Pete Carroll FIRED As Raiders Head Coach | What Las Vegas Should Do At No. 1 In NFL Draft
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Mike Renner and JP Acosta react to the Las Vegas Raiders firing Pete Carroll as their head coach following Week 18. The guys discuss what went wrong, possible replacements and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to yet another edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:17.5 | Blown up your timelines here on a Monday morning. |
| 0:20.5 | Brought to by Fandle Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We're blowing up timelines timelines here on a Monday morning. Brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook, Make Every Moment more. |
| 0:22.7 | We're blowing up your timelines for good reason. |
| 0:24.2 | We have a lot of news coming down here on Black Monday. |
| 0:27.1 | And Black Monday only makes sense for the silver and black as they fire. |
| 0:31.6 | Pete Carroll out after one season as the head coach. |
| 0:34.8 | Obviously, when you get the number one overall pick, things tend to have gone south. |
| 0:40.5 | And boy, did they ever, this team look hapless down the stretch there. |
| 0:44.4 | They took, you know, a while to beat the Chris Alaticoon, Shane Bouchel led Kansas City Chiefs in week 18. |
| 0:52.8 | It was just ugly from, I can't say start to finish because they beat the Patriots |
| 0:58.1 | week one. |
| 0:59.2 | They had a very different feel after week one than they do now. |
| 1:02.4 | But I think for the last, gosh, eight to ten weeks of the season, the karate was on the |
| 1:08.2 | wall here for Pete Carroll. |
| 1:09.4 | This team had no juice. And for a |
| 1:12.2 | Pete Carroll team that's supposed to play a lot of energy, a lot of competition, they're at least |
| 1:15.6 | supposed to be. What was promised for the Raiders was that they would be competitive. Last year |
| 1:21.2 | on Antonio Pierce, they just weren't competitive. And Pete Carroll was supposed to bring a level of |
| 1:25.2 | competition, bring some fire back to this team, |
| 1:28.7 | and it just looked like they didn't have any juice after the last cup over the rest of the season after the first two weeks. |
| 1:35.7 | It felt like the offense just had nothing going for it. |
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