How Pete Carroll Can Transform The Raiders (DETAILED BREAKDOWN)

Hello everybody come one come all to another live stream dare I say The first Raider live stream in a long time That feels a little positive Too much to ask greater nation. I don't know what say you We'll talk about the vibes that are pretty immaculate right now. Thanks to Pete Carroll I just want to say something up top. I was about to hit the go live button and I sneezed like a hundred thousand times So I'm a little nasally. I apologize. I might have to blow my nose at some point. I even feel sneeze coming on right now I apologize for all that. But if you're watching this live on bleacher report, my name is Rodney. Thank you so much for coming back Let's make sure we're getting this chat rocking and rolling because I know people are excited or maybe not For the Pete Carroll of it all if you're watching after the fact on YouTube hit that like button comment away We're gonna be reading all of those Where do I get that floating rare helmet? It was a gift from my father I think he just got an NFL calm if you type in like floating Anti-gravity NFL helmet you could probably find it. It's like $70 or something like that. It's pretty sweet. Thank you, daddy so Pete Carroll not officially officially, but pretty officially The next head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders now, I did a video a month ago maybe not a month ago, but when excuse me when AP was rumored to get fired and Pete Carroll was somebody that I said look out for Pete Carroll if they're gonna go the experience route I said him and Bruce Arians and people immediately want to talk about the age, right and I totally understand 73 is old for coaching in the National Football League. It's actually the oldest a Coach has ever been and I get it. This is a cliche to say ages, but a number it doesn't matter however, I think sometimes cliches are cliches because They make a lot of sense and in this instance, and I know everybody said this you've never seen a Younger 73 year old I would argue That Pete Carroll at 73 is in better shape than Andy Reid at 66. There's no shot to Andy Reid I think that's just the facts. So as I get into my vibe check With everybody watching you beautiful people watching on bleacher report live. I'm gonna tell you my thoughts on this hire Instantaneously, I'm not gonna shy away from the fact and let's make sure vote I'm not gonna shy away from the fact That Ben Johnson was my number one option. I'm not now going to say actually Pete Carroll's better in my opinion I'm not doing that. I could tell how amazing I am. It's ridiculous However, my second option and I was in lockstep with the Raiders, I guess Was Pete Carroll because if you're not gonna get the wonderkin, you know, 38 year old hotshot play caller Let's go get a national champion Let's go get a Super Bowl champion One of the most decorated coaches of the last decade To get this train back on the tracks. Is this the flashiest hire of all time? No, I don't you'd still pretty flashy But this is literally I'm gonna be saying this a lot get the train on the freakin tracks Get somebody in here as good as I think Ben Johnson's going to be we don't know if he knows what he's doing We have no idea We know exactly what we're getting with Pete Carroll You're gonna play your tail off on defense You're gonna run the football and pound the rock with a couple solid running backs and you're gonna make life extremely easy for the quarterback now what's very important is Getting the right offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator in place and There has been some reports already about maybe a potential OC a potential DC blah blah blah So I'm gonna read that to you as of right now Okay, but I just want to put this whole kibosh on the age thing Because number one at 73 he'll be 74 He signed a three-year deal three years three years to get this train on the tracks with a fourth-year option if he decides to take that option or if we Decide to take that option. That's four years To write this ---- people go. Well, they don't have a quarterback We'll get to the quarterback in a second. But anyone that's saying they don't have a quarterback Look me in the eyes, please. Stop saying that we're not playing games tomorrow If I told you this time last year Kirk Cousins wouldn't be on the Vikings You would say got a lot of weapons and Kevin O'Connell King can call a heck of an offense But who's their quarterback? Smash cut to 14 wins in one game away from the 1c in the NFC East or the NFC. Here we are I promise you spy tech and Brady and Geno Smith spy tech was officially officially not said to be the GM Have a plan in place to be competitive right away They're not gonna bottom out for Arch Manning or that they don't want to maybe they will maybe it'll go Completely off the rails, but they don't want to bottom out spy tech has said I don't want to bottom out And they did that with Baker Mayfield, they flipped the script on the rebuild Pete Carroll, I think in Seattle his lowest win total was