Antonio Pierce Fired as Raiders Head Coach After One Season

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00:00Despite the Raiders sending Antonio Pierce out there for a press conference on Monday as a

00:07postpartum for the disastrous four-win season that was, that led to Antonio Pierce saying,

00:13yeah, I'm coaching like I still have a job until I am told otherwise. I guess yesterday,

00:20Pierce was told otherwise after only one year as the full-time head coach in Sin City.

00:26Antonio Pierce fired by this Raiders organization. DRS, what was your reaction to this big news

00:33yesterday afternoon? It wasn't surprising to me because, you know, again, the failures of

00:38the organization, and this has nothing to do with Antonio Pierce who rallied the troops last year

00:43and then got the head coaching job for this year, but the expectations always were,

00:47let me get this straight, Denver probably won't be really that good because they're breaking in

00:50Bo Nix. They have a lot of dead cap space. They turned out to be really good. Peyton's,

00:55probably going to be a Hall of Fame head coach when it's all said and done. Bo Nix was a really

00:59hit on a first-round draft pick, and away you go. But then you took a look at the Chargers,

01:03like, boy, that seems going to be really good the next couple years, and then it's always the

01:06Kansas City Chiefs. But if anybody looked at Antonio Pierce's job and said, come on, man,

01:10you got to have at least nine or ten wins out of the team, nobody thought that. We thought the

01:13Raiders would stink coming into the year, and they did. That's no indication on the head coach and

01:17how it played out. Here's the problem that you made. You put a head coach in there with no,

01:22did we really think he was going to be like the building block guy and say, you know what,

01:25we're going to draft quarterbacks and you're going to hone the skills? No. He got the team

01:28to play for him, which is something that is tough to do sometimes on a least talented team, like you

01:33take a look at the Raiders. But for my money moving forward, why didn't you fire him midway

01:36through the season? Because what really hurt you was beating the Jaguars and beating the Saints

01:40late, when you could have fired him five games left in the season. Interim coach, you know what

01:45your job is. I can't tell you to lose, but you know what your job is. It's to lose at this point

01:50here. So that's the only thing I'm disappointed. He's going to be fine. And for the people out

01:53there, it's unfair. And I can't believe they did this to the coach. He wins. Let's just say most

01:58coaches get four to five year contracts with guaranteed money. He worked one season and got

02:03fired, which means he's going to go to another team and still get that head coaching money from

02:07the Raiders to not be a head coach, or he can be very personal. He'd go right into the booth and

02:12do jobs where they want to do color commentating or just be a part of a pregame show and get those

02:16big checks here. He's not the loser. The Raiders are the losers. And the next coach coming in,

02:20he's going to be the loser. Why? Because the Davis family is still in ownership.

02:25Put it into perspective here, right? Only in sports. Let's just say if your father

02:29was a neurosurgeon, like, hey, that's awesome. And when he retired, your son, even if he didn't

02:34go to school, got to be the neurosurgeon. That doesn't happen in real life. But in the NFL,

02:39it does. Hey, just hand it over to my son who knows nothing and runs it into the ground,

02:43but still makes a profit. I feel bad for AP. I feel bad for the Raiders fans.