The Raiders fell to 2-10 after Sunday’s 31-14 loss to the Chargers, and they are now officially eliminated from playoff contention.

Without question there is a roster rebuild coming for the Raiders in the offseason and there could be major changes coming to the coaching staff, too.

It was reported this weekend that Carroll is on the ‘hot seat’ in Las Vegas and will need to show some level of progress in the final five games of the season to keep his job.

The reality, though, is that the Raiders were a disaster long before Pete Carroll was hired and Antonio Pierce said on Sunday that the decision-makers in the building need to start looking at themselves.

“I was there last year with the Raiders. We didn’t have a good offense. They still don’t have a good offense. The fan base is upset. You’re talking about long seasons? It’s probably going to take decades to fix this bad boy,” Pierce said on CBS Sports’ NFL Today.

“I’m just saying, one and done, one and done, done and done. Is there another coach gone? There’s going to be something I talk about a little later where everybody is pointing fingers. At some point you point there, the thumb points back.”

Pierce didn’t clarify who he was talking about, but he obviously believes someone above the head coach is responsible for the team’s ongoing failures on the field.

The only people on the football side of operations in Las Vegas that have more authority than Carroll are owner Mark Davis, minority owner Tom Brady and GM John Spytek.

It is possible Pierce was talking about Davis, but there is a growing sentiment that Brady has been given the keys to the organization from a decision-making standpoint.

Brady made a push to fire Pierce a year ago and Pierce has made comments acknowledging he is aware of that.

Most around the team don’t prefer to put Brady’s name on reports, but it seemed clear on Saturday who Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter was referring to as the figure looming over Chip Kelly and the coaching staff this year.

“Everybody has bosses,” Carpenter said on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast, talking about Kelly and Carroll. “I’ve been saying this now since the season started and I think it’s starting to resonate with people what exactly I’m saying with that other than it’s extremely obvious.”

Carpenter has been critical of Kelly and Carroll, but he has been saying for a while that they have been answering to “bosses” on a number of key decisions this year.

Not everyone is pointing the finger at Brady, though

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported this week on the power structure within the Raiders’ building and he has been hearing that Carroll was the “boss” who sabotaged Kelly’s plan on offense this season.

Kelly made mistakes, but Rapoport said the veteran offensive coordinator wasn’t running his own offense.

“Talking to people who know this offense very well, people who have studied this offense and played against it, they do not believe that it was Chip Kelly’s offense,” Rapoport said on Sunday.

“They believe it was Pete Carroll’s offense, Specifically, the Pete Carroll offense from Seattle [in] 2023. It sounds to me like if Chip Kelly could do this again, he would not have taken this job.”

The good news for Kelly is that he didn’t answer to any bosses on Sunday and he will walk away with $18 million in his bank account when the dust settles on his 11-game tenure in the desert.

Not a bad paycheck for 31st-ranked offense in the league.

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