seven Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's the case to Sean Reid Tweeted a couple hours ago Okay Raiders head coach Pete Carroll Insane to say out loud Top priority is hiring coaching staff and then he breaks down potential offensive defensive candidates Now I've seen some people saying they don't really know who they're gonna get Offense they don't want it to be Shane Waldron because we don't want to do another OC from the Bears that got fired to bring in like Luke Getzey. No, thank you Shane Waldron And I've seen some people say oh, they don't want to do Ken Dorsey or Gus Bradley cover three But don't break defense again, and I don't want to do that either he follows up this tweet to Sean with Dolphins quarterback coach and passing coordinator Daryl Bevel has a strong chance to land the Raiders offensive coordinator job per sources But they'll interview others and that could change The DC coordinator position is wide open Vegas must interview two diverse candidates for both roles plus one diverse QB coach to satisfy the Rooney rule So let's talk about that real fast the DC options, right? He said it's wide open. I think that does not bode well for guys like Ken Norton or Gus Bradley I think he's gonna look for a younger more aggressive defensive coordinator I don't have any names in mind at this current juncture Dennis Allen would have been nice. I don't know if he's officially part of the Ben Johnson regime Be nice to steal someone on our side for once but if you have any defensive coordinator options out there Put them in the comments below but Daryl Bevel for the ones who don't know He's the quarterback coach or the Dolphins or the passing coordinator and they have a great pass game He was the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks 2011 to 2017 He was the orchestrator of the offense Opposite the Legion of Boom that got to Super Bowl after Super Bowl at the playoff appearance at the division win 55 years old Not a bad option. Not a bad option to come in here. And again make the life Extremely easy of whoever is going to be the quarterback So as I hop into the chat here and as I end this poll The vibe check is great higher or solid plan B. Nobody's skeptical. Nobody's not happy And of course, yes This can go completely wrong and Pete Carroll could come out one day and be like look like Joe Biden, right? Just very old out of nowhere. I do think He's a pretty good shape and he's addicted to the game and I do think he can get this train on the tracks Be competitive day one. I don't think we're gonna win 12 games with him I don't think we're gonna have a commander's type flip, right? But if we can get seven eight nine wins build this thing Keep a consistent quarterback there or draft someone to learn under a blank blank blank I'm not gonna get into that right now because I will talk about that in a second, but another thing to keep in mind about Pete Carroll because of his age He's been in it he's been able excuse me to garner relationships With a bunch of players that might want to come From where he was before to play for him now So as I close this poll, I want you to start thinking about potential former Seattle Seahawks Or Seahawks currently on the roster who you'd like Pete to poach I'm going to blow my nose away from the microphone and then put this poll out here. Give me two seconds. That felt amazing Here we go Okay, let me read this. Okay, let's read this. Let's read this here this chat Raiders for life says Raiders. Let's get this. Let's absolutely get it. Are you done shaking out of the spy tech is ours? Yes, I'm I'm I'm okay now. They've announced spy tech. Oh Bobby Wagner Bobby Wagner sneaky not a bad idea Build a team for three years compete we can win six to seven games Yes, we just got to compete get this train on the tracks right guy from Texans slow it Yeah, slow just got fire that could maybe be someone and stoked for this move Caleb is a buzzer That's gonna hurt Ben and then we'll see. We'll see what happens. Okay, so I'm gonna put this poll out here Obviously a couple of these would have to be trades one of these would have to be free agents. So don't just vote For your player of your choosing you have to understand what we'd have to give up To get these guys right if they are free agents or if they are trade assets now, these are three guys Obviously not all of them at once That I could see becoming a Raider next year. Now if we go top to bottom, let's talk about it guys Let's talk about the Russell Wilson of it. All right I'm gonna pull up the stats right now Russell Wilson and before you go. No way. No way. Just take a deep breath. Okay? Russell Wilson this season in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 games in 12 games threw for 2,500 yards essentially 16 touchdowns 5 picks a quarterback rating of 96 solid Russell Wilson led the Steelers to the playoffs, right? The Steelers have a great defense not a great offense Toward the end of the year It looked like he was falling back down to earth for the beginning of the year people were like this You get the maker may feel deal now