The Raiders' search for a new head coach reached its conclusion Friday as former Seahawks and USC head coach Pete Carroll was hired by Las Vegas. Carroll must now execute the plan on which he sold Raiders leadership to rise from the depths of the AFC West to its peak.

The Las Vegas Raiders are negotiating a deal to hire Pete Carroll to be their new head coach, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

Long before they moved to Las Vegas, the Raiders always seemed like a roll-the-dice, go-for-broke kind of operation. "Just win, baby" was the mantra of their owner Al Davis, but in his final years — and after his son Mark took over following Al's passing in 2011 — that ethos didn’t always lead to the most carefully crafted of plans to accomplish