Antonio Pierce: I Want People To Enjoy Going To Work

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Coming up, Raiders Head Coach Antonio Pierce. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show's on the air.

What a great show we've had so far. If I don't mind saying so myself, Kevin Burkhardt in studio. Hour number one, he called last year's Super Bowl. We just chatted with Jim Nantz, who's calling this year's Super Bowl his seventh for CBS.

You can stream that game on Paramount Plus right here through the Roku portal. It's all good in our hood. Coming up in the following three days, we're going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada. As soon as we're done with this show, we're heading to the airport. We are out the door. We've got Andrew Whitworth in hour number two. We had a great conversation with him. If you missed it, don't worry. We re-air at the end of this hour.

That includes Antonio Pierce. We're about to get to overreaction Monday on a Tuesday as well. So much going on in our world.

It's silly. But we're all over Super Bowl 58, which we're excited about. 844-204 Rich, number to dial. Let's take this phone call. Roger in York, PA.

He's been hanging on for almost two hours. What's up, Roger? Hey, Rich. I've been wanting to talk to you about our boys so long. I like the crystal ball, by the way.

Talent is an aphrodisiac. No, I was looking for it, but I forgot. I craned it back to where we normally have it on the set. Understood.

I have a hernia right now, so don't try anything funny. Understood. Understood. Talent is an aphrodisiac. The numbers never lie. And having said that, I want to talk about our boy, the little cyclone that could be P-13 Brock Purdy. Did you hear him chanting in San Fran, Brocky, Brocky, Brocky? That was just wild, wild stuff. Anyhow, when did Matt Campbell, head coach of Iowa State, you know when he said he knew?

Practice 13. Just wild that this kid came in and, boom, wound up playing Oklahoma. Oklahoma State, Texas. Texas A&M.

No big thing. And then he gets thrown to the 49ers in whatever of last year, his rookie year. And year two, he's about to do it. I seen he just signed some endorsement deals, so he's about to get exposed as far as to everybody else that doesn't know.

But when they watch on Sunday, they're going to see. And I'm pretty sure next Monday night, Rich, I don't know if it's going to be which late night talk show, but he's going to be there as a guest. I hope so. For your sake, Roger, thanks for the call.

Appreciate you hanging on for as long as you did. I mean, that would be huge. Huge. Man. We've already gotten a couple more 49ers picks today, right? Yeah, actually, 49ers are now up 3-1. Who's the one? Do you count in Stonestreet? No, well, no. The first one.

Chris Long took the Chiefs. Oh, that's right, that's right. All right. I'm going to go here. And I know this is potentially dangerous for us to have this conversation, but it's come to my attention that somebody here, if not multiple people, are checking bags on this flight today. We're all heading to the airport. We're all going in a van together. And we're all getting on this plane. And then when we land, there's a van for everybody.

Some people will be ready because they're just going to be carrying on for a three-day, three-night trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. I have to stay the weekend. I got another job. I got to stay. I'm hearing somebody's checking bags, which means people got to wait for your bags to come off before everybody gets on the van.

Is this true? I'm going to speak for the group. Okay.

And here's my issue with you taking issue. How long are you staying? I'm staying for all the way through to Sunday. Oh, so like six days?

Oh, so you fit all six days' worth of clothes in one roller? Nope. I shipped. We didn't have that option. Did you ask?

Would it have been provided? Uh, yes. Yeah, right. Why? Why? What are you laughing about?

Because you're just covering your tracks. See, we don't have the option of shipping. You're not staying six days. You're staying three days.

We don't have another... You're staying three days. Rich, but it's show outfits and it's Vegas outfits. Vegas outfits. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean...

So those don't fit in a carry-on? What am I supposed to do? Wear the same pair of drawers all day? Like, what? No.

Multiple pairs of sneakers, Rich, because... Obviously. So, look, I'm just saying, I'm going to defend the group here and say... So are you... You taking umbrage? Eh, kind of out of bounds. Out of bounds. I'm... Out of bounds.

By the way, absolutely both feet in. Don't even need to throw a challenge flag. Replay assist isn't even chiming in. This is not reviewable.

It's not even a reviewable penalty right here. Why are you laughing? Where do you stand on this thing?

Where are you standing on this thing? Well, I'm staying for six days, too, so... But you... Okay. Right. So you're checking a bag, too? Yeah. The three of us discussed it last night. But what about other people who are... We're in Vegas.

It's 15 minutes. We can get our own ride to wherever we're going. I don't want to hold anybody up. Sounds like a YP. I'm not asking. By the way, I'm checking a bag because... Why are you checking a bag? Like, what is it?

We just described to you. Because it's sneakers? No. Outfit. Outfit. I might want to have maybe a change of clothes. I don't know. But the thing is, I'm not asking to hold anybody up in the airport for me. I've got more sponsors tonight.

Our sponsors that are helping us and who might have covered the cost of shipping your gear. I've got to do that. I'm wearing this. This is where I'm going. I'm not changing.

Great. But you have the option to if you wanted to, right? The option to change? If you wanted to.

