Pete Carroll made it clear he wanted a second season as the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders at every opportunity over the last month.

The feeling wasn’t reciprocated. Las Vegas fired the future Hall of Fame coach after his first year on the job Monday morning.

“We appreciate and wish him and his family all the best,” Raiders owner Mark Davis said in a statement. “Moving forward, General Manager John Spytek will lead all football operations in close collaboration with Tom Brady, including the search for the club’s next head coach. Together, they will guide football decisions with a shared focus on leadership, culture and alignment with the organization’s long-term vision.”

The 74-year-old Carroll had his worst campaign in 27 seasons as a coach split between college football and the NFL with the Raiders, finishing 3-14 and delivering the franchise its first No. 1 overall draft pick in 19 years.

Las Vegas will presumably have a new quarterback, likely either of top draft prospects Fernando Mendoza or Dante Moore, and a new coach for the fourth time in four seasons when next year begins.

Brady, Raiders’ minority owner, is expected to be the primary leader of the coaching search for the second straight season. The seven-time Super Bowl winning quarterback went after Ben Johnson a year ago before the then Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator ultimately chose the Chicago Bears’ job over Las Vegas.

Carroll was a backup plan, and one that immediately proved a poor fit with Spytek, who was hired days earlier.

Spytek appeared more committed to rebuilding the Raiders for the future while Carroll carried a win-now mentality and guaranteed double-digit wins in his first season.

Spytek will be given more power over personnel decisions instead of splitting duties with the new coach like he did alongside Carroll, who pushed for a number of failed decisions including signing his former Seattle quarterback Geno Smith.

Early candidates mentioned with the Raiders’ opening include former Browns coach Kevin Stefanski, Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores and Rams defensive coordinator Chris Shula.

Carroll, Stefanski, the Cardinals’ Jonathan Gannon and Falcons’ Raheem Morris were all fired in the last 24 hours as part of the NFL’s annual “Black Monday” where a number of staffing changes occur after the regular season.

Two other teams got rid of their coaches in-season with the New York Giants parting ways with Brian Daboll shortly after the Tennessee Titans fired Brian Callahan.

National reports indicated the Raiders hoped to come to a mutual agreement with Carroll — perhaps one where the oldest coach in NFL history would willfully retire — but the latter said after a win over the Chiefs on Sunday that he had no intentions of walking away.

“Nobody’s talking to me about that,” Carroll said. “I haven’t said a word to anyone.”

If Raiders owner Mark Davis, Brady and Co. wanted him gone, they were going to have to fire him.

They didn’t hesitate.

The Raiders stand as unlikely to be the most attractive job of the six current NFL openings given their standing as one of the NFL’s least successful franchises over the last 20 years — with only one playoff appearance in six seasons in Las Vegas — and division placement in the rugged AFC West.

After Johnson turned them down a year ago, eventual Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Coen declined a chance to interview.

The No. 1 pick and the world-class team headquarters in Henderson stand out as more positive selling points.

Carroll expressed excitement and confidence in his ability to turn around the franchise, but so did Antonio Pierce and Josh McDaniels in the years before him. All three of the recent Raiders coaches fired are united in that they went for playoff contention right away and pushed back a full youth movement focused on development.

The new coach must have a different philosophy, one that meshes better with Brady and Spytek.

“He’s been in the game for a long time, he’s been around a lot of different players,” defensive tackle Jonah Laulu said of Carroll on Monday. “He brought a lot of wisdom to us. Despite all of that, we still didn’t get it done but I thought Pete was a great coach.”