds here too
Maybe the national pundits will stop talking like Brady is going to somehow be some savior of the organization. I think Brady started drinking to kool-aid and found out they left the sugar out of it. He has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to hiring a coach. It’s easy to try to pluck the big name everybody is talking about. He could end up proving me wrong, but we’ll see. And yes he played a role in getting McDaniels hired. So technically he’s 0-2 in coach hirings.
Hey, hey, ho, ho coach Biden has to go.
Hey hey ho ho people who make fun of people who have age-related memory issues, dementia, or Alzheimer’s are the ones that must go!
Then what sane ones will be around to take care of the Bidens of the world?
If Brady steered Davis towards McDaniels and now this train wreck, Davis is a bigger idiot than anyone could have ever imagined and why would he all Brady to continue to run the football side.
I want to disassociate from all things Patriots, which includes McDaniels and Brady. Obviously Brady is a minority owner and so has a say in how things are run, but that does not necessarily mean football decisions. And please, no Gruden, either. Let’s not continue a string of failures on top of terrible decisions. We need to get back to our own identity as Raider Nation and smart, smashmouth football. Get an OL, a DL and win in the trenches. The rest will follow. And yes, it’ll take time, but we need to choose intelligent building rather than blaming or chasing failures.
Pete Carroll made his bed with his stubbornness. Refusing to fire his son, refusing to play Powers at center, getting rid of Jacobi and failure to bench Geno and try something else.