When the Las Vegas Raiders fired head coach Josh McDaniels earlier this season, they replaced him with Raiders linebackers coach Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach. Pierce has performed well in the role, and it sounds like he thinks he deserves the full-time job.
During a press conference this week, Antonio Pierce made it clear that he thinks he deserves a chance to lead the team full-time after what he’s done this season.
“My resume is on the grass. What do you want?” Pierce said according to Tyler Dragon of USA Today. “I can put up a fancy presentation. I’ve seen that before. I can put up stats. I can put up my resume. But the best thing that happened for me was an opportunity. I said this maybe last week, the worst day I was going to be as a head coach was my first day. And each day is my job, and I really take pride in growing each and every day to get better. No different than when I was a player to get better.
“By the end, you look at it, whatever your career was and whatever my coaching career is, and you sit there and say, ‘Look, this is what he was.’ And hopefully Mark Davis sees improvement and growth within our team. He sees the style and play that he wants from the Raiders. He sees a fan base that’s behind us. He sees a building that loves coming to work and loves being here. And people that’s covering the team, enjoying covering the team. And at the end of the day, we’ve got to win. And right now, my record, our record is 4-3.”
It’s clear that the team is performing much better with Pierce leading the way. We’ll have to see if he gets a chance to do it full-time.
