Antonio Pierce: Raiders now have a recipe for how to beat the Chiefs going forward
The Las Vegas Raiders got a week’s vacation courtesy of the Chiefs.
Because Allegiant Stadium was the site of Super Bowl LVIII, the Chiefs used the Raiders practice facility. Las Vegas coach Antonio Pierce said on Raiders star Maxx Crobsy’s “The Rush” podcast that the team was barred from visiting their facility while the Chiefs were there.
“It’s tough because we can’t go in the building. Like we’re locked out, too,” Pierce said.
Crosby added: “The NFL rules everything.”
But Pierce then noted the Raiders were the last team to beat the Chiefs when Las Vegas won 20-14 on Christmas Day at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. Pierce called it a blueprint for beating the Chiefs going forward.
“We’ll run it back. We’ll see them again. ... We already given a recipe on how to do it,” Pierce said. “These guys know what it’s like to go do it on a day where we ... were the first show on that day. That was probably at 10 o’clock (in Vegas), 12 o’clock their time. There was no NBA. LeBron wasn’t playing yet. Everybody was watching the Raiders versus the Chiefs. And I told these guys, I said, ‘Listen, this is our time.’
“Maxx knows exactly how we built up that week when I was doing a build up that week to hate the color red. We saw red, we hate red. It was on that kind of level. I told them there’s a difference between dislike and hatred. There is a hatred for the Chiefs. You’ve got to truly dislike and hate this individual team.”
Las Vegas scored two defensive touchdowns in a 7-second span of the second quarter turning a 7-3 deficit into a 17-7 lead on Christmas. The Raiders didn’t have any passing yards in the second half and scored just three points, but they came away with the victory.
The Raiders lit up celebratory cigars in the locker room following the game.
Pierce said in the days leading up to the Christmas Day game against the Chiefs he showed the team clips of famous fights, including Thomas Hearns-Marvin Hagler, Nate Diaz-Conor McGregor and Muhammad Ali bouts.
The Raiders also were shown clips of the Detroit Pistons pounding on Bulls star Michael Jordan from the 1980s and 90s. The Pistons dubbed it “The Jordan Rules.”
“We’ve got the Jordan Rules and we’ve got what I’m calling now as long as I’m here, the Patrick Mahomes Rules,” Pierce said. “So you remember when Jordan was going through it with the Pistons, all those guys in the ’80s before he became Air Jordan, the Pistons used to whip his (butt). Any time he came to the hole: elbows, feeling him, love taps, we touched him. We’re in his head, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. I’m touching you.
“So I showed my guys Jordan getting his (tail) whooped, consistently.”
Here is Pierce talking about the Chiefs and Mahomes.
