Antonio Pierce Reminded Everyone Of Patriots’ Super Bowl XLII Defeat, That Did Not Sit Well With Josh McDaniels

In Las Vegas, the Josh McDaniels era will go down as a forgettable one. In light of the club’s ongoing difficulties, McDaniels was dismissed on Wednesday. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport even claimed that the former coach was broken at a team meeting with Raiders players on October 26.

Before a humiliating defeat to the Lions on Monday night, McDaniels was criticized by players and coaches during this meeting, which left him quite different from his normal self. But since then, some more information from the meeting has surfaced, highlighting McDaniels’s contempt for any disparagement of his previous club, the Patriots.

Antonio Pierce Reminded Everyone Of Patriots’ Super Bowl XLII Defeat, That Did Not Sit Well With Josh McDaniels

A conversation between McDaniels and Antonio Pierce, the man who would succeed him, is giving that session of airing complaints a deeper depth.

On Sunday afternoon, McDaniels took issue with a remark made by Pierce during that discussion, according to Fox NFL insider Jay Glazer.

Pierce had stood up to address the group on behalf of McDaniels and the coaching staff when he began discussing the importance of the Raiders having a distinct culture.

He gave an example from his time as a player for the Giants during their 2007–08 Super Bowl victory.

“Josh McDaniels then goes over to him and says, ‘Don’t ever talk about the Patriots like that,’” Glazer said. “And then you really saw how divided the building got. That got up to Mark Davis, and I think Davis looked at it and [went], ‘OK, I’m gonna choose the guy who believes we can win every single week.’”

It seems that McDaniels found this quite offensive and advised Pierce never to discuss the Patriots in such a manner again. What a deficiency in self-awareness.

I am aware that McDaniels probably has a particular fondness for New England and Bill Belichick. That is, after all, where he spent years making his living, mostly as an offensive coordinator.

 

 

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