{"id":489404,"date":"2025-01-24T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489404"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:07:26","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-hire-pete-carroll-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/las-vegas-raiders-hire-pete-carroll-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders hire Pete Carroll as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders have reached an agreement on a 3-year contract with a 4-year franchise option to be the organization\u2019s new boss.<\/p>\n<p>Pete (73) is 1 of 4 head coaches to have led franchises to both a college football national championship and the Super Bowl. The remaining managers are Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson, and Jim Harbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>He helped shape USC into a national champion, and then he went to the Seahawks and spent 14 campaigns with the team. Seattle appeared 10 times in the postseason during his time and played at 2 conference championships and the organization\u2019s only Super Bowl triumph.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SOURCES: The Las Vegas Raiders have hired Pete Carroll as the team\u2019s next head coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VicTafur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@VicTafur<\/a> confirms.<\/p>\n<p>His hiring means that when he coaches his first game in September, he\u2019ll be the oldest head coach in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P8y5iursh8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/P8y5iursh8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lYfhSnUiE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4lYfhSnUiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1882818045674180891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas dismissed Antonio Pierce after his 1<sup>st<\/sup> full campaign as boss earlier this month as he finished 4-13.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll will be Las Vegas\u2019 5<sup>th<\/sup> manager since relocating to Las Vegas from Oakland 5 years ago and their 9<sup>th<\/sup> since Mark Davis became owner after the death of his father in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Pete is the winningest manager in the Seahawks history, with a record of 137-89-1 and 10 postseason wins. He also led the Jets and the Patriots during his career in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders have reached an agreement on a 3-year contract with a 4-year franchise option to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":489405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16755,17324,23407],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18120,17873,23408],"acf":{"announce":"Carroll agreed a 3-year deal with the Raiders to become the new boss.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489406,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489404\/revisions\/489406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489404"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489404"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}