{"id":475874,"date":"2024-01-13T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475874"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:17:34","slug":"pierce-leading-candidate-to-become-raiders-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pierce-leading-candidate-to-become-raiders-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce leading candidate to become Raiders&#8217; head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim manager Antonio Pierce is now the leading candidate to become the full-time boss of the Las Vegas Raiders, with the support of the crucial footballers there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Safe to say: The players are united around Antonio Pierce. Led by Maxx Crosby, that\u2019s been communicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Raiders<\/a> owner Mark Davis.<\/p>\n<p>But if someone other than Antonio Pierce is the choice, Crosby\u2019s trade request would have wide-ranging ramifications. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D61lDBQGvr\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/D61lDBQGvr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1746160986220909048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There will be other candidates for the franchise\u2019s owner, Mark Davis, to consider, but as how things stand at the moment, it would be a huge surprise if Pierce is not the final choice.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas has not done any other head-coaching interviews. They think about Michigan boss Jim Harbaugh, but the favorite remains Antonio. However, Pierce will have an interview with Tennessee today.<\/p>\n<p>After the team\u2019s campaign-ending 27-14 win against the Denver Broncos, owner Davis shared with the media that he is really happy with what the interim coach did in leading the Raiders to a 5-4 record at the helm after replacing Josh McDaniels.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas superstar Davante Adams claimed that he would &#8220;run through a wall for Pierce.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim manager Antonio Pierce is now the leading candidate to become the full-time boss of the Las Vegas Raiders, with the support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":475875,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22550,16755,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22551,18120,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Antonio is the favorite to become the next Las Vegas manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475878,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475874\/revisions\/475878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475874"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475874"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}