Raiders hiring former Seahawks’ coach Pete Carroll as the main coach

Pete Carroll spent 14 seasons, 2010-2023 with Seattle Seahawks, in his last job before taking over as Las Vegas Raider’s main coach Friday.

Carroll has a big run Seattle, which the team was dominant for a long search. He had a 137-89-1 record there with a Super Bowl Wind, two Super Bowl appearances and 10 playoffs appearances. He had three losing seasons there.

Carroll took for the fired Jim Mora after a 5-11 season in 2009, after coming to Pacific Northwest in a famous feature after a dynamic nine season as head coach at USC, won a national championship title.

It took a bit of Carroll, coaching the New York Jets and New England Patriots in the 1990s to make it go in the NFL. Seahawks, whose first draft in the Carroll era was Star Safety Earl Thomas, was 7-9 in his first two seasons there.

Things started for Seahawks in 2-212 when they drafted Russell Wilson and went 11-15 in 2012 and went to the playoffs.

Seattle went the Super Bowl after the next two seasons, won once and lost once, and it began a special time in Seattle, where they were defined by Wilson, who drove back Marshawn Lynch, an ugly home advantage.

Carroll, who turns 74 in September, has a three-year contract (with a team setting for a fourth), so everyone involved hope for a faster turn as he takes over 4-13 Raiders. But his formula for success is Seattle is clear.