The Las Vegas Raiders went out and made a big splash this offseason in bringing in both a new general manager in John Spytek and head coach in Pete Carroll. While there has been speculation and pesamism surrounding the Raiders bringing in Carroll, longtime NFL executive believes otherwise.

On a recent episode of The Las Vegas Raiders Insider Podcast, our Hondo Carpenter caught up with longtime friend Bill Keenist. Keenist is a longtime NFL executive (first year in the NFL was 1981), who knew Spytek when he was just starting out with the Detroit Lions.

Keenist has been around the league for quite sometime now, and still remains knowledgable when it comes to evaluation. Lucky for the Raiders and the Radier Nation, Keenist believes Carroll’s involvement with Las Vegas is something not enough people around the league are talking about.

“I don’t think you guys {Raiders} realize what you have in Pete Carroll,” Keenist said. “I remember talking to people who have worked with and for Pete at his various stops, and to a person they all rave about him. Not as a coach, as a human being.”

The man Pete Carroll has been highly talked about. His resume speaks for itself, but a testament to the person that he is from a longtime executive speaks volumes to what the Raiders really posses. In fact, Keenist has a personal story surrounding the type of person that coach Carroll is.

“My son Billy, who is a local high school head coach… In his first season, they hadn’t been to the playoffs in years, he leads them to the playoffs. But, they had a losing record,” Keenist recalled.