Las Vegas Raiders Coach Antonio Pierce spoke on Wednesday ahead of the Silver and Black matchup with the Carolina Panthers, and we have everything that he said.
The Las Vegas Raiders are back home in the heat of the desert to host the Carolina Panthers this weekend at the air-conditioned and comfortable confines of Allegiant Stadium.
Coach Pierce: "Experience. The good thing about it, we've got a gentleman on our staff who drafted him, knows him very well. We played against Andy actually two years ago as well with New Orleans. So, there's some familiarity with us. Obviously, what are they going to do scheme wise just in a couple of days? He's a vet.
Coach Pierce: "Well, we're just excited to be back home. Training camp we were away. Preseason first game we were away. First two games in the regular season we were away. This is a great opportunity for us to come home in front of our family, friends, the fans, Raider Nation, the black hole. I mean to be honest, we're excited. Our guys are extremely excited about this opportunity. We feel like we're going to have a great showing, and we need to put up a great show.
Coach Pierce: "I mean all of them. I mean listen, just the way it worked out last week you had two players with nine plus receptions and they had the hot hand. I don't know who it's going to be this week. You hope each and every week somebody else steps up, right? We hope the running game, first and foremost, steps up this week. We'll start there. Then Jakobi , then Tre . We haven't gotten the ball to a lot of our guys, and that starts with us on third down.
Coach Pierce: "Yeah, when I come up here, and I say it, I'm not just talking in coaching cliché. We need to run the ball, it needs to be balanced. Right now, we haven't been balanced, and that's really tough on our offensive line. It's tough on our quarterback, because guys are just teeing off. Their in three-point track stances just running laps around our guys. That's not how we want to play football, nor is that how we want it to look.
Coach Pierce: "Yeah, I mean I can go up to Gardner and give him a pep talk too, but it's different when it comes from Maxx Crosby, right? It's different when it comes from a Robert Spillane. Like I said, that is just showing the togetherness of our team. Everything that we worked on in training camp and the offseason, building that bond, building that closeness with one another. 'Hey, I got your back.' Bad play, 'Ok, cool. I got you.
Coach Pierce: "Yeah, I mean I thought last week, it's kind of the same situation. That game almost played out exact same way as Week One. And Marvin , I went to him about a question about situational football, third and fourth down and he said, 'AP go with your gut.' It's just things like that you need, like, 'Don't worry, last week is last week.
Coach Pierce: "I mean there's always a learning curve, but this is not about learning. This is not mental, this is just technique and fundamentals, right? This is just, I need a little bit of strain. We've just got to do it well enough. We don't have enough runs to even judge our running game off of, it's not even good enough. It's less than 40 runs. It's not good enough, to be honest.
Coach Pierce: “That was a problem, communication was a major problem. And then we made a change at guard and that kind of helped us with the communication.”
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