Pete is Coach of the Raiders!!!!

[HawkRiderFan]

“Let’s roll” works.

Beat me to it!

 

[nanomoz]

Good for you, coach. I wish him nothing but the best.

Exactly. I hope there is a clause in his contract that prevents Davis from meddling directly with players.

 

[Maelstrom787]

He has 3 years to try and compete with the Chiefs, Broncos, and Chargers as the coach of one of the most incompetent franchises in football. Good luck with that.

Hard task for any coach. Tom Brady and I will take the proven builder of reputable organizations who wins everywhere he goes.

 

[flv2]

Hard task for any coach. Tom Brady and I will take the proven builder of reputable organizations who wins everywhere he goes.

So who are you taking then?

 

[Seahawker]

Sean Payton is the youngest coach in that division, one week younger than Harbaugh. He's 61.

It's the Metamucil Division.

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Good to hear and good for him. They could do with some positivity and he’s a walking, talking slab of it. His ideas grew stale on the players in Seattle, but that was after 10+ years

Yes. Pollyanna Pete back in da house. Who isn’t jacked n pumped?

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Awesome hire for the Raiders! I hope he kills it there.

Only thing I'm curious about as far as the Seahawks are concerned is who he is going to bring in as his coordinators and coaches.

Waldron just gotta boner

 

[RockinHawks]

Never been but I heard it smells like vomit...

Vegas stinks because of all the food that gets thrown out daily, it sits in dumpsters and cooks in the heat. I grew up out there, it's also much prettier at night.

 

[CallMeADawg]

Hard task for any coach. Tom Brady and I will take the proven builder of reputable organizations who wins everywhere he goes.

Exactly.

Pit showing his classic bias and myopic worldview yet again.

 

[toffee]

Positive responses from Raiders fans on their version of .NET, Pete is off to a good start. Next, he couldn't afford to miscue the hiring of OC and DC.

Raiderforums • Pete Carroll is officially the Raiders HC

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[Fresno Hawk]

Good for Pete, if he feels like he can still coach than I wish him the best. Now him and Harbaugh can get the rival going again. I'm not sure Pete gets the best of Jimmy this time around.

 

[IndyHawk]

Also best way to pad his stats.

That too..
It bugs the shit out of me that he wouldn't do it here, I mean a lot of us
was yelling for him to do so back then.
I was shocked to see it start in Denver and he has gotten better with it to
now.

 

[Spin Doctor]

Mistake by the Raiders.

 

[Hawkinaz]

Who's his GM? Any info on how much control he will have? I believe Las Vegas cleaned out their FO a few weeks ago.

John Spytek who played with Tom Brady for 1 season at Michigan he was mostly a special teams player who than worked his way up the NFL scouting ladder, most recent was the assistant GM with Tampa Bay

Tom Brady knows him well, the big question I have is what will the power balance look like after New England Pete Carroll never wanted a GM between him and ownership. My guess Spytek will have final say

 

[Maelstrom787]

So who are you taking then?

Carroll, obviously.

 

[CPHawk]

Hoping he hires Hurtt as DC, and hires his son as OC

 

[Seak]

Russ in Vegas with Pete.
LET'S GAMBLE!
I crack me up.

I saw a funny one somewhere,
Let It Ride!

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Ooh, that's solid

 

[Spin Doctor]

Hard task for any coach. Tom Brady and I will take the proven builder of reputable organizations who wins everywhere he goes.

Except Brady wasn't the one who hired him. Tom Brady only has a 5 percent stake in the organization. He certainly was at the table, but at the end of the day Davis still has all of the decision making powers. In addition to this, Brady has never been part of an FO in any official capacity. He spent almost his whole career with just one coach too. We've seen former players make some horrendous decisions once they have FO powers. Being an executive is different than being a player and being a great player doesn't necessarily make you fit to evaluate talent. The inverse is also true, some of the best coaches out there have been flame outs in the NFL or even NCAA.

Carroll has also only built one successful NFL team and that of course the Seahawks. He was also over 15 years younger than he is now and had a more firm grasp on the direction of the NFL when he took over the Seahawks in 2010. Right now Carroll is the oldest coach in the NFL. To me this move only made sense if you're a team on the fringes of competing. The Raiders are not that team.

Carroll is going to be 74 at the start of the season. He hasn't fielded a top 10 defense since 2016, his playoff record is dismal since our last SuperBowl appearance and his choice in coordinators has been extremely bad. The only guy that was still working in the capacity that they were hired on the Seahawks was Schottenheimer. This, mind you is in a division filled with playoff caliber teams and established head coaches.

Carroll was a huge mistake, the long term prognosis here is awful and he's not the same guy that came into the league in 2010. He's not going to be very successful in Las Vegas.

 

[Rat]

The Raiders have filtered through a lot of coaches in recent years, some of them very young. A culture setter could be just what they need. I don't think every hire a team makes needs to be with the mindset that they'll be around for decades. He signed a three-year contract with a fourth year team option. If he has them in the right direction in 3-4 years, that job will be very attractive.