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Antonio Pierce Fired as Raiders Head Coach After One Season
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1/8/2025
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Despite the Raiders sending Antonio Pierce out there for a press conference on Monday as a
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postpartum for the disastrous four-win season that was, that led to Antonio Pierce saying,
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yeah, I'm coaching like I still have a job until I am told otherwise. I guess yesterday,
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Pierce was told otherwise after only one year as the full-time head coach in Sin City.
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Antonio Pierce fired by this Raiders organization. DRS, what was your reaction to this big news
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yesterday afternoon? It wasn't surprising to me because, you know, again, the failures of
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the organization, and this has nothing to do with Antonio Pierce who rallied the troops last year
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and then got the head coaching job for this year, but the expectations always were,
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let me get this straight, Denver probably won't be really that good because they're breaking in
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Bo Nix. They have a lot of dead cap space. They turned out to be really good. Peyton's,
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probably going to be a Hall of Fame head coach when it's all said and done. Bo Nix was a really
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hit on a first-round draft pick, and away you go. But then you took a look at the Chargers,
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like, boy, that seems going to be really good the next couple years, and then it's always the
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Kansas City Chiefs. But if anybody looked at Antonio Pierce's job and said, come on, man,
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you got to have at least nine or ten wins out of the team, nobody thought that. We thought the
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Raiders would stink coming into the year, and they did. That's no indication on the head coach and
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how it played out. Here's the problem that you made. You put a head coach in there with no,
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did we really think he was going to be like the building block guy and say, you know what,
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we're going to draft quarterbacks and you're going to hone the skills? No. He got the team
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to play for him, which is something that is tough to do sometimes on a least talented team, like you
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take a look at the Raiders. But for my money moving forward, why didn't you fire him midway
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through the season? Because what really hurt you was beating the Jaguars and beating the Saints
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late, when you could have fired him five games left in the season. Interim coach, you know what
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your job is. I can't tell you to lose, but you know what your job is. It's to lose at this point
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here. So that's the only thing I'm disappointed. He's going to be fine. And for the people out
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there, it's unfair. And I can't believe they did this to the coach. He wins. Let's just say most
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coaches get four to five year contracts with guaranteed money. He worked one season and got
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fired, which means he's going to go to another team and still get that head coaching money from
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the Raiders to not be a head coach, or he can be very personal. He'd go right into the booth and
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do jobs where they want to do color commentating or just be a part of a pregame show and get those
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big checks here. He's not the loser. The Raiders are the losers. And the next coach coming in,
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he's going to be the loser. Why? Because the Davis family is still in ownership.
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Put it into perspective here, right? Only in sports. Let's just say if your father
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was a neurosurgeon, like, hey, that's awesome. And when he retired, your son, even if he didn't
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go to school, got to be the neurosurgeon. That doesn't happen in real life. But in the NFL,
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it does. Hey, just hand it over to my son who knows nothing and runs it into the ground,
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but still makes a profit. I feel bad for AP. I feel bad for the Raiders fans.
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