The AFC West underwent a dramatic shakeup on Friday with the arrival of Pete Carroll as Las Vegas Raiders head coach – rekindling his longstanding rivalry with Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh in the process.
The Los Angeles Chargers have been enjoying a quiet, strong coaching-hiring cycle so far this offseason. Breakout defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, after all, isn’t getting many looks. A fast-riser under general manager Joe Hortiz continues to get some looks,
Now that Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh are in the same division again, get ready for more amazing battles between two coaches who have always made each other better. Coke and Pepsi. Ali and Frazier.
Carroll, 73, is set to return to the NFL sideline as a head coach for the first time since the conclusion of the 2023 regular season.
Pete Carroll accepted the lead job with the Las Vegas Raiders, once again pitting him against long-standing rival Jim Harbaugh.
The Raiders' new head coach has found success over the years against these other in-division coaches, with a career total 10 wins against Reid, Payton and Harbaugh. This includes an NFC Championship victory over Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 season.
The four AFC West head coaches—Andy Reid, Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton, and Pete Carroll—now have a combined 20 Conference Championship appearances and nine Super Bowl appearances. https://t.co/t0myQXaeI6
The Las Vegas Raiders are naming Pete Carroll as their next head coach, multiple media outlets reported Friday.
An old clip of supposed tension between Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh resurfaces after the Raiders hire Carroll as their next head coach.
After a year away from the game, former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is officially returning to football. On Friday morning it was announced the Las Vegas Raiders were signing the Seahawks legend to be their next head coach.
The Las Vegas Raiders own claim to one of the most famous stanzas in NFL Films history -- "the Autumn Wind is a pirate, blustering in from sea, with a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously" -- owing in large part to the incredible history of the franchise in NFL annals.