Yeah. I'm a grown ass man. If I wanted to change, I would change clothes. But I don't have to. Because I'm going to go on a plane. We're going to go take a look at the set. And then from there, I'm going straight into business mode. I'm in business mode. That's what me and Fella are going to be in.

Road trip! So you're leaving Friday, right? After the show, right? Is that when you're leaving? Maybe. We need to check a bag for tonight, Wednesday night, Thursday night, and then show days clothes. We all have a chance that we might stay a party that we don't know yet.

I want the record to show all of my stuff fits in non-checked bags. I'm checking in solidarity. Oh. In solidarity?

Wait a second. Well, you're like, you might as well, if you're along for the ride, you might as well, what do you care? What about people who are just like, I want to get to the set. I want to get moving.

What's the rush? But also, I'm not, I've said this, I'm not asking anybody the way, I've been to Vegas, and I've worked in Vegas, I know Vegas, like, I can get there myself, so I'm not... Have you been to Vegas at a Super Bowl? Have you ever been to Vegas this year, you know, while you haven't, because it hasn't existed.

I've been to Vegas during fights. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. It's not going to be busy. Oh, God. We can get our own ride.

I'm not asking the van to waste for me. Who is it that snitched on us, though? Who cares? What does that matter? What do you mean that doesn't matter?

It doesn't matter, dividing the group. You know who snitched? You know who snitched? I want to know so I don't have to talk to them. I'll tell you who snitched.

This whole week. Then don't talk to yourselves, because I hear what you morons are talking about before we go on the show. No, you don't. You don't care all that stuff. You guys are hard to look, checking bags. Are you just ignoring us sometime up there? I'm not ignoring you. I'm multitask. I'm able to prepare. I'm able to hear you. I'm able to decide whether to respond to some of the things I hear or not. And I just find it, you know, it's it's outrageous.

It is outrageous. Coach Darko is courageous on our end to you. By the way, this is the first time I've checked the bag in four years. So it's three days. Like, what are you doing?

Because there's a chance I might stay Saturday. Same with him. Same with him.

We don't know. OK. By the way, I got to take equipment to Jason's got to take our I.F.B.'s. He's got gear. Also, Chris saying he's doing it in solidarity.

Not quite true. By the way, Chris is the first person to say he's checking a bag. Dude. D.J., do you want me to have the text receipts? You're the first person to tell Liz that two weeks ago, you're like, I'm checking the bag. And I was like, all right, cool. I'll check a bag, too. Well, then yesterday I said you asked me if I was and I was like, nah, it's all going to fit in the carry. Then you threw me off because I had already had a suitcase pack.

I was like, nah, it's all going to fit. Great solidarity. Great solidarity.

It's just suddenly turned into Lord of the Flies in here. Listen. See what you started? Listen, I didn't start anything. You started all of this by trying to bag check shame people. I'm not shaming anybody. Guess what?

You're shameful. If they didn't want people to check bags, the airport wouldn't provide the service. I understand that. And there's reasons to check bags.

It's just like climbing my seat. There's reasons to check bags. No, I'm a good bag. You check bags when you're going to some place that's got potential climate change. You got it could be cold. Have you seen the weather in Vegas? I understand that.

It's 20 degrees and raining. But it's delicious. If you're going for a full week, if you're going for two weeks, I checked a bag flying to Europe. Of course you're going to do that.

But when you're going. But here's what here's here's here's what we're going to do. Take it to Twitter. And put a poll question. I don't care what they have to say. If you're on a business trip with others in a group, is it cool to check a bag or not for a three day trip to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl, three day trip, all the information, three day trip. Absolutely not. You have to put the number of days, but I have to put where we're going and what it's for. Sure.

So people have the full information information. Yeah. Also, like if we were going to some small town where the airport was an hour drive from the hotel thing. Yeah, if I had to wait, it's literally a few minutes away. I have a problem when somebody gets on an elevator after me and chooses a floor below the one I'm getting off on, which means I now have to wait 30 extra seconds. I was ready to go straight to floor 10.

Now I've got to stop at floor seven. That's a YP though, you realize that, right? That's a you problem. I get it. I understand that. It's just, it's the vagaries of elevator travel.

I understand that. Chris and I can't be in Vegas for three days, seeing people wearing the same pair of sneakers every day. If you're going on a business trip with other people and they are like normal, by just packing a carry on for a three day trip on a business trip, okay, right? And you go and you now have to have somebody sit there and wait for your bag.

For anybody. We're not driving an hour from the middle of anywhere. We're in Vegas. Okay. We can get our own ride from the airport, which by the way, we'll be there 12 minutes after you take it to Twitter or eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. Have somebody call.

You can call. I don't care. How would you like me?

I know what is this together? We're all going to like go our separate ways. What do you mean you're not going to ask? I was going to ask you how you want me to phrase it, but I'm going to phrase it how I want.

Fine. Clearly you're just doing whatever you want. That's what you're doing. You know what?

You're trying to. Don't be shameful. Don't be. Don't be shameful.

I'm being shameful. You know why? Because don't hate. I've got a different car ride anyway. Because I'm not. Yeah. You're not even in the van with us.

Exactly. I'm not waiting for talking about this whole segment. It's the principal.

