Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss the Raiders head coach’s comments following Sunday’s loss to the Panthers. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
For the second time in three weeks.
The Raiders don’t look particularly good.
They don’t look particularly fired up.
They got their butts kicked by Andy Dalton and the Carolina Panthers in just a thorough 3622 is the final score that includes garbage points that don’t belong.
I thought that Antonio Pierce who we all acknowledge is really a motivational coach would come out and would give these guys the fire of the gods that they needed to come off of a huge win against Baltimore and still have that pop.
They did not have that pop.
He was asked to report by a reporter about, uh the effort of the team.
This is what coach Pierce had to say.
I think as the game went on, I don’t think it was a team.
It was, I think there was definitely some individuals that made business decisions and we make business decisions going forward as well.
When you make that comment as a coach, which I actually love, I love that.
You’re just saying, hey, I saw it.
You better do something about it now, like now that you put it out in the world, you better be benching somebody cutting somebody trading somebody like you can’t walk that back like you can’t say that well, we handled it internally.
Nope, you chose in that moment A P to handle that in front of a microphone.
So now if you’re gonna have the big boy talk, you better back it up with some big boy actions in the next 48 to 72 hours.
Otherwise everybody’s gonna know that you just talk flows really well into my thought about it is that is Antonio Pierce all talk like I, I thought that we talked about this.
He deserved to get that job.
He deserves a shot at it.
So, hey, you, you turn things around these guys played hard for you.
Let’s see what you could do.
But I wondered, did he just get the shot at that job because of a little bit of bluster?
He says the right things.
He, he knows how to speak to the fan base and find them up.
He, he doesn’t know how to, he’s a former player.
He knows how to speak to players.
Obviously, you’re gonna, you’re gonna call guys out like that.
You should be calling yourself out too like you, you should be say I didn’t have my team ready to go.
He did a lot of talking and I don’t know if it’s, it’s all talk with Pierce.
We’re gonna find out as we go so early in the season you’ll get the full year, all that stuff.
But I’m really interested to see where the Santonio Pierce thing goes.
