After the Las Vegas Raiders slighted their last interim coach, Antonio Pierce might have a serious opportunity to earn the full-time job.
Antonio Pierce is the interim coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Could he get the full-time job? Mark Davis is, remarkably, in almost the same spot he found himself two years ago: with more than two full months remaining on the NFL schedule and someone with no head coaching experience running his football club.to fire Josh McDaniels
and the coach’s handpicked general manager and offensive coordinator following Monday night’s dire outing against the Detroit Lions.
Player morale in Las Vegas was low before the change, and many of the stars Davis is paying the most money were desperate to get out at the deadline. If that sentiment changes a bit under Pierce, that too would hold sway with the owner, rival executives believe. Winning games with this roster won’t be easy, but more conventional coaching moves have brought Davis nothing but sunk costs to this point.
Seller’s remorse about Bisaccia might just lead to buying the interim coach this time around. And the bar for progress in Vegas is currently set quite low.Disgruntled Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson, whom the team opted not to make clearly available until very close to the trade deadline, has no future in Chicago.Sometimes, post-deadline rhetoric is just talk, but in this case when Johnson says he is not interested in a contract extension with the Bears, believe him.
doesn’t quickly sign an extension with Chicago — and one general manager said Sweat wasn’t nearly as keen on going to the Bears as he was to the Falcons — then Johnson’s departure is all the more guaranteed. “Their franchise tag goes to Sweat, so the corner is gone,” another general manager said. “And Sweat has the gun to their head in the negotiation.
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