The Las Vegas Raiders adding head coach Pete Carroll to an AFC West that already includes Andy Reid with the Kansas City Chiefs and Sean Payton with the Denver Broncos is a dominant conversation right now.
The AFC West underwent a dramatic shakeup on Friday with the arrival of Pete Carroll as Las Vegas Raiders head coach – rekindling his longstanding rivalry with Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh in the process.
Pete Carroll accepted the lead job with the Las Vegas Raiders, once again pitting him against long-standing rival Jim Harbaugh.
The Raiders' new head coach has found success over the years against these other in-division coaches, with a career total 10 wins against Reid, Payton and Harbaugh. This includes an NFC Championship victory over Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 season.
The four AFC West head coaches—Andy Reid, Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton, and Pete Carroll—now have a combined 20 Conference Championship appearances and nine Super Bowl appearances. https://t.co/t0myQXaeI6
The Las Vegas Raiders are naming Pete Carroll as their next head coach, multiple media outlets reported Friday.
After a year away from the game, former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is officially returning to football. On Friday morning it was announced the Las Vegas Raiders were signing the Seahawks legend to be their next head coach.
The Las Vegas Raiders own claim to one of the most famous stanzas in NFL Films history -- "the Autumn Wind is a pirate, blustering in from sea, with a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously" -- owing in large part to the incredible history of the franchise in NFL annals.
After battling for supremacy in the Pac-10 and the NFC West, Carroll and Harbaugh are now set to square off in the AFC West.
Now that Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh are in the same division again, get ready for more amazing battles between two coaches who have always made each other better.
The Raiders' hiring of Pete Carroll creates a decorated group of head coaches in the AFC West, full of Super Bowl and National Championship winners.