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January 24, 2025 11 mins
JT The Brick from the Las Vegas Raiders Radio Network joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about today’s news of Pete Carroll being hired by the Raiders as their new Head Coach including fan reaction in Nevada, his control, and how long he lasts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to the Washington State Beat Commissions Football Friday
with Sati and Dick on your home for the NFL.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Sports Radio ninety three point three.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
kJ r FL.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
All right, busy, busy Friday here on ninety three to
three kjr FM. Before we get to our next guest,
you may have heard the big news Pete Carroll going
to the Vegas Raiders to be the coach in Vegas.
And before we get to our next guest, who's about
to cover him in Las Vegas, let's go back Nick
to August twentieth of last year.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Pete Carroll on.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
This radio show, talking to me and Doug Baldwin asked
the question do you or do you not want to
coach again in the NFL?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I guess a lot, so I'm pretty familiar with the
answering that I could coach tomorrow. I mean, I'm physically
in the best ship I've been in a long time.
I'm ready to be ready to do all the activities
that I'm doing it, feeling really good about it. I could,
I don't, but I don't really I'm not desiring it.
You know, at this point, isn't the coaching season. You know,

(01:02):
we'll see what happens. I'm not really I'm not waiting
on it at all. I'm going ahead and I got
other things that i want to do that I'm excited about,
and let's see how all that goes well.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
One of those things was coaching a class at USC
which apparently I guess he's going to keep doing.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Is the coach of the Raiders. I mean, why not?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
But joining us right now in the program pre and
postgame for the Raiders. I've been hosting the Coaches Show
on TV Mad Dog Radio twenty seven years with Vegas
and the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Our old pal JT. The brick JT. How are you pal?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hello, guys, great to be on with you today. Big
day in Vegas. We're hoping to get some of that
Seattle success out here in Sin City.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, what's the reaction? Tell us down there?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Reactions great? I mean he was one or one A
the whole time. You know, Tom Brady came in and
Tom Brady's taking big swings. We fought down here maybe
forty eight hours ago, two three days ago that Ben
Johnson was target number one. They're going after Ben Johnson
and Tom Brady kind of cleared everybody out. He fired
the GM Tom tolesco which no one expected. Obviously, Antonio

(02:09):
Pierce was let go as the head coach and he
did a nice job. The team was beset with injuries,
lost ten in a row this year, so we know
what happens when that happens to a coach. But you know,
after Ben Johnson decided to go to Chicago, it was
one or one A and Pete Carroll that's the guy
that a lot of people wanted here. We needed a
veteran head coach with a rookie GM that's coming in here,

(02:33):
and I think it's a great fit. And Pete Carroll
goes back to the Bay Area or in County Pacific
and all that and was in college when the Raiders
were great, and we just hope it's a good fit.
We hope a couple of years from now the Raiders
are competing to win championships, because that's why he was
brought in.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
So JT is Mark Davis just kind of a silent
controlling owner of the Raiders now and he's letting Tom
Brady kind of run things.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, I wouldn't go there. He's not silent. He's very active,
just knows what he doesn't know. And he wanted to
bring in Tom Brady as a minority owner who bought
a nice chunk of the team. I mean ten percent
of the team is big. And then two other smaller
minority owners spent a lot of money and bought seven
point five and seven point five. So if you add

(03:18):
up the twenty five percent of the Raiders that was
sold recently and approved by the NFL owners at the
owners meeting, Mark is raising cash which he doesn't need.
Because one thing, guys, that has changed since the last
time I was up there and on with you guys.
We always played Seattle in the preseason when I came
up there, is now we're one of the richest teams
in the NFL, one of the most successful financial teams

(03:41):
in the NFL. This thing is hemorrhaging cash in a
good way. I mean making a ton of money. And
now the issue is Mark's got a win. And it's
been a while. It's been twenty plus years since the
Raiders made the playoffs and won a playoff game, going
back to the Super Bowl appearance in two thousand three,
and since then, Seattle's had a ton of success. So

(04:03):
all the coaches who had their shot, they were all
good men. They all said the same thing coming in
that they wanted to win. And now it's Pete Carroll's turn.
But at least he can walk on the field and
look Andy Reid, Sean Payton, and Jim Harbaugh in the
eyes and say I beat all of you. Yeah, I
beat all of you before, and I'm going to try
to do it again.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, jt the bricks with us in Vegas. Pete Carroll
new coach of the Raiders. John Spytech is the new GM.
So this is now the second time that Pete Carroll
has been hired as a head coach and brought in
at the same time as a new GM, because he
came in with John Schneider in twenty ten.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
But it was Pete's show.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I mean, they hired Pete before they hired the general manager.
This time around, apparently they hired spi Tech before they
got to Pete. Who's in charge? Does Pete have the
authority like he had in Seattle?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
You think, yeah, I think Pete's gonna have a lot
of command of this team. And again Tom Brady's going
to be involved. But as you guys know, Brady's Brady
can't be at the games. You know, he can't be
at the games. He can't be at you know, the
practice is involved. There's certain ramifications and rules with him.
And Pete has been doing this and has the Gravi
toss to run this team. Now. Spy TeX's really interesting

(05:14):
because he comes from Tampa and he was a big
part of the architect of the Brady Super Bowl in
Tampa Bay and Baker Mayfield coming in and the team's
been really good the last couple of years, and he
was the next GM in waiting, So real happy to
get him because it seems like he was choice number one.
He was the GM that they wanted. Really easy to
make the connection, guys, because he played college football with

