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Pete Carroll expected to be fired Monday

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Flores is brady's choice, with daboll calling plays on offense. Flores will be like Pierce and bring back toughness, and team will play hard each week

just doesn't have a good track record working with Qb's, but Mendoza could work with daboll. this would be a decent attempt at starting a cleanup from the inferno brady and spytek created
 

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This is fukkin unreal about Pete Carroll's son

Pete Carroll’s decision to hire his son as the offensive line coach was one of his worst moves of the season, and it sounds like the players were very much underwhelmed by what Brennan Carroll was able to offer the team this year.


From Kahler and McFadden in their ESPN deep dive piece on the Raiders 2025 season…





“An agent of a Raiders offensive lineman said that his client told him the position group met multiple times on their own with Smith and Jeanty, and specifically without coaches, so the quarterback and running back could talk to them about how they wanted the offensive line to create blocks.


‘It was that bad,’ the agent told ESPN. ‘They were meeting on their own and trying to figure it out together, which I have never heard of in my history of working in this league.’


‘There is some sort of nepotism going on,’ a fourth agent of a Raiders player said.


The agent also said his client said that Brennan Carroll rushed players through individual drills at practice and didn’t teach them what they were trying to achieve in specific drills.”





“Right tackle DJ Glaze and rookie tackle Charles Grant confirmed that the offensive line met with Smith and Jeanty at least twice a week since OTAs without the coaching staff involved but said it was to develop chemistry among each other.



‘It’s only so much you can do with your coaches throughout the day,’ Glaze told ESPN. ‘So we would just get together to go over different things, get a little bit more chemistry and understanding each position during the week.’


Glaze told ESPN there were times when the unit didn’t know who was starting until the Saturday before a game because the coaching staff wanted to see how the competition played out during the week and whether a player would be available due to injury.


‘This offensive line coach is the biggest issue with this team,’ said the agent of a Raiders offensive lineman in December. ‘Everybody knows and nobody talks about it because it’s Pete’s son. Everyone talks about it behind the scenes, no one talks about it publicly.’


‘Just like anything, you know where issues are,’ a team source said. ‘Guys stay pretty professional. Some stuff is like an elephant in the room, but guys keep a poker face [and] keep on working.’


When asked about Brennan Carroll and his communication, several Raiders offensive linemen deflected from pointing fingers at their coach, and instead told ESPN that injuries complicated their performance.”






Looking back, Carroll’s 2025 coaching staff might have been one of the worst assembled coaching staffs in recent history – even including the 31 other teams.


Carroll essentially hijacked Patrick Graham’s defense and it sounds like Chip Kelly was running the offense this year with input from every direction.


Carroll clearly wasn’t happy with Kelly from the start, and the added dynamic of Kelly working with Carroll’s son, who doubled as the Raiders’ run game coordinator, seemed to turn a messy situation into an abject disaster.


Tom Brady played a role in the chaos, as well, as some believe Kelly answered directly to Brady about the offense and GM John Spytek was apparently the no. 3 man in charge behind Carroll and Brady.


The Raiders will have a new coach in the next few weeks, and it’s going to be interesting to see how the coaching staff comes together and whether Brady will look to hire more people in the building that are comfortable with him dictating from a distance.


There have been countless calls for Brady to dedicate more of his time to running the team, but based on Spytek’s comments on Monday, it doesn’t sound like the seven-time Super Bowl champion will be adjusting his role anytime soon.


For that reason and others, look for Brady to settle on a head coach he knows a little better than he knew Carroll going into the 2025 season.


Brian Flores has been floated as a possible candidate and that would be a scenario that probably makes a lot of sense to Brady – even though Flores would come with major risks of his own.
 
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