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The Raiders should move on from Pete Carroll.

This is something I'm sure 90% of the sub will agree with. The Raiders shouldn't keep Pete around. I know Mark Davis would be paying yet another coach not to coach for the Raiders, but the Raiders now have an opportunity to set them selves up for a better future.

If you look at all of the recently good teams, they have 2 things in common:

1. A young head coach.

2. A young QB.

The Bears, Texans, and Jags are all good examples of this:

  • Ben Johnson (Age 40) - Caleb Williams (Age 24) Record: 11-5
  • DeMeco Ryans (Age 41) - C.J. Stroud (Age 24) Record: 11-5
  • Liam Coen (Age 40) - Trevor Lawrence (Age 26) Record: 12-4

What we have:

  • Pete Carroll (Age 74) - Geno Smith (Age 35) Record 2-14

Nothing about that screams a future. Pete Carroll is stuck in his old ways, and has hired his sons who are clearly not cut out for the job. Geno Smith hit his ceiling with the Seahawks, and has regressed into oblivion.

If the Raiders are smart, they follow the trend this off season and wipe the slate clean. Hire a young coach whoever that may be, and let them chose Mendoza or Moore and build around that. The Bears, Texans and Jags have proven that this is what you need to succeed in the NFL as a struggling bottom tier team with no identity.

If Mark keeps Carroll around for year 2, odds are Carroll keeps Geno Smith as well. That would be doing nothing but setting us back another year. When Pete Carroll was hired, he said that this wasn't going to be a rebuild. That we were going to win a lot of games. Pete has failed at the task he was hired for.

Burn it down. Clean the slate. And lets go get our coach and QB of the future! We'll have 100M+ in cap space to build with as well.

Posted Dec 30, 2025, 8:56 PM UTC

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