The AFC West underwent a dramatic shakeup on Friday with the arrival of Pete Carroll as Las Vegas Raiders head coach – rekindling his longstanding rivalry with Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh in the process.

The AFC West may have gotten a whole lot tougher with the recent coaching move the Las Vegas Raiders made. Where will that put Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh on the totem pole?

The renewal of the rivalry between Jim Harbaugh of the Los Angeles Chargers and Pete Carroll of the Las Vegas Raiders is exciting, to say the least. But considering those Raiders enter a serious rebuild,

The culture king is back in the NFL. And, oh boy, does he have his work cut out for him. Arguably no NFL head coach has done a better job in the past couple of decades of creating a culture, a vibe, an attitude in and round his team than what Pete Carroll created during his 14 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks.

After a year away from the game, former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is officially returning to football. On Friday morning it was announced the Las Vegas Raiders were signing the Seahawks legend to be their next head coach.

Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh have waged war against each other for years, in college at USC and Stanford and in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, and Carroll landing the Las Vegas Raiders job reunites them once again.

Pete Carroll is back. One year removed from being run outta town as the head man of the Seattle Seahawks, the peppy coach nicknamed "Big Balls Pete" is headed back to an NFL sideline as the new sheriff of the Las Vegas Raiders.

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

Carroll will be 74 this fall, becoming the oldest head coach in NFL history 12 months after Seattle fired then paid him.

Fame coach Pete Carroll, joining a stacked AFC West of Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton and the Kansas City Chiefs' Andy Reid.

The Raiders have hired Pete Carroll as their new coach. Carroll is getting a three-year deal with a fourth-year team option, sources told ESPN.