It’s been a long time since Pete Carroll has faced as much criticism as he is getting this week, but with respect to the Raiders head coach who will one day be in the Hall of Fame, he has made a lot of decisions this year that haven’t made sense.

For reasons no one seems to know, a lot of Carroll’s head-scratching decisions this year have involved the offensive line, and this week he added another.

Raider Nation Radio host Q Myers talked about the team’s decision to leave third-round pick Caleb Rogers off the active roster on Monday against the Cowboys, and he was a confused as everyone on the outside.

“You draft a guy in the top 100, and that’s the first three rounds, you’re expecting to get some kind of burn out of him,” Myers said on the Locked on Raiders Squad Show podcast.

“Right now, if you get a quarterback, and he’s going to sit for a year or something, okay, that’s one thing. But if you get a running back, you get a wide receiver, and you get a couple offense alignment in the top 100, you expect those guys to make some kind of plays, some kind of production for you in their rookie year, and they’re just not getting that.”

“And that is what the problem is going back to even Caleb Rogers being a healthy scratch on Monday. It just blew my mind that you’re going to bring up a guy from the practice squad and put him on the active 53-man roster when you have a dude who’s been ready, he worked a lot in college. It’s not like this is some guy that didn’t get burn in college. I mean, Caleb Rogers, go back and look, he’s like a super senior there in college,” Myers continued.

“So he had plenty of experience. And yeah, I know the NFL is a different ball game. But how do you know what you have in one of the positions that’s most important and critical to your team and obviously one of the biggest failures of your team, if they’re not getting play? And that leads me back to the conversation I’ve been having for weeks, maybe even months now, that everyone is not on the same page. The idea of the GM and the head coach, probably the offensive coordinator, they’re not all sharing the same ideas.”

Every indication has been that Rogers had a bad practice last week, and at least one report on the situation hinted that his issue involved the mental aspect of the position.

If that sounds familiar, that’s because there was a similar story that was coming from the Raiders’ building in August about Jackson Powers-Johnson. Powers-Johnson later proved to be one of the team’s best offensive linemen before an ankle injury knocked him out for potentially the remainder of the season.

A week ago, it looked like only Chip Kelly was on the hot seat in Las Vegas, but it is feeling increasingly more likely that Carroll’s job is not safe, either.

Sports Illustrated insider Albert Breer talked about the Raiders’ coaching situation this week and he thinks changes could be coming, but those decisions will rest largely on Tom Brady.

“Do I think Pete Carroll is completely safe? Probably not,” Breer said on Thursday.

I just think Tom Brady’s influence in that place is an important thing and I don’t know what his level of patience is going to be. We have no track record on that.”

While Breer is correct that Brady’s influence will be an important detail, it’s no secret that he was one of the strongest voices in the Raiders’ building in favor of moving on from Antonio Pierce.

So there is a track record when it comes to Brady’s level of patience.

Carroll wasn’t Brady’s first choice to be the Raiders’ head coach in January, so it will be interesting to see where he stands on the situation two months from now.

And speaking of Brady, and who he does and does not favor…

On Sunday, the Raiders will host the Browns at Allegiant Stadium where they will face the quarterback Tom Brady passed on seven times in the 2025 draft.

That ought to be an interesting storyline to discuss the morning after.

x: @raidersbeat