doesn't maybe feel like that I don't know if he's gonna be available in free agency. The fact of the matter is if Pete and him mended fences and if they get Daryl bevel Well, you have to understand is that Russell Wilson is an extremely cheap Option he's gonna be cheaper than Gino. He's gonna be cheaper than maybe a Sam Darnold, right? He'll be cheaper than a top-six draft pick and he just led the Steelers to the playoffs basically It's an option to discuss another potential option is DK Metcalf You don't have to look far to hear the rumblings or to see the horizon of DK wanting out of Seattle trade, right? We all remember the video of Pete Carroll taking a shirt off and meeting DK Metcalf That was a second round pick by the way in DK. We know the type of big game big impact player DK Metcalf is and the Raiders right now Need a number one option wide out wise they got the number one option is Brock Bowers But if you trade I don't know what it's gonna take you've got two-thirds if you trade a third for DK or a third and a fifth or a second that might be a little too rich for my blood, but If it's not a first round pick and you offer them this or this or this for DK You know, the GM of the Seahawks is gonna take spy techs call because they respect Brady may respect Pete Carroll So DK Metcalf could be another potential option out there To bring in and then you don't need to use the six-pick on a wideout because you just got DK Metcalf You could use a six-pick on Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter if they fall right or the offensive lineman or the corner for Michigan There's flexibility Ashton Gentry because you know Pete Carroll's gonna want to run the football Especially if Daryl Bevel comes back so that could be interesting and then there's there's the Gino Smith of it all what's Interesting about Pete Carroll and I think Maybe his best quality is being able and I've said this a bunch of times This is one of the reasons why I would want to bring him in his ability to maximize the potential and the talent of anybody on the roster Richard Sherman was a fifth round pick Gino Smith. They got him off the scrapheap Russell Wilson was an undersized third round draft pick out of Wisconsin these guys it was like the island of misfit toys and Gino and Pete Carroll was able to bring the best out of all of them Gino Smith being the most recent example and Gino's got one year left on this contract 25 million dollars not making that much money to play quarterback He didn't have the best year this year, but they were within Reach of a playoff spot too. And with a hundred million dollars in cap space and a bunch of draft capital I think there's a world in which the Raiders roster can creep into the same talent level as the Seahawks roster Especially with Pete Carroll now coaching. I think McDonald did a great job this year with the Seahawks No one thought they were gonna be too competitive They almost won their division but Gino is another guy that you can just manage the game with he can be this bridge to Chador Sanders or a Jackson dart or Jalen Miller you draft later or somebody maybe you draft next year arch Don't expect to be that bad, but maybe we will be drowler. Who knows All that to say Gino Smith is definitely an option I think I might rather have him than Russ at this point, but Gina Smith is also 32 years old That's not extremely old But in in my mind, it feels like he's 27 28. No, he's 32 So this is gonna be a bridge and you know Now Pete Carroll being involved with our team Right. We probably have the second best coach in the division You would say Andy reads one and then I think you'd say Pete Carroll's to Sean Payton, I guess could be three. Although Sean Payton's only coached in one Super Bowl Hasn't won a national championship last time I checked and Harbaugh would be four just because he's never won a Super Bowl the problem with Gino is That you're going up against Herbert and Mahomes. I'm not gonna throw a bone X in there yet I love my next to show potential all that to say I do think Gino is a legitimate option as well But if we're talking straight quarterbacks like I said Pete Carroll has a history has a long tenured history of Being able to make the quarterback position work whether it's signing a free agent that no one thought could be a starter Gino Smith, they wrote me off. I didn't write back drafting an undersized 5-9 quarterback in the third round out of Wisconsin was the other school he went to I forgot just go before that thing doesn't matter The only thing he's never done is straight up to draft that franchise guy with the first pick And we they want to do a lot of play action if it's they're available a lot of play action pound the rock Make the game easy to manage Now when I put this pull out here I want you to understand something the examples that I've listed are not the players that I'm saying that we shouldn't go get So when I say do you think Pete Carroll is going to draft a day to quarterback like Russell Wilson? I'm not saying it's going to be Russell Wilson. He's gonna sign