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Raiders Drafting 6th, Do They Keep Head Coach Antonio Pierce
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1/8/2025
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but the Raiders now, Scott, fall all the way out of even the top five of the first round of the NFL
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draft. They're drafting sixth overall. Do you believe Antonio Pierce will still be the head
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coach when the Raiders make that first-round selection at the end of April? Well, I would say
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yes. You know, I thought maybe Rabel would go out with Tom Brady with the Raiders, but, you know,
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as we're both speculating here, we're thinking that's a done deal with the New England Patriots,
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although who knows, right? So I would say yes, he would, but, I mean, you thought, you know,
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the New England wins this week, screws up the first overall pick, Giants win two weeks ago,
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screws up the first overall pick, and then the Raiders decide to win two of the last three for
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what purposes? At least, do they want to go into next season with Aiden O'Connell, who played
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fairly well the last two out of three weeks? He showed a little bit, but, boy, you know, I don't
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know if you want to say here, Aiden O'Connell, here's a football team, you know, go win us,
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you know, nine to ten games, especially in that division, right? You're going up against Justin
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Herbert, Patton Holmes, and now even Bo Nix, and you're going to throw the Aiden O'Connell? I mean,
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good luck with that. They needed to lose. I'll tell you, Ben, I've had this conversation with
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others. I am amazed that the NFL can do what they do, unlike the NHL and the NBA and Major League
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Baseball, where you don't make the playoffs, you put into a pot your ping pong balls in the NBA
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and NHL and figure out the percentages, how many ping pong balls you get. The NFL is just straight,
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whatever your record is, that's it, and tiebreakers, you know, strength of schedule,
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and why these teams that are in the playoffs, and we're talking about, you know, the New York
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Giants have been in the NFL forever. The Oakland, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, call them what you want,
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Raiders have been in the AFL-NFL forever. They know, Patriots as well, they know the importance
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of finishing, you know, with the first or second overall pick, especially this year,
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and yet those are the teams that just win games down the stretch that are meaningless.
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You accomplish nothing, Raiders. You accomplish nothing, Patriots. You know,
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the head coaches are going to get fired whether they have three wins or four wins or two wins.
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I don't think it's going to make any, like the Raiders all of a sudden aren't going to keep
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Antonio Pierce because they got four wins versus the two that they would have had if he hadn't
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won two of the last three. I'm amazed that these teams don't lose these games on purpose,
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like we see in the NBA all the time, right? But the NFL's lucky they don't have to have
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that ping pong ball situation because these teams all seemingly try and win.
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I think he'll probably be there. I think, you know, he deserves another crack, you know,
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one year for a head coach. He had a few games the year before, but they've gone through head
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coaches here, you know, so I would think he would get a second year.
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