The Las Vegas Raiders were a bad football team in 2024 under Antonio Pierce. Not only did the team go on a 10-game losing streak at one point in the year and suffer some brutal defeats, but drama surrounded the organization throughout the campaign.
Owner Mark Davis made the sensible decision to move on from the first-time head coach, and he replaced him with Pete Carroll, a model of consistency and competence. Only through the first five weeks of the 2025 NFL season, however, it has been more of the same under Carroll's tutelage.
In fact, some could even argue that the turmoil of a Carroll and John Spytek-led Raiders team has been worse than that of a Pierce and Tom Telesco-led squad.