The principal is rich. I wore a brand new flannel two weeks ago. I'm not waiting for you because I knew one of you schmuckos. No, because we got told on and I know who told on us. Nobody told you. Told on yourselves.

I'm sitting here listening. I don't know about that. And by the way, if it's Lizzie who told on you, it's too bad. As you know, it's too bad. I already got yelled at her by. I called and told her this morning and I got yelled at.

So I. She doesn't yell. She just talks forcefully. No, she yelled at me. She yells at me. From the East Coast.

She yells. Rich as a dill. I wore a brand new flannel two weeks ago and you said you liked it. It was the first time you ever complimented a piece of. Oh, you had to pack that?

I got a premat. And again, man, it must look good. So, you know.

Oh, my God. OK. My mom said outfits are important in Vegas. Thank you, Mary. Listen, I am supporting us.

I get it. Mom, love you. Hey, Mary, outfits are very important, but they can also be important and fit in a carry on bag that doesn't make everybody wait for your son's baggage. Look, Jack just texted me and said, you need at least one bag for the kicks. Jack knows my own nephew is turning on me. He's on our side.

Yes, he's watching. Hey, Jack, by the way, he he got me new Michigan kicks. Yeah. They're in my carry on bag. I didn't ship those. No, I didn't ship. Oh, interesting.

I'm going to. I didn't ship them. They're in my car.

Oh, nice. Without fit. That are important for tonight and tomorrow. You're going to fix my box. Didn't arrive.

Rich, I wear size thirteens. I can't get three of these. And I'm going to carry on. Come on. I can't wait to ask Antonio Pierce about this cultural Greek. That's next.

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Phone lines are lit. So do we go out the door with overreaction Monday on a Tuesday now and take phone calls until Antonio appears? Rich, someone said you're on your high horse here. High horse? Justice for T.J. and Brockman.

Justice. Shout out to Travis. High horse. Let's ride. What's a high horse? Rich is going pwomoloko is what they're saying, Rich.

You're shacking a bag. We're three days in Vegas, dude. Three days in Vegas. Rich, we got show outfit and we got Vegas outfit. We got invited to a little party by a pretty big podcast.

I don't know if we should mention this for solidarity. The new heights. You're going to be at the new heights one. Is that where you're going? Yeah. OK, great. Like I said earlier.

That's great. Do you know what? You know what?

It's on the new heights pond. You could show it without your shirt. And by the way. That's true.

Brockman did that when we kicked it. I didn't look at the fine print on that invitation. Does it say shirts are not required? You take the shirt off when you get there. It says dress like a house party. Can you see how Jason did at the Bell's Mafia?

He didn't show up shirtless. So you got to show up looking nice to the new heights. And then you rip the shirt off. So I mean, I'm sure, you know, I'm coming straight from honors to that thing. I want to be suited and booted. Well, you'll be overdressed.

So guess what? I'll be in a suit that you shipped. Correct. What's happening?

I shipped for you. Oh, really? Oh, that would have been nice to know. You know what? Next year.

Can we do a whole week from Nylons next year, Rich? Fine. Ship for all I care.

So much stuff. It means that I don't have to wait for you. Can we get your FedEx number? Which you wouldn't have done anyway. Yeah, that's true.

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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Our Super Bowl 58 conversation has now devolved into whether it's right to check a bag when you're in a group travel situation for work, and it's a three day trip. It's a three day trip. It's not like we're going to the South Pole. You got to dress Gore-Tex. Well, that'd be four bags.

I have some Gore-Tex Nikes I brought. All right, Michelle in Missouri, you're on the Rich Eyes and Show as Antonio Pierce is joining in 10 minutes. What's up, Michelle? I don't see an issue with this. I really don't. Thank you, Michelle. No, I don't.

How do you know which is the issue? Because she's- No, no, no. Michelle sounds like a rational human being. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Let Michelle speak. It would be such an O'Henry like twist if she takes my opinion now. She's from Missouri.

This would be great. She's one of the people. All right. Be quiet and let Michelle talk. I love you guys.

You guys are awesome. All right, Michelle, you have the floor. Yes. I just have a couple of minutes, but yeah, I don't see an issue. I really don't. If they want to take their clothes, go ahead.

But I'm also a chick. I probably over pack a little bit, but the dude's got size 13 shoes. My goodness.

Right? Big feet. How's he going to get those in there?

Easily. You put the shoes in there and you could take socks and underwear and stick them in the shoes. You actually cannot.

You cannot. What are you talking about? They stop you at TSA for stuff in the sneakers. What? Oh, no, I do that. They will. They'll make you take everything off.

Yes. I've done that. I've watched Friends and Janice Told Chandler. Well, guess what?

I'll tell you. Let's see if I get stopped in about an hour's time because stuff in your sneakers. Of course I do, because I'm economical when I pack. You don't follow the traveling rules, but then you have to take it out whenever you're going to TSA and then they look at you mad because you're going to the Super Bowl and they're not. Well, I mean, I don't have any notice on my bag that I'm going to the Super Bowl.

Maybe it's just my face. Yeah. All right, Michelle.

Let it go, let him take his stuff. It just makes it easier. All right. Thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Michelle.

