The Las Vegas Raiders are rebooting once again, as they fired Antonio Pierce after his first season as the team's full-time head coach.
The Raiders’ house is officially clean. Las Vegas fired GM Tom Telesco on Thursday, two days after the team moved on from coach Antonio Pierce. “We appreciate his efforts in helping build a foundation for the future. We wish Tom and his family all the best,” the team said in a statement.
Eyebrows were raised when NFL Media's Tom Pelissero reported shortly after the Las Vegas Raiders fired head coach Antonio Pierce that Raiders minority owner Tom Brady "spoke recently" with current North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Bill Belichick "about what it would take to make a reunion happen in Las Vegas.
The Antonio Pierce era is over in Las Vegas. The Raiders fired Pierce on Tuesday after going 4-13 in his lone season as the full-time head coach. Pierce, a former Giants linebacker, is the third NFL head coach to be fired since the regular season ended Sunday.
North Carolina responded sharply to rumors of Bill Belichick approaching an NFL franchise about returning to coaching in the professional league.
Bill Belichick has a simple way out of the North Carolina contract as NFL teams reach out about a potential return to coaching.
Even if, at this point, the University of North Carolina head coach is not ... search after the team fired former head coach Antonio Pierce on Tuesday. And while Belichick and Brady had a rough ...
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders fired coach Antonio Pierce on Tuesday, the team announced. He lasted just one full season on the job after getting promoted last offseason from interim coach.
According to the NFL Network, “multiple” NFL teams have approached Belichick about their coaching vacancies. And one of those teams is the Las Vegas Raiders, where Tom Brady is a minority owner.
Bet365 sportsbook, which doesn’t operate in Nevada, has posted odds on the Raiders’ next coach and lists 11 candidates at odds of 14-1 or less.
Johnson has emerged as the runaway favorite to land the Las Vegas gig with NFL Network Ian Rapoport reporting earlier this week that, “there are a lot of people who, frankly, think he is getting it.”
The football world was stunned when legendary head coach Bill Belichick accepted the role of leading the University of North Carolina football team. Now, just over a month after agreeing to a five-year contract,