{"id":506023,"date":"2026-01-10T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506023\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:26:12","slug":"raiders-host-shares-head-coach-he-believes-john-spytek-wanted-to-hire-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506023\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Host Shares Head Coach He Believes John Spytek Wanted to Hire in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pete Carroll wasn\u2019t the Raiders first choice to their head coach a year ago, and it\u2019s also no secret who Tom Brady wanted to hire. <\/p>\n

Last week, league insider Tony Pauline talked about the role of first-year GM John Spytek in Carroll\u2019s hire, and it sounds like Brady more or less let Spytek sit it out. <\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to sources, Spytek did not have much say in the hiring of Carroll,\u201d\u00a0Pauline reported on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For anyone wondering who Spytek would have wanted as the head coach, it sounds like it might have been his former offensive coordinator in Tampa.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Review-Journal\u2019s Adam Hill discussed last year\u2019s offseason on his most recent podcast and said he believes Spytek wanted to hire Liam Coen. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI would bet a large amount of money that John Spytek already has a list [of coaching candidates when he was hired last year],\u201d Hill said on the Vegas Nation First and 10<\/a> podcast. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he came in, he just didn\u2019t get to go through that list because he wasn\u2019t really in charge of the hire. I personally will feel forever that if John Spytek did the hire last year, Liam Coen would be the head coach of the Raiders. I feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

By most accounts, the decision makers in Las Vegas pivoted to Pete Carroll after losing Johnson to Chicago, but according to\u00a0The Athletic\u2019s Mike Jones<\/a>, Coen was very much in the mix for the job. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Raiders wanted Liam Coen to be their head coach, but wound up with Pete Carroll, who \u2014 given the state of the franchise \u2014 is probably better suited for the job anyway,\u201d Jones reported in June.<\/p>\n

In hindsight, Carroll wasn\u2019t better suited for the job and hiring Coen probably would have worked out a little better. <\/p>\n

But Hill also made a statement that no one would agree with as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n

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In his discussion with fellow beat writer Vinny Bonsignore, Hill said he believes Cam Ward was a better prospect in 2025 than Fernando Mendoza is this year.<\/p>\n

That statement puts Hill in alignment with a hot take from Bomani Jones that is the early front runner for most ridiculous statement of the year. <\/p>\n

\u201cI got people asking me [about] Fernando Mendoza. Is he what the Raiders need and I watched Mendoza. We\u2019ll talk a little bit more about that game, and Mendoza looks like something I\u2019ve seen very many times, which is a very good college quarterback,\u201d Jones said on The Right Time with Bomani Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what the no. 1 pick in the draft look like. That ain\u2019t it. Even if you think Cam Ward\u2019s not going to be that guy, you look at Cam Ward with the Titans and you\u2019re like \u2018That guy was the no. 1 pick in the draft.\u2019 You see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

x: @raidersbeat<\/a><\/p>\n

FIRST AND 10 Podcast: Big Changes Set Up Big Off-season<\/a><\/p>\n

In this episode of the FIRST AND 10 Podcast, Vegas Nation\u2019s Vinny Bonsignore and Adam Hill talk about Raiders General Manager John Spytek\u2019s comments about the future of the franchise following the firing of Head Coach Pete Carroll, and the futures of Maxx Crosby\u2019 and Geno Smith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Carroll wasn\u2019t the Raiders first choice to their head coach a year ago, and it\u2019s also no…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-506023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115870563775314994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}