Pete Carroll is back in the NFL as a head coach just one year after getting fired by the Seattle Seahawks. He has joined Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders, who have their work cut out for them competing in a loaded AFC West division.

Carroll's energy is known and obvious, but he cranked it up a notch while taking on the challenge of coaching the Las Vegas Raiders.

Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders need to go for the brass ring, trading Maxx Crosby to the Cleveland Browns for the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft

Pete Carroll is no stranger to building a winning football program – that is why Mark Davis hired him to be the next head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, after all.

It’s important to understand that when your Pete Carroll is asked a question, he’s going to tell you what he hopes will happen.’

The former head coach of the Seahawks has plenty of his former players still employed in the NFL. A reunion with a veteran defender would make sense.

Lynch attended Carroll’s introductory press conference with the Raiders on Monday, watching his former head coach take on his new role in Las Vegas. Carroll and Lynch have a great relationship so it’s hardly surprising to see Beastmode in attendance, but it’s still cool, nonetheless.

The Raiders are hiring University of Washington offensive coordinator Brennan Carroll to be their offensive line coach and run game coordinator, as first reported by Yogi Roth of the Big Ten Network and confirmed by ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg.