{"id":113944,"date":"2024-04-20T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/?p=113944"},"modified":"2024-04-20T03:45:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:45:32","slug":"mark-davis-considered-legendary-coach-for-raiders-opening-report-nguyensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nflquynh.aweu.info\/mark-davis-considered-legendary-coach-for-raiders-opening-report-nguyensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Davis Considered Legendary Coach for Raiders Opening: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1776912147-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"mark davis antonio pierce\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"87\" data-img-load-time=\"184\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Getty\u00a0Mark Davis with Antonio Pierce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the\u00a0Las Vegas Raiders\u00a0fired\u00a0Josh McDaniels\u00a0during the 2023 season and promoted Antonio Pierce to interim head coach, it looked like the team would undergo big transformations after the season. However, Pierce ended up doing well in the position and earned the full-time head coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>That almost wasn\u2019t the case as owner\u00a0Mark Davis\u00a0did consider his options. One of those options involved legendary former\u00a0New England Patriots\u00a0coach Bill Belichick, per a report from ESPN\u2019s Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham and Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Raiders had just fired a pair of Belichick\u2019s former acolytes in Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler,\u201d Van Natta, Wickersham and Fowler wrote in an\u00a0April 17 column. \u201cOwner Mark Davis considered reaching out to Belichick but instead removed the interim from head coach Antonio Pierce\u2019s title after interviewing other candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Davis\u2019 interest in Belichick was just exploratory but it\u2019s something he at least considered. Belichick has six Super Bowl championships as a head coach and is one of the greatest coaches in NFL history. Despite that, he didn\u2019t land a head coaching job this offseason. Belichick has a way he likes to do things and that rubs some people the wrong way. Pierce has been all about good vibes since getting the Raiders job so Davis must have preferred to have more of a positive culture after moving on from McDaniels.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Return to Patriot Way Would\u2019ve Been Controversial<\/h2>\n<p>Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler tried to bring the \u201cPatriot Way\u201d to Las Vegas and it failed. The \u201cPatriot Way\u201d is about stressing the details and playing clean football. While it\u2019s proven successful, it takes a lot of the fun out of playing football.<\/p>\n<p>The attitude of Raiders players\u00a0changed overnight\u00a0after McDaniels and Ziegler were fired. The \u201cPatriot Way\u201d didn\u2019t lead to much winning in Las Vegas, which makes it much harder to follow. The \u201cPatriot Way\u201d even stopped working in New England as the Patriots missed the playoffs in three of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>A return to the \u201cPatriot Way\u201d in Las Vegas likely wouldn\u2019t have been met with open arms from players and fans, even if it was with Belichick. He\u2019s one of the greatest coaches ever but the timing for him potentially joining the Raiders\u00a0was not right.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cb343cff7b20c8f260b2d07c692be312\">\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBill didn\u2019t have the respect to say anything to me after the game\u2026kind of felt disrespected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#Raiders\u00a0Adam Butler spent 4 seasons in New England and didn\u2019t hold back on Bill Belichick after the game.\u00a0#RaiderNation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Was Antonio Pierce the Right Choice?<\/h2>\n<p>There were some very strong coaches available for the Raiders to hire this offseason, including Bill Belichick,\u00a0Jim Harbaugh\u00a0and Mike Vrabel. While those three are more proven than\u00a0Antonio Pierce, the Raiders didn\u2019t even interview any of them. The team was clearly sold on Pierce after he went 5-4 as the interim head coach and had players vouching for him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly a risky choice considering Pierce has only been coaching at the NFL level for two years. He\u2019s second-to-none when it comes to being a motivator but it remains to be seen how he\u2019ll be with game management. The Raiders have tried so many different head coaches over the years and all of them have failed over the last two decades. The team is trying something different by going with the inexperienced Pierce but perhaps they needed to take a big swing to finally find the right guy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Mark Davis with Antonio Pierce. 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