The Las Vegas Raiders have fired head coach Pete Carroll, the club announced Monday. The move comes one day after the club concluded a 3-14 season.
Team owner Mark Davis released this statement:
The Las Vegas Raiders have relieved Pete Carroll of his duties as head coach. We appreciate and wish him and his family all the best. 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. Together, they will guide football decisions with a shared focus on leadership, culture, and alignment with the organization's long-term vision and goals.
Carroll lasted just one disastrous season in the desert, a year in which offensive coordinator Chip Kelly was forced upon him; that arrangement lasted just 11 games.
One has to wonder if this will be it for Carroll, who in September became the oldest head coach in NFL history at 74 years old. After winning the Super Bowl in the 2013 season and coming oh-so-close in 2014, Carroll won just one playoff game in his final seven seasons in Seattle.
A member of the NFL's All-2010s Team, Carroll is one of three head coaches to win a college football national title and a Super Bowl. After a 97-19 run at USC from 2001-09, Carroll went 137-89-1 in Seattle and owns a 173-134-1 record in the NFL, including his one year in Vegas, one year with the New York Jets, and three years with the New England Patriots.
As for the Raiders, the one positive to come out of the short-lived Carroll era is that the club will pick first in this spring's draft.
Carroll is the third straight Raiders head coach to leave the club with a sub-.400 winning percentage, following Josh McDaniels's 9-16 mark from 2022-23 and Antonio Pierce's 9-17 record from 2023-24. Since Jon Gruden was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 2001 season, Jack Del Rio and Gruden 2.0 are the only coaches to last longer than two seasons with the club. The Silver and Black last reached the playoffs in 2021 and have not won a playoff game since defeating the Tennessee Titans in the AFC title game in the 2002 season.
Carroll is the 17th one-and-done NFL head coach since the turn of the century -- and the third Raiders coach.