I'm saying it's gonna be like a Jackson dart in the second round, right? But when I say resurrect someone's career free agency wise like Gino Smith, I'm not saying it's going to be Gino Smith So as I put this ball out here, these are the options I think they have right now at the quarterback position because of the Pete Carroll Vibe, whatever you want to call it. What is the QB path? Pete Carroll will take so if we go by day two diamond in the rough like he did with Russell Wilson It's going to be a assuming these guys don't go in the first round, right? Jackson dark Dylan Gabriel Jalen Milrow Quinn yours one of those guys right in the second round What's that kid's name Tanner or whoever's name is? somebody like that free agent resurrection Example Gino Smith that could be somebody that comes completely out of left field right like a Justin Fields I know I haven't listed in both or Someone that I'm just throwing out there, right? I'm just throwing this out there I already see the comments. This guy suggested we should go after Zach Wilson. Look Zach Wilson Similarly to the Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield was a top Five six seven draft pick. He was the second pick in the draft. He was drafted by the Jets Who we've seen are pretty bad organization like ourselves and really had no chance to succeed Like Sam Darnold who learned under Kyle Shanahan for a year Zach Wilson has been learning under one of the best offensive coaches in the league and Sean Payton and looks pretty good in the preseason and the best thing about Zach Wilson is that he would be cheaper than Sam Darnold would be at this point when the Vikings got Sam Darnold I'm just throwing out there the idea that the next version of Sam Darnold or The next version of Gino Smith or Baker Mayfield could be Zach Wilson He's got a lot of talent and maybe with the right coaching in the right system Throwing to Brock Bowers and maybe a DK Metcalf now You just take a stab at somebody like a Zach Wilson There's also a best player available free agent wise someone like a Sam Darnold now Look, I have been pro Sam Darnold Becoming a Raider since day one if they let him go and he wants to do the Baker Mayfield three years 100 million which would make him around the 17th Highest quarterback in terms of average annual salary. I know he played bad in these last two games But you have to understand Sam Darnold when he took the field in Arizona against the Rams and Sean McVay that was his first career playoff game ever and The game before that was probably the most pressure he ever felt in his life Because it was to be the one seed against Detroit who was playing in the biggest game of their franchise's history in Detroit it's completely understandable Understandable under is that a word? My brain is off the rails. I know it's completely justified For Sam Darnold to lay an egg in those two games but what I will not take away from Sam Darnold is that he threw 35 touchdowns and that his team won 14 games and I'm not going to pretend now that he was always supposed to have done that because everyone goes Oh, of course, they won 14 games I mean look at Kevin O'Connell's a genius and they have all these weapons before the season started The narrative with the Vikings was good luck with Sam Darnold. Good luck with Sam Darnold smash cut to 14 wins if Pete Carroll and spy tech and Brady think Sam Darnold is growing into his prime like a Baker Mayfield who in one season took the Bucks to nine wins and Took them within a quarter of the NFC Championship. And no was anybody saying beggar Mayfield. That must be a fluke Sam Darnold was a top-ten pick if he can get him for three years a hundred million and a ride this thing out with Sam Darnold maybe draft the successor or let Aiden learn on them. I don't know something It is not that much money in the grand scheme of things people say it's a third of our cap It's a hundred percent of most people's cap We have the luxury to go get him because he's going to have a market if he's on the trade If he's on the free agency market now the last thing That Pete Carroll has never ever done is draft the quarterback high with Seattle I don't know about his history in New York or New England with Seattle Now right now it doesn't seem like we are in position to draft should or Sanders or Cam Ward, although if Cam Ward goes number one and Shador pulls an Eli and doesn't want to play for the Giants or the Browns then maybe he can fall to six The only way this would happen is if we reached for somebody at six like a dart or if we trade up I don't see us trading up but you never know if Tom Brady and spy tech and Carroll are all in on should or Sanders and they go up to Number one or to Cleveland or to the Giants, which again? I don't see happening right now But this would be the first time that Pete Carroll is coaching a young quarterback that was drafted in the first round in the top five So I think that's the most Risky play in Order of what I think is going to happen. I do think he's gonna go the free agency route Justin Fields Sam Darnold