Tom Brady will have a role in picking next Raiders head coach

The Raiders launched an announcement on Monday morning, asserting their choice to fireside head coach Pete Carroll.

Las Vegas will conduct a seek for its fourth coach in three years. Josh McDaniels was fired in 2023. Antonio Pierce was fired in 2024. Now, Carroll is gone.

Minority proprietor Tom Brady could have a task in selecting Carroll’s successor, the workforce stated in its assertion.

“Transferring ahead, Normal Supervisor John Spytek will lead all soccer operations in shut collaboration with Tom Brady, together with the seek for the membership’s subsequent coach,” workforce proprietor Mark Davis stated. “Collectively, they may information soccer choices with a shared give attention to management, tradition, and alignment with the group’s long-term imaginative and prescient and objectives.”

The NFL permitted Brady’s bid to hitch the Raiders as a restricted companion in 2024. He additionally owns a stake within the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, which Davis additionally owns.

Carroll, 74, was the oldest coach within the NFL final season. He went 3-14 in his solely season with the Raiders. Las Vegas could have the No. 1 general choose within the upcoming NFL Draft.

Spytek was a teammate of Brady’s at Michigan the place he performed offensive line. He constructed a prolonged profession as a scout for a number of totally different franchises together with the Eagles, Browns, and Broncos.

He and Brady overlapped once more with the Buccanneers from 2020 till Brady’s retirement in 2022. Spytek was Tampa Bay’s director of participant personnel on the time and was later promoted to assistant basic supervisor earlier than becoming a member of the Raiders.

Along with his position as a minority proprietor of the Raiders, Brady works as a broadcaster on FOX.

The Raiders are considered one of six NFL groups with a head coach emptiness. The Browns fired Kevin Stefanski and the Falcons fired Raheem Morris this week. The Titans fired Mike Vrabel’s alternative Brian Callahan shortly earlier than they performed the Patriots. The Cardinals fired Jonathan Gannon. The Giants fired Brian Daboll.

Now the Raiders are on the hunt after firing Carroll, with Brady anticipated to have enter within the search.

Khari A. Thompson

Sports activities Reporter

Khari Thompson covers skilled sports activities for Boston.com. Earlier than becoming a member of the workforce in 2022, Khari coated school soccer for The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss.