Pete Carroll is not the kind of old dog that won’t learn new tricks.

The Raiders coach admits there was a time when he would rely almost exclusively on instinct when gauging when to leave his offense on the field to go for it on fourth down.

But he isn’t one of the old-school coaches who have had to be pulled kicking and screaming into the current day of mathematics-focused decision making.

The Raiders rank high this season in fourth-down conversion attempts in situations where computer models suggest they should go for it.

One model even ranks Carroll atop the league’s coaches in that category, just ahead of the notoriously aggressive Dan Campbell of the Lions.

“I didn’t know where we were (in terms of rankings), but I know we’re very comfortable with the process and the situations,”

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