(05:37):
Brady at Michigan.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Well, we know that the Raiders is only going to
go so far as their quarterback takes them. And you know,
Pete could minimize the damage at quarterback by the way
he runs his offense and he's such a good defensive coach.
But what do you think this team is going to
do a quarterback because it doesn't seem like the status
quo is going to work.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Have to get a quarterback that you have to get one,
there's no way around it. So the Raiders have the
six pick in the first is that good enough to
get should or Sanders or cam Ward if you like him,
Probably not. You got to trade up. The Raiders couldn't
trade up to get Jade and Daniels last year, who
had a really good friendship with Antonio Pierce to coach
at that time. And we got brock Bauers that had

(06:15):
one of the greatest seasons in the history of the
NFL at tight end. And the pick before was bon
Nicks and Michael Pennix went to Atlanta and the Raiders
didn't expect that to happen. So whatever the Raiders do,
they have to get an elite quarterback. And they can
get a veteran quarterback Sam Darnold. You could go down
the road of Russell Wilson or Aaron Rodgers or a

(06:36):
Kirk Cousins. I don't think because he didn't look good
at the end here. But they've got to take a
quarterback high park them and let Pete Carroll develop them
with his staff. So the Raiders have a franchise quarterback
of the future. That's the problem. Derek Carr was here
for nine years. We didn't win a playoff game. With
Derek Carr. We had to move on from him. We

(06:57):
got to get a young, stud quarterback. No matter what.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Russell Wilson's a free agent. He's not young, and he's
not a stud. But he could be a guy that
could sit there and babysit Somebody is the idea of
bringing Russell into Vegas at least for a year or two?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Stupid? Or what?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Well? Last year, if you heard my show, that's all
I said. I tell you I don't get many things
right all the time, but when I do, I'll tell
you I was screaming for the Raiders to get Baker
Mayfield for thirty million total. Russell Wilson was a million dollars.
DeVante Adams was getting one point one million a game
and he wanted out. We could have got Russell Wilson.
So if Russ was here last year, he would have

(07:33):
been here for a year already. I'm not saying the
Raiders would have went to the playoffs, but they would
have been vastly improved. If Russell Wilson walked on that field,
or Aaron Rodgers or Sam Darnold, with Max Crosby and
some of the players that they have, they'd be instantly
four or five games better, and I think they'd be
a you know, seven, eight nine win team in Pete's
first run there, and maybe even better. Remember Jayden Daniels,

(07:56):
the Commanders before they got him, won four games last year.
That's the program that needs to be installed in Vegas.
This isn't a five year, ten year plan. Pete's got
to turn this around really quick. And we're hoping his energy,
his staff and all the combinations that he has with
former players and coaches builds a winner here in Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
How about a reunion with Pete Carroll and Gino Smith?

Speaker 4 (08:18):
How is you like that?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Guys? I used to wickipedia Gino and remind people there
were years years where he didn't throw the ball, like
he had six attempts, like he was left for dead.
And Gino played well in Seattle, played very well. Good
quarterback four thousand yards blindfolded. You know someone like that
as an upgrade, and not that. Aidan O'Connell's a bad quarterback.

(08:43):
He got thrown into the fire. We had Gardner, Minshew,
Jimmy Garoppolo, Aidan O'Connell. You go back. Since Derek Carr,
it has been rough, but the quarterback is clearly the priority.
And if you think Brady swung big getting Pete Carroll
in Spy deck, Brady's got to step up and get
us a quarter That's the primary input of Brady, we

(09:03):
think going forward. Because no one sat down with Brady,
no one knows his vision, but everybody believes in him
because we need a winner here in Vegas. The Raiders
have played in five Super Bowls, won three, have had
some of the greatest players to ever play in this league,
and they have to turn it around. And Pete Carroll's
the answer.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
How long does Pete get JT You give him a
year or two before you start busting his balls down there?

Speaker 3 (09:24):
How long does the old man get We're gonna give
him as long as he wants. Man. I got to remember,
you guys can go back and do the math I
started in ninety eight. I think this is I think
this is my fifteenth head coach. Wow. I host all
the shows and I sit down with them. So I'll
go through Tom Cable, Lane Kiffin. The list goes on

(09:46):
and on coaches you haven't even heard of to this day.
Hugh Jackson. I've sat down in front of him and
tried to get content out of him. Antonio Pierce was
fabulous to interview every week on the Coaches Show. And
if I get the opportunity to do that with Pe,
to kind of plug into his energy, we'll do that
in Vegas because everybody wants to come to our stadium.
Everyone wants to come to Vegas for the Final Four

(10:08):
for college football, for fights in UFC. We need Raider
Nation to explode the way it did in Oakland and
LA and get this team back on track.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, if you count the interim guys, you're right, it's
fifteen dudes.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Man, I feel sorry for you for us.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Fifteen guys. Nobody's lasted more than three years.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Hey, get give the old man a break, let him
work his magic and get the f out of the way.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
All right, man, we'll talk soon, buddy.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thanks guys, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Ev jt the brick with us on the show.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
We're gonna head to Philadelphia and we're gonna head to
DC at four for the Commanders and Eagles.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
We'll do little fun with Audio.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
How long does he get How long you think they
give him before they start getting after him down there?
Honestly a year or two year and a half two,
two years, two seasons. Hearing JT it reminds me of
we we ran Raider football play by player. That's right
on nine fifty kjar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You remember that?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Did you know?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Before we ran Raider games, we were the home of
the Oakland. Yes, because we had the what do you
call it? The what's the bus? The bus? What's the bus?

Speaker 1 (11:07):
We used to have that was the road Hog road
Hog and it had a freaking raider logo on. I mean,
how dumb were we a radio station in Seattle driving
around town with a freaking raider. It was Tom Lee's idea,
We're gonna put the Raiders on kJ R.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
God Man, that was just that guy had a lot
of great ideas. That was not one of another bad idea.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
We'll get a break fun with audio next on ninety
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