When and The place: Week 15 at dwelling
Final season: Antonio Pearce received fewer video games in a full season in 2024 than he did because the interim coach in 2023.
Added: Alex Cappa, Geno Smith, Jeremy Chinn, Eric Stokes, Elandon Roberts
Misplaced: Trevon Moehrig, Jack Jones, Andre James, Divine Deablo, Gardner Minshew, Alexander Mattison
Gamers added or misplaced so as of snaps performed final season.
High draft picks: Ashton Jeanty, Jack Bech
Greatest query going through this staff: What precisely is the plan?
Mark Davis is a clown proprietor. Bringing in Tom Brady to rent Ben Johnson failed. However Pete Carroll, who has taken the earlier two groups he has coached from out of the doldrums to profitable a title, brings on the spot credibility, even when it doesn’t work out. It most likely received’t work out.
Carroll is now the oldest coach within the historical past of the NFL. This man shouldn’t be ready round for a multi season rebuild. The Raiders are usually not in place for a brief time period rebuild. That they had no QB, in order that they went out and obtained 34 12 months outdated Geno Smith, reuniting him with Carroll, the place in two seasons they went 9-8 twice and obtained blown out of their solely playoff sport.
Attaining even that will likely be a troublesome feat in 2025. The Raiders play in a troublesome division, in three of the previous 4 seasons 9 wins would get you third place within the AFC West, and it might take a Patrick Mahomes ACL tear to have any likelihood of ending 1st.
Brock Bowers is great and Ashton Jeanty ought to be too, however the remainder of this offense isn’t adequate to play at a excessive stage. And the teaching isn’t both. To run his offense Carroll employed Chip Kelly, who ended his NFL profession dropping 16 straight video games towards groups not coached by Jeff Fisher, and going 26 straight video games with out his offense scoring 30 factors.
The Raiders may win 8 video games, doubling their win whole from final 12 months, and will probably be a powerful job by Carroll. However then the place do they go from there? Or possibly by the point this sport rolls round they’ll be stumbling to a 6 win season and Mark Davis is on his third coach in three seasons.
