NFL insider Adam Schefter reveals Pete Carroll's job as Raiders HC is in jeopardy after disappointing debut season

Pete Carroll was supposed to be the man who would return the Las Vegas Raiders to playoff contention in the 2025 season. Instead, he is seemingly about to pay the price for a massive letdown.

Entering Week 18, the Silver and Black is a league-worst 2-14, not helped by a stunning regression from Geno Smith. Ashton Jeanty has not been able to prove why he was the premier running back prospect of the 2025 draft, Jakobi Meyers was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars midseason, and the defense has not been stellar.

And Adam Schefter believes change is soon to come. On Friday's episode of Pat McAfee's eponymous show, he said:

"We've had two head coaching changes already (Tennessee Titans and New York Giants). I would anticipate that we get four to five more. Obviously, been a lot of conversation about Las Vegas."

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In fact, Bleacher Report's Brad Gagnon already has a prediction for Carroll's replacement - Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak:

"His offensive approach makes a lot of sense in Vegas with a rookie quarterback. You know he'd emphasize running back Ashton Jeanty to take pressure off of whoever is drafted, and he would provide a much-needed breath of fresh air to the Raiders."

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Pete Carroll gets candid on stint as Raiders HC ahead of season fianle

At 74 years of age, Pete Carroll is the oldest head coach in the NFL and has seen and experienced all that there is to see and experience. Yet his tenure in Nevada has given him some new insights, as he put it on Friday:

"What have I learned? How much I don't like it. Disappointed that I could be. I've never even dreamed it would be like this, but what I have learned, and it kind of has to go with what the other question was, is that these guys will continue to work and they'll stay with it. It's just because they don't want to accept it."

He continued:

“They want to only focus on the next opportunity that's coming up, which is kind of how we think and that something good's just about to happen, and they've acted like that, and they've bounced back. ... And they're doing it. And so, I could see teams really being in trouble right now."

The Raiders end their season against the also-eliminated Kansas City Chiefs. Kickoff is at 1:25 pm PT on CBS.

Edited by Andre Castillo