Seahawks eyeing five-year extension for 69-year-old Pete Carroll

The Seahawks want to lock Pete Carroll up long-term.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is by no means a spring chicken, but his club is once again a viable championship contender in the extremely crowded NFC West. At an age where most coaches are already retired or thinking about retiring, Carroll is eyeing another half-decade as the main man in the Pacific Northwest.

According to Ian Rapoport, Carroll’s advanced age is doing little to extinguish his desire to continue coaching. The 69-year-old silver fox wants to coach five more years, and the Seahawks are prepared to extend him in order to make that dream a reality.

The Pete Carroll experiment has been an unquestioned success in Seattle

Carroll earned mixed reviews during his first run as a head coach, as he went 33-31 with one playoff win with the Jets and Patriots in the 90s. Following his decade of dominance at USC, Carroll 101-59 in Seattle, winning 10 playoff games and a Super Bowl while missing the postseason just twice in 10 seasons.

Despite Carroll’s age, he is charge of a Russell Wilson-led offense that remains one of the league’s most efficient and a Jamal Adams-led defense that vaunted back into the elite conversation after their busy offseason. With no reason to kick off a youth movement, Seattle should absolutely bring back the greatest coach in franchise history.

The NFL doesn’t have a history of coaches holding down head coaching positions into their 70s, but Carroll and his Week 2 opponent, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, both seem ready to buck that trend in the near future. George Halas was two months away from turning 73 when he coached his last game and set the record for the oldest NFL head coach, but Carroll could easily break that record.