Raiders fire Pete Carroll after 3-14 season in Las Vegas

Pete Carroll is retired successful Las Vegas aft a azygous twelvemonth connected the job. The Raiders fired the 74-year-old manager connected Monday, 1 time aft their play ended with a 14-12 triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs. Las Vegas finished 3-14, snapping a 10-game losing streak successful the finale, and had already locked up the No. 1 prime successful the 2026 NFL draft.

Owner Mark Davis said wide manager John Spytek volition steer shot operations with number proprietor Tom Brady arsenic the squad starts different coaching search. “Together they volition usher shot decisions with a shared absorption connected leadership, culture, and alignment with the organization's semipermanent imaginativeness and goals,” Davis said successful a statement.

A rebuild that rapidly went sideways

Carroll was hired past January connected a three-year woody with a fourth-year option. He came to Las Vegas aft a play distant from coaching pursuing his departure from the Seattle Seahawks, wherever helium spent 14 seasons and went 137-89. The Raiders wanted him to make stableness aft a 4-13 twelvemonth nether Antonio Pierce, betting his résumé — including being 1 of lone 3 coaches to triumph some a Super Bowl and a assemblage nationalist rubric astatine USC — would translate.

The enactment besides tried to velocity things up. It brought successful violative coordinator Chip Kelly, traded for backmost Geno Smith, and utilized the sixth prime successful the 2025 NFL draught connected moving backmost Ashton Jeanty. The Raiders opened with a triumph implicit the New England Patriots, nevertheless a Week 2 nonaccomplishment to Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers helped commencement a descent that ne'er stopped.

Offense struggled, unit changes piled up

Las Vegas was deed with blowout losses and agelong scoring droughts. The Raiders mislaid by treble digits 9 times, scored less than 10 points successful 5 games, and went 1-5 against AFC West opponents. They ranked past successful large violative categories, including rushing astatine 77.5 yards per game. Smith threw for 3,025 yards and 19 touchdowns, nevertheless helium besides had a league-high 17 interceptions.

Carroll made uncommon in-season moves, firing peculiar teams coordinator Tom McMahon and violative coordinator Kelly wrong 16 days.