Russell Wilson And then I do think they draft the Jackson dart and look around two or three if you go Abdul Carter in the first round Jackson dart in the second you have a carbon copy of Khalil Mac in 2014 and then Derek Carr Because if you remember correctly Matt Schaub It was pretty good back then in 2014 even was supposed to start for the Raiders He got hurt something with his elbow their car came in and against the starting unit of the Seattle Seahawks in The third preseason game which at the time that was the game where you play all your starters they're a car lit up Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks and Dennis Allen was smirking on the sidelines like oh my god. We found our guy Dare car was given the starting job and he started for the next 10 years for the Raiders Dennis Allen obviously didn't get to see the fruits of the labor Dennis Allen has become the first coach enough a history to be fired with the same quarterback starting for him their car There's some interesting poetry there Obviously the biggest irony of all this is Tom Brady the guy who beat Pete Carroll in the second Super Bowl attempt is now the one hiring him to be the coach of the Raiders All that to say I see right around he says I think Zach Wilson could be a young Russell Wilson That's funny because they have almost the same name He can run around pick up pick up first downs for what I've seen from him in preseason under Peyton misspelled He took huge strides And he got a lot better and I don't know what that gibberish is. That's some acronym that I don't know Gente would be Marshall is 2.0. I think care would love that some of these guys in the discord would agree Don't disagree with that. I Wouldn't be mad about Russell Wilson people right off. Keep his way too early Let's talk about the gente of it all because I think I've said enough about Pete Carroll. I love Pete Carroll. I'm so happy He's our coach. I can't wait for this introductory press conference with the both of them. I'm assuming that they're gonna announce it probably tomorrow Which means that the press conference wouldn't be Sunday. It would be Monday, but I want to read Just a few names here that Levi Edwards has given Because John spy tech was officially announced today on Raiders Twitter. Yeah That he's the GM in Las Vegas Raiders So Levi says now that it's official I can speak on him Seems like a great hire with lots of experience when spy tech was over in Tampa the common theme of their draft classes and free Agent signings were going after big physical guys at all positions I also talked about their willingness to draft ready-to-play players To expedite the rebuild 37 minutes ago Levi tweeted and said To name a few of the Buccaneers draft hits while spy tech was in the front office He was a director of player personnel. Jason light was a GM. They drafted Tristan warfs Chris Godwin Antoine Winfield jr. Vita VEA Kalea can see Kate. I am Zion McCollum Carlton Davis Sean Murphy, but That's why Tampa Bay was able to stay Consistent win the division four straight times two times post Tom Brady They were also able to locate two solid running backs in Rashad white and Bucky Irving I believe Rashad white was a third round pick and Bucky Irving was a fourth round pick and That's what I want to give you with spy tech at the end of the day They might go gentee at six It feels like something that Pete Carroll and Tom Brady might want to do but there's a world that were spy tech goes You guys take Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter or quarterback wherever you want at six I'm down to do that, but let me cook with the running back situation on day two or day three because there's so many guys out there Judkins and Amara Hampton and scataboo and Spy tech has said he wants guys that are going to break the first tackle and that's what Bucky Irving told him in their interview before the draft He said the first guy doesn't tackle me and Every time we watch Bucky Irving playing by the way, Bucky Irving is 5-9 As a gentee is 5-8. So they have no problem drafting under size money They haven't done it at 6, but they did it in day 2 and day 3 So now it's spy tech officially on board and we know the type of aggressive drafter that he is Right with Pete Carroll here ready to change the culture. I think now Max Crosby is safe He's gonna get probably a two-year extension on a contract that already has two years left, but no guaranteed money Max and Pete probably already have talked probably took his shirt off talking to Max Crosby with Tom Brady now making moves Again, are we gonna win the Super Bowl next year? No We got this train on the tracks. Let's find our version of Geno of Sam of Baker maybe it is Geno or Sam Let's maybe take someone in day two like they did with Russell Wilson back in 2011 that sounds about right 10 2010 something like that and let's continue the way of winning and competing first We got the train back on the tracks. Now. It's time to put the coal in the furnace and get this thing going. 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