FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Pete Carroll has a formula and boy, does it work.

The 73-year-old coach is now 25-11 when bringing an NFL team three time zones east for a 10 a.m. PT kickoff. The latest such victory came in his Raiders debut Sunday.

The team beat New England 20-13 at Gillette Stadium in a sometimes driving rain after trailing 10-7 at halftime.

I’m not sure how many Raiders teams of recent memory would have pulled this off. Not a lot. But Carroll kept his group energized and engaged. He and his coaching staff made the right adjustments. They were just better than their counterparts standing along the Patriots’ sideline.

Carroll’s players will tell you it’s all in the preparation. That arriving two days early rather than one helped. That meetings were extra productive. That coaches w

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