How this Raiders’ job compare to his first year in Seattle?
Pete Carroll spent 14 seasons, 2010-2023 with the Seattle Seahawks, in his last job before taking over as the Las Vegas Raiders head coach on Friday.
Carroll has a great run Seattle, who the team was dominant for a long search. He had a 137-89-1 record there with a Super Bowl win, two Super Bowl appearances and 10 playoffs appearances. He had three losing seasons there.
Carroll took for the fired Jim Mora after a 5-11 season in 2009 after he came to the Pacific Northwest in a celebrated move after a dynamic nine season run as the head coach at USC, where he won a national championship title.
It took a bit for Carroll, who coached by the New York Jets and New England Patriots in the 1990s, to get it going in the NFL. The Seahawks, whose first draft pick in the Carroll era was star safety Earl Thomas, were 7-9 in his first two seasons there.
Things took off for the Seahawks in 2-212 when they drafted Russell Wilson and went 11-15 in 2012 and went to the playoffs.
Seattle went the the Super Bowl after the next two seasons, winning once and losing once and it began a special time in Seattle where they were defined by Wilson, running back Marshawn Lynch, a nasty defense led by the Legion of Boom secondary and a deafening home-field advantage.
Carroll, who will be 74 in September, has a three-year contract (with a team option for a fourth), so all involved hope for a faster turnaround as he takes over the 4-13 Raiders. But his formula to success is Seattle is clear.
