One of the most significant arguments against Coach Antonio Pierce’s candidacy for the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coaching job earlier this offseason was his lack of experience as a head coach in the National Football League. To combat that weakness, Pierce surrounded himself with decades of coaching experience from the NFL and college football history.
Raiders assistant head coach and former Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis and Coach Pierce have a long history together. When Pierce was looking for coaches to fill out his staff, he brought in Coach Lewis as a trusted source of knowledge and head coaching experience. Lewis said when he was a coach and Pierce was a player in the league, he didn’t know that Pierce would eventually become a coach in the NFL. However, Coach Lewis did see the same passion and drive from Pierce as a player that he now sees in Pierce as a coach.
"Well, I don't know that then,” Lewis said. “I knew he was driven as a player. And I said that to him. I guess it was 2021 at ASU when he became the coordinator, and we flipped roles, and I went back off the field. “He came to me during the bye week, and he said, 'How am I doing?' I said, 'Man, you're doing really good, but you also need to take some time for yourself and take a deep breath as well,' but he's so driven, and I said, 'That's how you became such a great player is you're just so driven.
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