Raiders' Crosby excited by Carroll hire: 'He's a winner'

Raiders pass-rusher Maxx Crosby is thrilled about Las Vegas hiring Pete Carroll as its next head coach.

"It's exciting," Crosby told Jim Gray on Sirius XM Radio. "The No. 1 thing you look at is just energy. We talked about it a few times. Competition as well. As a competitor, as somebody who brings energy all the time and lives off that and expects it from others, I love somebody with that type of mentality."

Crosby added: "He's a winner. He's done it his whole career. And it's just exciting to see what's going to come soon."

Carroll moved into an advisory role with the Seattle Seahawks in 2024 after spending 14 seasons as the team's head coach. He accumulated a 137-89-1 regular-season record as Seattle's sideline boss.

The 73-year-old found playoff success early in his Seahawks tenure, reaching back-to-back Super Bowls during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Carroll was victorious in his first Super Bowl but lost to the New England Patriots the following year. Carroll reached the playoffs in 10 of his 14 years in Seattle.

The Raiders are coming off a 4-13 season, the worst record in the AFC West. They've won 10 or more games in a campaign just once in the last eight years and haven't won their division since 2002.

"The main things that (Carroll) talked about is, we're going right now," Crosby said. "We're not wasting time. That's the one thing he mentioned to me after his press conference. We're going to get this thing rolling. So, it's exciting. That's my mentality every year. I want to win every year.

"That's the competition in me, and I see that in him. I feel like everybody, from the new ownership group, from (owner) Mark (Davis), everybody's on the same mindset when it comes to attacking this new regime."

Crosby has been with the Raiders since being drafted in the fourth round in 2019. He's earned four Pro Bowl nods in six seasons, totaling 144 quarterback hits and 59.5 sacks. The 27-year-old has two years remaining on the four-year, $98.98-million contract extension he signed in 2022.

Las Vegas owns the sixth pick in April's draft and is projected to have $92.3 million in cap space, the second-most in the NFL, according to Over The Cap.