We\u2019re going to win a bunch of games<\/a>,\u201d Carroll said, via video from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. \u201cI can\u2019t even imagine anything [else]. I\u2019ve been winning 10 games a year for 20 years or something, you know? What are my expectations? We\u2019re going to win a bunch. And I don\u2019t care who hears that \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter to me. It ain\u2019t about what anybody hears, it\u2019s about what we do. <\/p>\n\u201cAnd so, that\u2019s why expectations are really high. The standards need to be so that the expectations can be met. We\u2019ll see what happens. I wish I could guarantee it to you, but I can\u2019t even think of what else it could be but being really successful.\u201d <\/p>\n
Carroll had already noted earlier in the presser that his expectations are \u201cabout as high as they can get.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no limit. We\u2019re going for it. We\u2019re going to see how far we can take our club. We\u2019re going to do it one step at a time. We\u2019re just going to see how good we can be,\u201d Carroll said, later adding, \u201cThe expectations and the standards we are setting are going to be as high as we can make them. That\u2019s how we\u2019ve always done that. So, we\u2019re going to take it as far as we can as quickly as we can, see what that means.\u201d <\/p>\n
Carroll may have understated the length of his ability to win 10 games a year as a head coach, too. After going 6-6 in his first season as USC\u2019s head coach in 2001, Carroll\u2019s USC teams won at least 11 games every year from 2002-2008.<\/p>\n
Once he became the Seahawks head coach in 2010, Seattle went 7-9 two years in a row \u2014 famously winning a playoff game as NFC West champion in Carroll\u2019s first year \u2014 but then won at least 10 games from 2012-2016 and from 2018-2020. The team barely missed out on that mark in 2017, winning nine games. Carroll\u2019s Seahawks then won seven in 2021, and nine in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n
Since falling to the Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII to cap the 2002 season, the Raiders have been to the playoffs just twice \u2014 losing in the wild card round both times. Those are the only two times since 2002 that the club has finished with at least 10 wins.<\/p>\n
It seems like a tall task for Las Vegas to reach that double-digit wins mark in 2025, especially considering that the AFC West\u2019s other three teams all reached the postseason in 2024. But Carroll\u2019s coaching should give the Raiders as good a shot as any to be a high-quality, competitive team in the coming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just win, baby? That\u2019s exactly what Pete Carroll is planning on doing in his first year with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-29694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}