He will be the league's oldest head coach next season, surpassing year-old Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs. Brady is believed to have a major hand in the hiring process for this job and the general manager spot, which was filled by Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant GM John Spytek on Wednesday.
Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion, finished his career with the Bucs. The Raiders fired coach Antonio Pierce after going in his first full season.
Pierce was as an interim coach in after replacing Josh McDaniels. He will become the fifth coach, including those in an interim role, since the Raiders moved to Las Vegas in The Raiders lost in the wild-card round in both years. Carroll has the demanding job of trying to revive an organization in an AFC West loaded with proven coaches and quarterbacks who appear to be in place for years to come. It will become the first division to open a season in which each head coach has appeared in a Super Bowl.
One of his chief challenges will be what to do at quarterback in a division that includes the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes, the Chargers' Justin Herbert and the Broncos' Bo Nix. Mahomes is pursuing his fourth Super Bowl title and third in a row. Herbert is considered a potentially top-level QB and Nix just completed a largely successful rookie season. The Raiders pick sixth in the draft this year and likely won't be in position to take one of the top two QBs — Colorado's Shedeur Sanders and Miami's Cam Ward — barring a trade.
The free-agent market doesn't appear robust, so the Raiders' options might be limited and could return to Aidan O'Connell as the starter. He was in three seasons with the Patriots from and joined Seattle in after nine seasons at Southern California.
