The Las Vegas Raiders, when they fired Josh McDaniels last season, turned to the one guy on the coaching staff who could relate to the players the most. They turned to the one guy who, during a very difficult time, made the locker room still feel something. Of course, they made the decision to hire former Super Bowl-winning linebacker and linebackers coach Antonio Pierce as interim head coach.
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With ultimatums, blackmails, and players giving their pitches for Pierce, the Raiders took a shot and hired him as the full-time head coach. And, they had a good reason to outside of the players having Pierce’s back. There was proof in front of their face that it could work.
Raiders’ coaching experiment failed
The Raiders tried that with Pierce, and, hey, that’s fine, they tried something that was trending and that has worked with other teams and went for it. But, it hasn’t worked and has in fact backfired in their face. You could say that it’s going miserably.
And, it is. But, at the same time, this is a team that needs a lot of work. And, while Pierce is technically in his second season, and 2-8 in his second season, the other coaches made significant leaps or didn’t have a down year in their first year. Campbell was 3-13 in year one, 9-8 in year two. Ryans was a playoff team in year one.
Now, that doesn’t mean it still can’t work, but so far it has backfired.
The Raiders play the Denver Broncos this weekend, and then will play the Kansas City Chiefs after.
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