There you go. Michelle in Missouri, everybody. Martin in Colorado. What's up, Martin?

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. This time, it's great to chime in on something other than Rich picking the Raiders to win the debate.

This time, I am on your side. Martin, dump this call, feller. Be quiet. Let Martin talk.

Put coal on the phone, Martin. Come on. Nothing worse. I've traveled for work.

I've traveled leisurely. Nothing worse than somebody causing the group to have to wait because their check bag's coming around the carousel, hopefully. Come on, guys. And they never... Martin, what are the odds it's one of the first bags off? Zero. It's impossible. Impossible. Zero. Correct.

Zero. Wait a minute. Please.

Martin, it's insane. And by the way, I would just love for one of your bags to take forever so you just feel the heat of others waiting for you. You don't gotta wait. That is so mean. Yeah.

Why would you want that for us? It's not mean. It's not mean.

Are you hoping our bags get lost too? No. Of course not. I didn't say that.

That's what it sounds like. I didn't say that. You're towing that line. I didn't say... That's what it feels like. I'm not towing the line. I'm not even approaching the line. I would never say that.

That's one of the most important outfits for show and night. Yeah. Thank you. Martin, thank you for your reasonableness. Martin, see what up to Gina.

Despite showing me the hot hat at the very top of that phone call. Sorry, Rich Eisen. Justin in Pasadena, you're on the Rich Eisen Show. What's up, Justin? You there, Justin? Oh, it's very loud in Pasadena. You there, Justin? What?

You there? This is Chris. No, it's Rich. It's all right, Justin. It's all right. It's all of us.

Yeah, I got the wrong one. What's up, Justin? Hey, Rich. How's it going?

What's up? With all due respect, you were the number one jersey, and you're always right about a lot of things, but your boys, this is Vegas, this is the show. I believe in you guys gotta let be on the bag all the time.

They can't let them carry whatever they want. Vegas is the big show. No, I get it, Justin, but you just didn't, Justin. Thank you very much, Justin.

Thank you very much. It's three nights. It's just three nights. It's just three nights.

Rich, baby. I hear you. So much can happen. But it's a show. Let the boys wear whatever they want.

I have no problem with them wearing whatever they want. I have a problem with them holding up the crew. You know? No. You're not even gonna wait for her. You got your own car, man. That's the confusing part. Why is it confusing? You're not at our hotel.

You ain't in the same car. It literally doesn't affect you. Yes, it does. How? How, Swain?

How, Swain? It affects me. In what way? Emotionally.

I'll be happy. Emotionally affects me. Appreciate you, Justin.

Thank you, Justin. It irritates me. One love.

One love. Irritates me. Why?

Don't you want us to feel good for our shows? Because I could've. For all you knew. Oh, you could've. For all you knew.

I could've been kept waiting. For all you knew, when you decided to pack a bag and check it. You're rich. You know how many times I've traveled with you?

A lot. Come on. We know your style.

I've even heard you say, I gotta shit my clothes ahead of time. Cora Adams sitting back there thinking, well. He's gotta go to the airport, too.

I got 40 minutes left of this and now it's fun to be ringing off the hook. Oh, it's RJ back here. It's RJ. It's RJ. It's RJ. It's RJ.

Oh, my God. Jack of all trades, RJ. Terzo and... Terzo.

In Iowa. What's up, Terzo? Terzo, represent us.

What's up, Terzo? All right. So I can speak to several of these things. TJ, I also wear a size 13, so I know the difficulty of it. But what I will say, though, previous to what Michelle said, is I've been able to stuff my socks, my underwear, and my shoes and have never had an issue. But I'm also TSA pre-check, so if you don't got that, you might want to look into it. Makes it a little bit easier and they're not gonna look at you funny. But I also really like just to carry on. I do not like checking bags.

I hate it when somebody has to check a bag. But three days? Come on, guys. You're kind of pushing it a little bit. Yeah. A little bit. So where do you land, Terzo?

Counselor. Terzo, when was the last time you were in Vegas? I went to Vegas on a regular when my cousin lived out there.

So I was probably out there every other weekend at times. Terzo, if I was a judge in this... This information is just insignificant. I need an answer. You need to witness. Terzo, what is your verdict? What do you say? Is this good or is it cool or it's not? Rich, I'm gonna ask you just one question.

What is your Uber rating? What does that have anything to do with anything? Because sometimes you take this stuff just a little too far and you're probably just picking on them just a little too much. So... Well, first of all, it's fun.

I think I'm gonna cut the hair right there with that one. All right. I mean, it is fun. This has been a real fun 20 minutes. All right. Thank you, Terzo.

Yeah, this has just been enjoyable. Thanks, Terzo. All right. See you, Terzo. Go Niners.

Okay. Also, Chris, there's people from other shows we've never met before. We're gonna meet them walking around.

We don't wanna look like our same bummy selves that we look. We're gonna see people. Dave in Nashville, Tennessee. What's up, Dave? Richie, is this Richie One Pants? That's his... Richie, excuse me.

Excuse me. No, no, no, Dave, Dave, I'll let you know a little bit. I'll peel the curtain back a little bit. I've got these jeans on, and in my carry-on, another pair of jeans. So it's Richie Two Pants, okay? And I've got suits for Thursday night and Friday, and I've got a suit for Sunday. I got three suits, and I shipped them.

Whoo! How do you get three suits in the carry? I didn't. I shipped them in advance.

I shipped them. So I could make sure, if I was in a group setting, I would just... I took this plus to the other, you know. Richie One Pants is fantastic.

That is truly one of my favorite... It's being written down right now. So Dave, what's your... Where do you... Should I take it to mean that you don't think it's checking a bag is a problem when it's in a group travel setting by referring to me as Richie One Pants? Oh, no, it depends. It depends.

No, I don't. I mean, three days, like everybody said, three days is pushing it. You know, you can't wear the same clothes every day, or can you? Oh, three days is pushing it in terms of... Carry-on. I just think... A tire. Oh, okay. A tire, yeah. I see.

And how are you gonna squeeze all that in one small carry-on? That's a little tough. Right. Okay. Thank you, Dave. By the way, great.

These collars have been phenomenal. Just so everyone knows, when I see the call log here, all right, when you check in, you give your name, you give your town, and then you discuss what you wanna talk about. Yeah, a little comment.

And Adam, our normal call screener, will put in a description of what you wanna talk about. So all I see here, this is RJ, Dennis in Long Beach, also wears size 13. Dennis, you there? You there, Dennis? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm here, Rich. First of all, I hate, as an Eagles fan, to agree with a Cowboys fan. Wow. Wow. What a star. Well, he's also a Sixers fan.

I still can't how he can be a Mets fan, a Sixers fan, a Dallas fan, when the teams all hate each other in those three cities. But that's a whole segment for you guys to go down the line. I tried to put that all together, Dennis.

Vancis has casual plus nice. I think that's a big factor. And the fact that you're shipping stuff is no different than checking a bag, because you've gotta wait for that to get to your hotel. Oh, it's already there.

You're gonna have to make a list for you, right? But what if they lose it? And on direct flight, it's not that big of a deal.

If you guys were transferring and stuff like that, I can see maybe they carry on. The final thing is, I'm also a large, I'm just kind of TJ size, so we're wearing two X's and you're wearing M's or S's, so that's a lot of room. Yeah, my clothes take up space.

And finally, does it matter if you're packing boxers or briefs as to how much room they take? No, it doesn't. You're right, Dennis. Thank you for the call. That's Dennis in Long Beach. Hey, Dennis LBC.

There you go. The head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders is chimed in now here on The Rich Eisen Show. It's great to see. I have not seen this man in forever and a day. I think I fired up Giants Cam for him once upon a time, long time ago.

The head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, courtesy of the Circle K campaign, Antonio Pierce. Good to see you, Antonio. How you been? Rich, it's been too long, man.

It's been too long. I've been good. Yeah, you sure have.

You sure have. Before I get to the here and now, I need your help because I've got my crew here. We're coming to Vegas. We're on a flight. We're coming. We're coming.

Okay. And it's a group trip. And most of these guys are staying just three nights. And some of them are checking bags. And some of us are carrying on, Antonio. And I think that's unfair for those checking bags to check bags.

And I'd leave it to you to respond. What do you got? I mean, where do you do that? I've never seen that before. You don't check bags. You need a backpack.

It's like Door to Explorer, get your backpack on. Don't put a lot in there. Less is more when you're in Vegas. Less is more, guys.

Remember that. Backpack. Backpack. Backpack. Backpack. But Antonio, we got... We can take that for what it's worth.

Antonio, we got show fits, and then we got Vegas fits. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Coach, plus I need to have a few pair of sneakers. You know that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, man.

Less is more in Vegas. Actually, it's raining right now. So you want to be indoors. There's no pool parties.

So don't worry about that right now. That's what you told me, less clothing at the pool parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little less clothing.

Just keep it like, yeah, listen. Vegas, less is more at the big lot. Nobody knows. Have you ever been in a situation where the buses get held up because your teammates check the bag or something like that? Has that ever happened, Antonio? No.

No. We would probably leave them and just make them take a cab or an Uber. You have to figure that out this way.

But train away from nobody. You know how that works, bitch. Oh, yeah. Oh, trust me. I know that. All right.

Let's get down to it here. Congratulations on the gig, Antonio. Congratulations on that. What is the first thing when you took over? What is the first order of business that you conducted that you think set the tone for what came to be and you getting this job with the Raiders? Buy in.

Buy in from the entire building. I knew for the most part just having my relationships with the players, what was going on, what was the pulse was of the team, what was good, what was bad. So, boom, take care of the players. Then I had to unite our staff.

Get us going. I mean, it was a dark day that day. It's never good when you lose a fellow coach. It doesn't matter what line of business and what we feel or think about that person, that lives are being affected there. So that was tough. But then one thing I wanted to make sure that we did as an organization was that we had entire buy in from the first floor, the second floor, the third floor. People behind the scenes, mopping, taking out the trash, people in the kitchen, strength staff, business, marketing, advertisement, legal.

