Pete Carroll is about to turn 74 years old on Monday, but he has already shown his new team his legendary explosive personality.
Carroll emphatically kicked through a whiteboard during a motivational team meeting last Saturday night ahead of the Raiders’ Week 1 win over the Patriots, according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
According to witnesses cited in the report, “the room went crazy” after Carroll’s display, which was likened to a WWE promo performance, with one source telling Rapoport, “he just knows how to reach guys. This is why he’s who he is.”
Another person in the room added, “That’s just Pete. That’s how he turns the culture around.”
Carroll supposedly entered the room to the theme music of WWE wrestler Jey Uso and worked his way through the players before he started his speech about the need to compete this season.
He kicked the whiteboard while talking about the need to “kick in the door.”
Carroll and the Raiders defeated New England the next day, 20-13, and they are slated to face Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers on Monday night in Las Vegas.
“We are going to win a bunch of games,” Carroll, a Super Bowl winner during 14 seasons with the Seahawks, said during training camp. “I mean, what are my expectations? We are going to win a bunch, and I don’t care who hears that.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
