{"id":151432,"date":"2025-06-23T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/151432\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:55:12","slug":"pete-carroll-names-biggest-reason-why-he-came-out-of-retirement-to-join-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/151432\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Carroll Names Biggest Reason Why He Came Out of Retirement to Join Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Carroll Names Biggest Reason Why He Came Out of Retirement to Join Raiders<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis fired head coach Antonio Pierce at the beginning of the 2025 NFL offseason after a four-win season in 2024. In a corresponding move, he hired Super Bowl-winning head coach Pete Carroll to replace him.<\/p>\n

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Carroll made previous stops with the New York Jets, New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. After 18 years as a head coach in the NFL, however, he spent the 2024 football season on the sidelines, not coaching.<\/p>\n

However, he made his return with the Raiders and has spoken at length during the team’s offseason program about how rejuvenated he is to be back. The 73-year-old is already making the most of what seems to be his final NFL head coaching gig.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, Carroll broke his silence about why he decided to come out of retirement and join the Raiders. He revealed this information<\/a> on an episode of the Get Got Pod with Marshawn Lynch and Mike Robinson.<\/p>\n

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“There was a little bit of interest you know, college too. There was some stuff going on back and forth. And the more I got around it, the more I felt the passion growing. The way I would say it, I was in the pursuit of my passion,” Carroll said. “It has never been anything but fun. Fortunately, it worked out. You know, a couple of crazy things happened right around the end of it. But the Raiders thing when Tom [Brady] joined up, that really made a difference to me. That shifted my gears a little bit.“<\/a><\/p>\n

Brady entered the fold for the Raiders last fall when he bought a minority stake in the team. In his first offseason with the franchise, he has already laid a major claim in the team’s personnel decisions.<\/p>\n

He was integral in the hiring of Carroll, and signed off on the acquisitions of quarterbacks Geno Smith via trade and Cam Miller in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Carroll spent many years as the head coach of the Seahawks competing against Brady on both the Patriots and Buccaneers. During that time, Carroll clearly established a deep respect for Brady, as he was admittedly a key cog in getting Carroll to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Related: Las Vegas Raiders Make Final Training Camp Decision<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Maxx Crosby Compares Raiders to Tom Brady-Led Patriots<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 22, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Carroll Names Biggest Reason Why He Came Out of Retirement to Join Raiders originally appeared on Athlon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065],"tags":[12632,1364,211,3398,7,1507,6496,1744,393,2455,2454,12080,311,249,255,6,3976,525,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-151432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-antonio-pierce","9":"tag-brady","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-cam-miller","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-geno-smith","14":"tag-head-coach","15":"tag-las-vegas","16":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","17":"tag-lasvegas","18":"tag-lasvegasraiders","19":"tag-mark-davis","20":"tag-marshawn-lynch","21":"tag-new-england-patriots","22":"tag-new-york-jets","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-pete-carroll","25":"tag-raiders","26":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114730665504269391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}