It didn't matter. We need the entire buy in to do what we were about to do for the next nine weeks. And all I did was walk around after we spoke with our staff and our coach and our players, was go through the entire floor with Sandra Morgan-Douglas along with Chad Kelly at the time. And we did that for everybody and gave them our vision, gave them what it's like, what we wanted to see the building be like going forward. And what I wanted was people enjoying going to work, loving what they do.

It's hard in the National Football League to do what we do and then do it miserable and not enjoy the fruits of the labor and the hard work in the process. And I just told them, hopefully you stick with me. You understand where I'm going. There was no hidden agenda.

Only thing I want to do is win and get this organization back to where it needs to be. But I mean, obviously that's a philosophy. But like what actual nuts and bolts did you do to start creating that philosophy? You know, people, relationships, you know, Rich, it started, the crazy part about it, it didn't start that day.

It didn't start on November 1st. It started when I walked in that door on February 15th. You know, I made my presence known throughout the building. You know, just because I was a linebacker coach at the time, that didn't mean I couldn't go speak to people. I couldn't get to ask people how their day was going or any of what their concerns were. How can we be better at this organization?

What can I do to help them? So that started back in 2022, you know, when I first got to the Raiders. And more importantly, I told them what the Raiders organization meant to me growing up and what my vision will be. And then I said, I want everybody to come here. We need to adapt each other up. We need to love each other up.

I'm tired when we walk through the concourse or through the hallways, we don't speak to one another. God damn, say hello. Give me a smile. You know what I mean? If you don't, hey, how you doing?

And you might not even say no, but give me a nod. And I just think that process started the building of our building of us growing together as one. And then we had to go on the field and we worked. What we do the first day when I got when I got the job, we were on the field, on the practice field and put pads on and we banged. We banged. Fifteen straight players.

No water break, little old school training camp in November. Go figure. But I need to get we need to get that anger out. We need to get all that emotion out of us. And now let's go play football. And again, obviously, you know, that first game will be very emotional and it was with the Giants. But after that, now we are going to play football. And I think our guys did just that.

Antonio Pierce, the twenty third head coach in the history of the Raiders right here on the Rich Eisen show. And so that Christmas game against the Chiefs, do you think that was the the result that kind of sealed the deal for you to get the gig full time? Because it felt like that to me, the way that the team played. And obviously, we know the Chiefs are in your building trying to win the Super Bowl this weekend. What do you think?

I think so. I think that really I mean, that was a that was a unique way to win the game. We didn't complete a pass after the first quarter. We did it kind of old school defense, special teams, hard nose, physicality, ill intent, a mindset. We went in there trying to beat the bullies. We wanted to overwhelm the Chiefs with our presence. We wanted them to feel us, even if it wasn't physically, to feel us mentally, emotionally. We wanted to wear on them what they have done to other teams.

The Chiefs have played a lot of football in the last four years. Right. And at that point, you could tell they were kind of like, eh, and this is going to be a cakewalk. And we went in with a whole different mentality. It was going to be a straight street fight and we were going to make it ugly. We were going to make it grimey.

We were going to talk smack to them. We was going to be in their face, but we were going to play the game the right way. If you look at that game, when I was completing the passes the first quarter, we didn't turn the football over, nor did we have any penalties. So it was a clean, technical, fundamental game for us. Again, it wasn't probably pretty from the passing standpoint, but we were physical at the end of the game when we got in that four minute mode and not allow them to have the ball back at the end of the game. So if the Niners reached out and said, hey, what were you able to do?

Obviously film Eye in the Sky doesn't lie, but you were right there on the sideline. What would you tell them to have tried to affect to try and win this game on Sunday against the Chiefs? It's all about the quarterback. It's all about the quarterback. It's about getting to Patrick, ultimate competitor.

We have the utmost respect for him. But you get after Patrick Mahomes, both mentally, physically, and emotionally. You constantly harass him. You try to do your best to keep him in the pocket and not have those lanes to step up.

Then you got to hit 87 at all means necessary. You got to disrupt. You got to frustrate him. You got to get in his head, however it may be.

You got to do whatever it takes to not allow 87 to have an easy day. Like what we saw in the conference championship game with him just being open a lot of times throughout that game, that's something that we wouldn't want to do. We would not want to play zone around him and allow him to find windows because he's always going to be right in zone coverage. I think the last part when you looked at us and the way we played is you got to stop the run. We wanted him one dimension.

You see, I kind of started backwards. Most teams would say stop the run first. But no, we wanted to go right after the Snakes' head, and that was Patrick Mahomes to get after him. So, once we did that, that followed in with Kelsey and then stopping the run game. And now, we put four DNs out there and we just rushed the passer like no other.

And we wanted to be relentless doing that for 60 minutes. So, you mentioned the quarterback right there, Antonio Pierce. Is your quarterback starter week one currently on your roster, do you think, right now? I think Aiden O'Connell put himself in a position that whoever we bring in, he should bat.

I'm all about competition. That would take care of itself, Rich, but Aiden O'Connell, as the season went along, I thought he did an outstanding job of taking care of the football, managing the game, and doing what we asked him to do. I said it in one of my presses, I didn't need Aiden to go out there and win a game. I didn't need him to throw for 400 yards and put up these magical numbers. I just needed him to play to our strength.

