OT: Pete Carroll Fired

[RolandDeschain]

What a crap way to go out. Oh well, you're a legend Pete. Enjoy retirement.

He should have enjoyed retirement after the Seahawks. It's sad to see a former great try to relive their glory days.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Yep. But why would someone say no to another NFL coaching gig? There's only 32 of those things. He gave it a shot, it didn't work. That team is a joke.

 

[Runscott]

Yep. But why would someone say no to another NFL coaching gig? There's only 32 of those things. He gave it a shot, it didn't work. That team is a joke.

Lots of great coaches have taken another job and done great, but taking the Raiders job was a mistake. The Raiders are 94-151 under Mark Davis' ownership, with two playoff games - both losses. They are a dumpster fire and I see no hope for them. They will ruin whichever quarterback they draft. Whoever it is should pull a John Elway or Eli Manning.

 

[Chapow]

The Raiders franchise is a dumpster fire. They don't often get included as on the same level as franchises like the Browns and Jets, but they very much are. They've only had 2 seasons in the last 20 with a record of over .500. They haven't won a single playoff game since 2002, and they've only even made the playoffs twice in that same time frame. After over 2 decades of sucking they still have very little to show for it. They have one of the worst rosters in the league. Bowers and Crosby are pretty much their only pro bowl level players.

Pete may be complicit in some of the decisions they made last off season, like spending a very high pick on a RB when they had far more pressing needs, but these are the types of things the Raiders have been doing for decades regardless of who their coach is.

I agree that Pete should probably move on from trying to coach at the NFL level, but I also don't think he ever had much of a chance for success in LV with that horrible, dysfunctional, incompetent mess of a franchise.

 

[gmor]

Not For Long if you don't win.

 

[seabowl]

Ultimately, it was his stubbornness to accept that his philosophy just doesn’t work anymore. We saw it here the last few yearsin Seattle and now the Raiders saw it as well.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

WAY too loyal too.

 

[FreshBoxLive]

Not Pete problem lol. More like a poverty franchise with a moron owner problem. He inherited the worst roster in league. He was hired too late to do anything with the roster besides get geno. Mark my words. The raiders will always be awful under Mark Davis.

 

[Maelstrom787]

Yep. But why would someone say no to another NFL coaching gig? There's only 32 of those things. He gave it a shot, it didn't work. That team is a joke.

He wouldn't be competing if he weren't lobbying for jobs.

This year was a sobering reminder that nothing lasts forever. Even legends eventually gotta let go.

 

[Ruminator]

They're sooo close! (And they might need to replace Crosby pretty soon, too.)

 

[SoulfishHawk]

He wouldn't be competing if he weren't lobbying for jobs.

This year was a sobering reminder that nothing lasts forever. Even legends eventually gotta let go.

Yep, it has been time for a while.

 

[Seahawker]

I think the Raiders drafting Jeanty #6 overall and then picking WR Jack Bech in the 2nd round is the strongest evidence of why we went on an almost 9 year draft skid.
John's early years in Seattle and now his most recent work since the regime change have been masterclass efforts. Let's just say JS doesn't strike me as a guy who opens up the bank vault and gives up two 1st's for a former probowl vet past their prime.
Thank you Broncos & thank you Raiders for helping us get through purgatory... And Thank You JS for gutting it out under less than optimal circumstances and getting us right back to the top.

 

[AnimeAmore]

He was given a gentle nudge out of Seattle because he was too respected to just be fired. That was his chance to end on a decent (if still disappointing) note.
He didn't want to hang it up, and he managed to get paid a crap ton of money for only coaching one season in Vegas. His bank account is healthier, but his reputation is not. At this point I don't even think he would make a decent D coordinator, so what exactly would he have to offer another team? Someone close to Gramps needs to convince him to retire.

 

[JayhawkMike]

His time in Vegas was a complete success to me. No way we’d be able to dump Geno if he wasn’t there. Great job.

 

[oldhawkfan]

Does this mean Pete can come back to fulfill his “team advisor” duties?

 

[MORGULON]

No. He should have let lynch run the ball and then rode off into the sunset on back to back Super Bowl wins. In hindsight, his flaws were already starting to show that year, the impact of those flaws was just massively accelerated by the fallout.

Great post Tip tip tiparoo.

That would've been the proper way

 

[toffee]

Father time is kind of fair, Pete Carroll, Bill Belicheck, Lewis Hamilton, when your time is up, your are done.

 

[CouchLogic]

This is one of a handful of teams that will never win anything of note. Once a decade they'll sneak into the playoffs, then head right back to the basement for a other generation of fans to waste time/money on. Pathetic.

 

[warden]

Maybe the problem in Las Vegas is not the coaching

 

[warden]

Every second year, new coach.