“Yeah, I thought we needed a change. And I love Tom,” Las Vegas head coach Pete Carroll said when asked about the former special teams boss this past Monday. “He’s a great dude, and he’s done a great job for us. He’s a career ball coach, but I thought we just needed a change, and part of that is that I want to see what Derius does with it and see how he handles it. I mean, he’s done it before. He’s been in this situation before, he’s been a teams guy before, and he’s very well-versed. But I think it was time for a change there, and that’s why we did that.”
“Yeah, he’s very good communicator, very active on the field, hands on type of coach, really skilled in scheme,” Carroll added regarding Swinton. “There’s not time to change a bunch of our scheme at this point, but it’s to emphasize and focus on things that we think we needed to get better. And so, I’m hoping that the voice change will help us in that regard.”