The Las Vegas Raiders featured one of many extra disappointing offenses within the NFL in 2025. Nepotism might have been one of many causes of the unit’s issues.
Shortly after the Raiders employed former head coach Pete Carroll in January 2025, his son, Brennan, joined his workers as a run recreation coordinator/offensive line coach. It instantly turned obvious that he was a poor match for Vegas.
Report particulars how Raiders O-line crumbled below Brennan Carroll
In a bombshell report revealed Tuesday, ESPN’s Ryan McFadden and Kalyn Kahler revealed a number of tidbits in regards to the Raiders’ first season below minority proprietor Tom Brady. This included how Brennan Carroll flopped as an O-line coach. Neither Brady nor Brennan Carroll spoke with ESPN.
An agent for a Raiders offensive lineman informed Kahler and McFadden that the place group held non-public conferences with out Brennan Carroll and different coaches to dam higher for quarterback Geno Smith and working again Ashton Jeanty. Gamers weren’t impressed with the coach, who rushed them via drills and did not make it clear what they have been presupposed to do in these drills.
“It was that unhealthy,” the agent stated. “They have been assembly on their very own and making an attempt to determine it out collectively, which I by no means heard of in my historical past of working within the league.”
Raiders offensive tackles DJ Glaze and Charles Grant confirmed the O-line met with Jeanty and Smith at the least twice per week since OTAs with out the teaching workers, however they stated it was to get on the identical web page.
Glaze, nevertheless, admitted there have been occasions the unit did not know who would begin the Saturday earlier than a Sunday recreation as a result of the teaching workers needed to see how gamers competed all through the week and whether or not they could be wholesome. That is one other instance of why many really feel Brennan Carroll was on the root of Vegas’ offensive points.
“The offensive line coach is the largest challenge with this crew,” an agent stated in December. “Everyone is aware of, and no one talks about it as a result of it is Pete’s son. Everybody talks about it behind the scenes, nobody talks about it publicly.”
“Similar to something, you already know the place points are,” a crew supply stated. “Guys keep fairly skilled. Some stuff is just like the elephant within the room, however guys maintain a poker face [and] carry on working.”
Retaining a poker face, nevertheless, is one key purpose the Raiders stored dropping this previous season, like many who spin slot machines in Vegas casinos.
The Raiders went 3-14 in 2025, rating final within the league in factors per recreation (14.2). The O-line’s incapacity to offer Smith time to throw and Jeanty room to run compounded Vegas’ issues.
Smith, 35, took a career-high 55 sacks in 15 begins. 2025 No. 6 choose Jeanty, in the meantime, averaged a below-average 3.7 yards per carry (975 yards in 17 video games).
Brennan Carroll coached alongside his dad as an assistant OL coach for the Seattle Seahawks from 2015-19. He was then an offensive coordinator and OL coach for the Arizona Wildcats (2021-23) and Washington Huskies (2024-25).
Regardless of his earlier expertise, the Raiders clearly should not have employed him. His relationship together with his father appeared to make gamers really feel they could not talk about O-line points, as Pete Carroll might need perceived it as unfair criticism of his son.
The Raiders fired Pete Carroll on Monday. It is best Vegas’ subsequent HC does not embody relations on his workers. The earlier regime confirmed the way it creates a number of issues.
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