A pivotal offseason for the Las Vegas Raiders will now embody discovering a brand new head coach.
Pete Carroll was fired after one season within the position, the Raiders introduced Monday.
“Moving forward, General Manager John Spytek will lead all football operations in close collaboration with Tom Brady, including the search for the club’s next head coach,” proprietor Mark Davis mentioned in an announcement.
The Raiders went 3-14, tying them for the worst file within the NFL and giving them the No. 1 total decide in April’s draft.
That they had misplaced 10 video games in a row earlier than Sunday’s 14-12 victory over a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs crew that was all the way down to its third-string quarterback.
Las Vegas employed Carroll, 74, final January with the hope that the previous Tremendous Bowl and NCAA champion would supply stability for the rebuilding Raiders.
However the Raiders completed final in scoring (14.2 factors per recreation) and complete offense (245.2 yards per recreation) this season, throughout which Kelly was fired in November.
Carroll is now 173-134-1 in 19 NFL seasons as the pinnacle coach of the Jets, New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks and Raiders. He led Seattle to a Tremendous Bowl victory after the 2013 season.
He additionally received back-to-back NCAA championships as the pinnacle coach at USC in 2003-04.
Spytek, who’s coming into his second 12 months as Las Vegas GM, and Brady, a partial Raiders proprietor, at the moment are tasked with hiring the franchise’s fifth full-time head coach because the crew moved from Oakland in 2020.
That’s the first order of enterprise in an offseason during which the Raiders can even look to accumulate a franchise quarterback. That would very nicely be Heisman-winning Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza, who is predicted to be the No. 1 decide within the draft.