At that time of the season, at the end, our strength was decent. So Aiden did just that. Now, we made some change on the offensive side of the ball, the offensive coordinator and our staff, we'll continue to grow our offense. And I'm sure, as you know, we're bringing a quarterback in some capacity and we're going to let those guys battle. But I'll tell you one thing about Aiden, he's a competitor, he's smart.

I don't think he's going to go down without a fight and we'll let the best man win. If I went down the road to Long Beach Poly in 2017 and told the head coach, you're going to be the coach of the Raiders in seven years, what would he have said to me? At that point in time? And you just talk about Antonio Peters, I said, you're probably right.

You're probably right. I mean, you got to start somewhere. I could have went to the NFL. I chose not to, even though I was working on television.

I had makeup on, talked in front of a mic with a red dot. When I chose to press play and press go into the National Football League, I knew what my mind was and what I wanted to do. And I was either a coordinator or a head coach. And after the day, I'm used to being a leader, leader of men, leading an organization.

I'm a winner. So to me, that's not far fetched. It might be to other people, but if you know my life and you've been around me, I don't think you're surprised.

Maybe from the outside, oh my God, it's a linebacker coach. He don't know what the hell he's doing. Cool.

Let's keep watching. Did Snoop ever draw a play up for you? No, he did. Snoop came out there. We did a lot of stuff with Snoop. I don't know, but he did a hell of a job with us. Just giving back. Had a big deal with Adidas. He was always around doing community service and charitable events for us. Obviously a good friend, somebody I looked up to as far as his success in his career.

But look, it's like when you've got cool friends that's rappers and kind of the coolest dudes, you know, and hanging out with your boys, you know, that's kind of cool. Tell me about the Circle K campaign, coach, what you're doing with them. Yeah, well, listen, Circle K, just like me, you talked Rich about myself, kind of underdog role, right?

So a lot of unsung heroes behind this, a lot of people behind the scenes that go unnoticed. But you know, I got all black on Rich. And as you look, this is going to be the only red that I touch, okay? Circle K, all right? The city is still black, okay?

Still silver and black. But me and Circle K teamed up, but I normally have like a lot of espresso and coffee, but you know, more important, I got about $250 on this bad boy right here, okay? I'll go down the strip here in a second, Las Vegas Boulevard, you're going to see it on my social media. I'm going to hand this bad boy out, $250, you know, let people enjoy some coffee just like myself at Circle K. But listen, it's all about giving back into the community, Las Vegas community, being a head coach, I understand what it's like to give back, being in urban Los Angeles growing up, it's all about that. Me and this team right here, we're going to be friends for quite a while.

Just Rich, just this team, not the other teams that's playing, you know, down the street. Understood. Understood. I like that. Very good. So back in the day, if you had celebrated a win by lighting up a cigar in the locker room, what would Tom Coughlin have said to that, Antonio? Oh my God.

Oh yeah, that was amazing. So here we go. So when we had our first win against the Giants, Coughlin wasn't there. We had already been talking throughout the week and I got a text message as soon as I went in my office, whose idea was that?

Where did you come up with this kind of stuff, AP? I said, coach, you know, the team, the guys are talking, coach is legal though. But we don't do that. Right, coach? We don't do it, but the Raiders do.

That's what we do as Raiders. So, you know, I talked about the coach, he can't find me. I wasn't late.

I was on time every one. He's good now. He just doesn't smoke cigars. So I just give him one nice and lit up and he just lets me watch. I love it. So I had no idea where that answer was going to go. So you're saying that Tom Coughlin saw the cigars being lit up and texted you? Is that what you're saying? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

That's okay. That's the great balance between AP and coach Coughlin. And that's how we were able to work all those years when we were together with the Giants. Oh my gosh. That is so funny. Hey, congrats on the gig, Antonio.

Congrats on it. Don't be a stranger. You know, we're on, this show's on in Vegas on Raider nation radio every day. So we're good.

I got you rich, but anybody that's packing bags, they can't get in the car, only backpacks only. Antonio Pierce. Come on, coach.

That is correct. Hey, do not push back or otherwise this man told Tom Coughlin to pound sand on his text chain. Get out of here. Fantastic. Take care of yourself, Antonio. We'll see you soon.

Hope to run into you. Here you go. There's a head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. Coughlin saw it. Hey, whose idea was that?

Coach, it was Max Crosby's idea and he lit up and Mark Davis was there and we just beat the Giants. It's all good. Can't find me. It's all funny. All right. We'll take a break.

844-204 rich number to dial. But guess what? We've got overreaction Monday on a Tuesday as we go out the door for our Wednesday through Friday shows in Vegas.

Over your left shoulder. I couldn't help but notice there's Montana, you know, over your right shoulder, there's Dwight Clark reaching out for a pass from Montana. Have you spoken to Montana? You got any relationship with him at all?

A little bit. I spoke to him actually at the Super Bowl event. It was the first time I saw him.

The last time he was in, I think, Santa Clara, he was here for the Chiefs game last year. I wasn't playing at the time, so I didn't really have an opportunity to talk to him. But when I have talked to him, he's been nothing but great. He's supported, you know, this team and how I've played and stuff.

