The Las Vegas Raiders hired Pete Carroll this offseason to both rebuild the team's culture and compete right away. That experiment has brutally failed through seven games of the 2025 NFL season, as the team has experienced just as many 30+ point blowout losses as they have wins.
With an aging coach like Carroll, finding a successor is paramount. After all, Carroll is already the oldest coach in NFL history, and he'd be firmly in his late 70s if he finished his entire contract in Las Vegas. But the Raiders have no viable in-house candidates who could be the heir to the throne.