The Las Vegas Raiders are moving their training camp to California this season, and coach Antonio Pierce says the move was about more than what meets the eye.
The Costa Mesa City Council unanimously approved the Las Vegas Raiders' move of this year’s training camp to the Jack Hammett Sports Complex. There will be many benefits for the Raiders in making the move. The move puts the team closer to many of their fans, and there will be much cooler temperatures in Costa Mesa than in Las Vegas during the summer.
However, for Coach Antonio Pierce, the move provides more benefits than connecting fans or weather. When Pierce was a linebacker in the National Football League, he and his teammates regularly left the training facilities during training camp. For Pierce, the move to Costa Mesa allows his team to get quality time together outside the regular daily routines built by spending so much time in the same environment daily.“When I played in the National Football League, we never stayed at our facility.
Pierce expects the change of scenery to help the players focus solely on football and perfecting their craft this offseason. He’s looking forward to the team building the chemistry they lacked during the early part of last season. Pierce hopes the team can build upon the progress they made as a team after he took over the helm halfway through last season.“I told us I want us to be the tightest group of Raiders that hopefully this organization has seen.
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