And so just to be able to hear him, you know, sort of show some gratitude and stuff for me. It's like, dude, that is a legend. That's the guy. That's the guy. You know, when you look at the 49er logo, that's who you think of.

So what an honor. And what about young? What about Steve Young? Yeah, he's been around to spoke to him the Sunday night game, actually, he's on the field for a little bit. And how, you know, he's very just really nice about everything. He's like, dude, how you handle everything. Your decision making and your process and he goes, I want to sit down and talk to you more about it. So just to know that, you know, he has our back to it's, that's awesome, man.

It's like a dream, too. But what an honor for both of those guys to, you know, love what we're doing a few minutes I have left with you. How do you respond to those who say you're just a product of the system there, the coach and the guys around you, and all you're doing is basically rolling the balls out and not making mistakes?

How do you respond to that rock man? I would just say, you know, I don't really care in a sense, you know, I, I just want to win. I want to help this team when people can say what they want. That's cool. I just want to help this team win and reach our goals.

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AutoZone. Let's get to it. Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Hey, let's go guys breaking into the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Guess what? Somebody we are completely not expecting is going to score a touchdown in the big game. Oh, I'll take that. I think that's not an overreaction.

That always happens. Who would that be? Who would that be? Justin Watson. How about the what? Uh, right, uh, Juwan Jennings. Use check would. Okay.

We're not thinking of him either. Sure. I'll take. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I'm with you. Yeah.

I'm with you. Yeah. Sure. So like, uh, anybody who's, can you, can you prop that one too? Oh yeah. You can.

Oh yeah. How does somebody, how do you do somebody nobody's ever heard of? I'll show you when we get there.

I don't care to know. Okay. There's apps. How to do it.

There's apps. Okay. I'll show you once you got it. How about this one? We were talking about Brock Purdy earlier today with, uh, you know, KB and you started the show with it. If the 49ers wins Superbowl, Brock Purdy will be more on the Brady path than Patrick Mahomes. Well, um, I'll push back on this, that they're, they're, they're Brady path means that you can get to where Brady is.

And so, and his story is no, again, it's funny. This is what we were talking about in the kitchen while it was started pouring rain over the weekend, Susie and I, and, and as, as she was forming what she wanted to say on what the football is that Mahomes yeah, is the Brady in this equation because he can go back to back and he can start his career in such a way at age 20 by age 28 that's better than Brady's. But Purdy was drafted late, got his, got his gig because he, somebody got injured. When he comes off in year two, he wins the Superbowl, right?

So he could start his career like Brady, but to be on a path, Mahomes is more on the path. You know, let's see, let's see, let's see what happens. So I'll push back on an overreaction there. What else?

All right. How about this one next year? Some team is going to try and have Belicheck pull a doc rivers, meaning in the mid, like an interim, bring him in the middle of the season. Hey bill, come save the day. We got a good team, but we're off to a bad start. Come and save the day.

We've not thought about that. He looms over the process of somebody that thinks that they're, you know, get off to a one and four start. See a Mike bill come save the day. Look, I mean, he's already going to be there as DC. So he'd have to be named the coach fully baked, fully baked, five year contract, that sort of thing.

He's fully baked, Chris, isn't it like so much harder to do in football? It sure is. Yeah, yeah. It sure is. By the way. Great idea. Total overreaction.

I love that, that he's sitting at home looming over a mid season pickup. Yeah. Wow.

That's interesting. What if Buffalo's two and five dude? Look at him. Look at him speaking awfulness into existence, Hoskins, you know, you want it all right. Multiple teams next year are going to go worse.

The first win the division. I I'll take that. I don't think that's an overreaction either.

I don't think that's an overreaction at all. I thought you might push back. No, no, no. Uh, we're in the chargers. Worst. Right. Chargers are worse.

Okay. I'm looking at Bengals. Bengals are good one.

Look AFC South. Who the hell knows? Titans. Why not? Sure.

Why not? Uh, bears. Uh, it's entirely possible. Possible. Patriots.

Yeah, probably not. Okay. Trying to be realistic. We're talking about the Patriots trading down already. Number three.

What else? Six quarterbacks, Rich. One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four, five. First round? Going in the first round. That's no way. That's absurd. Ridiculous.

I object. Phoenix. McCarthy.

Dude. And Pettis. Someone trades up to 31 to get Pettis. Six is nuts. There's still too many, too many good players outside of the quarterback position for six to be pushed into the first round.

That's nuts. I'll push back on that as an overreaction. All right. Let's go to NBA real quick. LeBron. Oh, don't ask me about the front office moves.

Sure, buddy. He sounds like that. LeBron is going to end his career with the Knicks. That's another reaction. Get out of here.

So stupid. End his career with the Knicks, huh? Why the towel?

Why the Knicks colored shoes? All this flirting. He's like, nah, I don't know what I want to do. Hey, Bronny.

Yeah. End his career with the Knicks. He know he wants to play there.

Where he at? And if he wins the title, boom. Instant statue. Okay. Um, I don't think so. But good one. You came up with some really good ones off the wall. I'll push back on that. Well done, Chris. Thanks, Rich. Good job. All right. We're out the door. We're going to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Some of us are going with a rolling. Yeah. Yep.

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