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Paul Gutierrez
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders have reached an settlement with Pete Carroll to grew to become the franchise’s head coach on a three-year take care of a fourth-year staff choice, sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Carroll, who turns 74 on Sept. 15, is one among 4 head coaches to have led groups to each a university soccer nationwide championship and the Tremendous Bowl. The others are Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson and Jim Harbaugh.
Carroll can even be the Raiders’ fifth coach, together with interim coaches, for the reason that franchise moved to Las Vegas from Oakland in 2020. The others had been Jon Gruden, Wealthy Bisaccia, Josh McDaniels and Antonio Pierce.
Carroll would be the staff’s ninth coach, together with interims, since Raiders proprietor Mark Davis took over upon the demise of his father, Al Davis, in 2011. The others had been Hue Jackson, Dennis Allen, Tony Sparano, Jack Del Rio, Gruden, Bisaccia, McDaniels and Pierce.
As such, Carroll represents stability and expertise for a staff needing each, particularly since Gruden was pressured to resign amid his e-mail controversy in October 2021.
Carroll’s veteran presence is predicted to mesh nicely with first-time common supervisor John Spytek, who was finalizing a deal to hitch Las Vegas earlier within the week, in addition to compete in an AFC West division that already boasts teaching heavyweights in Kansas Metropolis (Andy Reid), Denver (Sean Payton) and Los Angeles Chargers (Harbaugh).
With the Seattle Seahawks, Carroll received Tremendous Bowl XLVIII and a pair of NFC titles, and made 10 playoff appearances in 14 years whereas going 137-89-1 within the common season, 10-9 within the postseason to turn out to be the winningest coach in Seahawks historical past. Together with his head teaching stints with the New York Jets, with whom he went 6-10 in 1994, and the New England Patriots, the place he went 27-21 in three seasons with a playoff look from 1997 to ’99, his profession document is 181-131-1.
After spending the 2000 season out of soccer and reshaping his teaching philosophy, Carroll was employed by USC, starting a dominant nine-year run that included seven consecutive Pac-10 titles, a pair of nationwide championships and a 97-19 document in 9 years, from 2001 to ’09, although NCAA sanctions adopted.
The Seahawks lured him away from USC in 2010 with the promise of ultimate say in personnel strikes, one thing he did not have in both of his two earlier head teaching stops.
Carroll is a defensive-minded coach who, together with Spytek, must handle the big variety of pending free brokers on that facet of the ball for Las Vegas. Amongst them: defensive ends Malcolm Koonce and Okay’Lavon Chaisson, linebackers Robert Spillane and Divine Deablo, cornerback Nate Hobbs and safeties Tre’von Moehrig and Marcus Epps.
Plus, the Raiders, who maintain the No. 6 total draft decide in addition to greater than $108 million in wage cap house, want an improve at quarterback, however return first-team All-Professional tight finish Brock Bowers.
The Raiders fired Pierce as coach and Tom Telesco as GM after one season collectively.
Pierce had been initially promoted from linebackers coach to interim coach upon the firing on Halloween night time 2023 of McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler after lower than two full seasons.
Las Vegas completed final within the AFC West with a 4-13 document that included a 10-game shedding streak, the franchise’s longest such skid in 10 years.
