One hire that might go under the radar is the vice president of coaching operations. It's not a role that every team utilizes but Carroll has a guy that he likes. According to Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer, the Raiders are hiring Seattle Seahawks vice president of coaching operations Matt Capurro to the staff.

Step one for Pete Carroll upon joining the Las Vegas Raiders was figuring out who his three coordinators would be. Once that was done, it was time to move onto step two: ironing out both the positional coaches and coaching assistants.