The Pete Caroll tenure in Las Vegas was quite short.
The Pete Carroll era only lasted one season with the Las Vegas Raiders. The team announced on Monday that they were firing Carroll after a 3-14 finish. The Raiders beat the Kansas City Chiefs 14-12 in their regular season finale but had dropped 10 straight before that. The next coach of Las Vegas will have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft. The team will retain general manager John Spytek, who was hired with Carroll, and he will lead the team’s football ops with minority owner Tom Brady that will include the search for Carroll’s successor.
It will mark the Raiders’ sixth head coach since 2021, and Jon Gruden is the last coach to remain for at least two seasons. It’s the first time for Carroll that he’s been fired in his first year with a team since the New York Jets did just that in 1994. Unfortunately, he just wasn’t able to establish a culture that translated into wins in one year’s time in Las Vegas. The team believed that the Super Bowl and college national title winner was poised to do that. Instead, this season has been a spiral.
Here is the full story from Raiders Roundtable writer Nick Radosevich on the decision to let go of Carroll and what’s next for Las Vegas.
The dysfunction certainly showed this year. Carroll had never fired a coach midseason during his long tenure with the Seattle Seahawks. In a 16-day span this year back in November, Carroll fired both special teams coordinator Tom McMahon and offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. The team ranked near or at the bottom in every meaningful offensive coordinator, and didn’t fare any better defensively.