Las Vegas Raiders fire coach Antonio Pierce after he goes 4-13 in lone full season

HENDERSON, Nev. -- The Las Vegas Raiders fired Antonio Pierce connected Tuesday aft conscionable 1 play arsenic their full-time coach, the latest successful a enactment of coaching changes implicit the past respective years.

"We admit Antonio's leadership, archetypal arsenic an interim caput manager and this past play arsenic the caput coach," the squad said successful a statement. "Antonio grew up a Raiders instrumentality and his Silver and Black roots tally deep. We are grateful for his quality to reignite what it means to beryllium a Raider passim the full organization. We privation thing but the champion for Antonio and his household successful the future."

Pierce took implicit arsenic the interim manager midway done the 2023 play and went 5-4 the remainder of the way, earning beardown subordinate enactment for him to get the occupation connected a full-time basis.

But the Raiders, aft a 2-2 start, went connected a 10-game losing streak to enactment his occupation successful jeopardy. The Raiders dealt with a fig of injuries including to antiaircraft linemen Maxx Crosby and Christian Wilkins, navigated the Davante Adams aboriginal play play that culminated with a commercialized to the New York Jets and finished the play 4-13.

Pierce was the 4th full-time Raiders manager - Rich Bisaccia closed retired the 2021 play arsenic the interim manager - successful the past decade.

As for wherever the Raiders crook next, Mike Vrabel has been rumored arsenic a imaginable candidate. He and Raiders number proprietor Tom Brady were teammates with the Patriots, but Vrabel besides figures to pull a batch of attraction from different clubs with openings, possibly including successful New England.

There are different pressing issues than coach. Las Vegas needs a franchise quarterback, thing Pierce did not person astatine his disposal. Aidan O'Connell has proven to beryllium a susceptible starter but hasn't shown helium has the quality oregon consistency to instrumentality a squad heavy into the playoffs.

But simply making the playoffs would beryllium a large measurement guardant for whichever manager gets the job. The Raiders' astir caller postseason quality was 3 years ago; earlier that, they precocious to the playoffs conscionable erstwhile since losing successful the Super Bowl for the 2002 season.

General manager Tom Telesco volition request to hole a fig of a fig of holes to springiness the caller manager a tenable accidental to compete, astir notably addressing moving backmost and wide receiver and uncovering much extent for the defense.